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A Strategy for the National Coordinated Soil Moisture Monitoring Network
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2021
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Alternative Title:Coordinated, High-Quality, Nationwide Soil Moisture Information for the Public Good
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Description:Soil moisture4 is a critical land surface parameter affecting a wide variety of economically and environmentally important processes. From agricultural monitoring, to weather prediction, to drought and flood forecasting, the value of soil moisture metrics is undeniable. At the same time, the means and methods of monitoring soil moisture are undergoing rapid growth and innovation with the advent of new in situ and proximal sensors, new data telemetry methods, and new remote sensing technologies to provide broad and accurate soil moisture estimates. Many nations have established soil moisture sensing networks, including the United States, which has a prolific but uncoordinated collection of monitoring networks at the national, state, and local levels. There is currently no national strategy for the development, deployment, and maintenance of soil moisture monitoring networks. The absence of a coherent strategy leads to a host of problems including many states lacking adequate monitoring, multiple data sets which are not standardized or directly comparable, and no clear plan for how best to target investments to improve the overall monitoring infrastructure. Because of these deficiencies, the United States has not yet capitalized on the transformative potential of nationwide, coordinated in situ soil moisture observations for applications such as improved drought monitoring, water resource management, and fire danger ratings.
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