Imaging · collection · 2026
FireSense: Soil and Live Fuel Moisture Content, Sedgwick Reserve, CA, USA, 2023
Listed in NASA Earthdata CMR and NASA Data Portal — shown once because both records carry DOI 10.3334/ornldaac/2504
This dataset provides pre-fire soil moisture and soil temperature profiles, and Live Fuel Moisture Content (LFMC) of six vegetation species collected at Sedgwick Reserve in Santa Barbara County, California, between July 20 and October 2, 2023.
Description
Soil moisture and soil temperature were measured using a METER TEROS 11 probe at standardized depths within soil pits dug near the time-of-flight overpass. LFMC for six plant species were collected via repeat visits to the same locations.
Plant species include QUDO = Quercus douglasii (Blue Oak), QUAG = Quercus agrifolia (Coast Live Oak), SALE = Salvia leucophylla (Purple Sage), ARCA = Artemisia californica (California Sagebrush), PISA = Pinus sabiniana (California gray pine), and BUCK = Eriogonum fasciculatum (California Buckwheat). LFMC is computed as: ((wet weight - dry weight)/ dry weight)*100. These measurements capture pre-fire baseline conditions and serve as a robust ground truth for calibrating airborne remote sensing instruments such as NASA's Scanning L-band Active Passive (SLAP) and Uninhabited Aerial Vehicle Synthetic Aperture Radar (UAVSAR).
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- Data set Landing Page DOI URL doi.org/10.3334/ornldaac/2504 ↗
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- ORNL DAAC Data Set Documentation data.ornldaac.earthdata.nasa.gov/public/firesense/FS_SoilMoisture_T_SantaBarb_CA/comp/FS_SoilMo… ↗
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- Original Metadata cmr.earthdata.nasa.gov/search/concepts/C4219861950-ORNL_CLOUD.iso19115 ↗
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- Collection Bundle URL data.ornldaac.earthdata.nasa.gov/protected/bundle/FS_SoilMoisture_T_SantaBarb_CA_2504.zip ↗
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Where it is published
- NASA Data Portal dataset page data.nasa.gov/dataset/firesense-soil-and-live-fuel-moisture-content-sedgwick… ↗
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Catalogue records · 3
- CMR UMM-JSON cmr.earthdata.nasa.gov/search/concepts/C4219861950-ORNL_CLOUD.umm_json ↗
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- CKAN API data.nasa.gov/api/3/action/package_show?id=6579cd1b-7e1d-4629-b92f-704c62dfa… ↗
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- CMR record cmr.earthdata.nasa.gov/search/concepts/C4219861950-ORNL_CLOUD.html ↗
catalogue entry · from NASA CMR
Topics
- Stated by source
- FIELD SURVEYS · SOIL MOISTURE PROBE · Soil Moisture/Water Content · Soil Temperature · SOIL TEMPERATURE PROBE · SURVEYING TOOLS · Vegetation Species · Vegetation Water Potential · Wildland Fuels
- From keywords
- Astronomy & Astrophysics · Earth & Environmental Science · Life Sciences · Ocean & Atmospheric Science · Physics
- Inferred from text
- Forestry sciences 69% · Satellite remote sensing 65% · Text 75%
Provenance · 2 source records, 27 field assertions
| Source | Key | Last seen | Raw |
|---|---|---|---|
| NASA Earthdata CMR | C4219861950-ORNL_CLOUD | 8 d ago | JSON v1 |
| NASA Data Portal | 6579cd1b-7e1d-4629-b92f-704c62dfa51c | 5 d ago | JSON v1 |
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| concepts[field].local:field:astronomy | mapping · data nasa gov | connector:data_nasa_gov@1.0.0 | |
| concepts[field].local:field:earth-environmental | mapping · data nasa gov | connector:data_nasa_gov@1.0.0 | |
| concepts[field].local:field:life-sciences | mapping · data nasa gov | connector:data_nasa_gov@1.0.0 | |
| concepts[field].local:field:ocean-atmospheric | mapping · data nasa gov | connector:data_nasa_gov@1.0.0 | |
| concepts[field].local:field:physics | mapping · data nasa gov | connector:data_nasa_gov@1.0.0 | |
| concepts[instrument].gcmd_instrument:soil-moisture-probe | source · NASA CMR | connector:nasa_cmr@1.0.0 | |
| concepts[instrument].gcmd_instrument:soil-temperature-probe | source · NASA CMR | connector:nasa_cmr@1.0.0 | |
| concepts[instrument].gcmd_instrument:surveying-tools | source · NASA CMR | connector:nasa_cmr@1.0.0 | |
| concepts[measured_variable].gcmd:earth-science/biosphere/ecological-dynamics/fire-ecology/wildland-fuels | source · NASA CMR | connector:nasa_cmr@1.0.0 | |
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| concepts[measured_variable].gcmd:earth-science/biosphere/vegetation/vegetation-water-potential | source · NASA CMR | connector:nasa_cmr@1.0.0 | |
| concepts[measured_variable].gcmd:earth-science/land-surface/soils/soil-moisture-water-content | source · NASA CMR | connector:nasa_cmr@1.0.0 | |
| concepts[measured_variable].gcmd:earth-science/land-surface/soils/soil-temperature | source · NASA CMR | connector:nasa_cmr@1.0.0 | |
| concepts[modality].local:modality:remote-sensing | enrichment · NASA CMR | keyword-concept-rules@1.0.0 | title+description (65%) |
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| concepts[platform].gcmd_platform:field-surveys | source · NASA CMR | connector:nasa_cmr@1.0.0 | |
| created_date | source · NASA CMR | connector:nasa_cmr@1.0.0 | |
| description | source · NASA CMR | connector:nasa_cmr@1.0.0 | /umm/Abstract |
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