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LTAR Upper Mississippi River Basin - Morris - Swan Lake Research Farm Phenocam

NAL Geospatial Catalog
    The PhenoCam network is collecting color and near infrared images year-round using cameras in fixed positions on agricultural lands including a site located on the Swan Lake Research Farm. The network effort was initiated in 2015 at this long-term, plot-scale research site. The camera at the research farm on focused a plot-scale, replicated research study that was established in 1997 to assess the long-term impacts of various tillage management options on soil organic carbon

    Swan Lake Research Farm Weather Station LTAR UMRB-Morris Minnesota

      The United States Department of Agriculture-Agricultural Research Service (USDA-ARS) North Central Soil Conservation Research Laboratory - Soil Management Unit established a weather data collection system at the Swan Lake Research Farm in 1997. Weather data collected include wind speed and direction, barometric pressure, relative humidity, air temperature, soil temperatures, soil heat flux, solar radiation, photosynthetic active radiation, and precipitation. In 2015 the site became part of the Long Term Agroecosystem Research (LTAR) project. The Swan Lake Research Farm is located in Stevens County Minnesota, in the Upper Mississippi River Basin (UMRB) watershed.

      Long-Term Agroecosystem Research Network regions, 2018 version

        The Long-Term Agroecosystem Research Network, consisting of 18+ research locations, is conducting research on the sustainable intensification of agroecosystems. To enable coordinated network level research, a spatial framework is required to facilitate analysis. This dataset contains a geodatabase of three new maps describing regional boundaries for the LTAR Network titled "Long-Term Agroecosystem Research Network regions, 2018 version.”

        Long-Term Agricultural Research (LTAR) network - Meteorological Station - Upper Mississippi River Basin - St. Paul

          The United States Department of Agriculture - Agricultural Research Service (USDA-ARS) Soil and Water Management Research Unit established a meteorological data collection system at the Rosemount Research and Outreach Center in 2003. In 2015 the site became part of the Long-Term Agroecosystem Research (LTAR) network. The site is located in Dakota County Minnesota in the Upper Mississippi River Basin (UMRB) watershed. Data are recorded at 15-minute intervals

          US Department of Agriculture Soil Climate Analysis Network (SCAN) Site 2031 data, Ames, Iowa

          NAL Geospatial Catalog
            This dataset contains air temperature, relative humidity, precipitation, solar radiation, wind speed, soil temperature, and soil moisture data from the Ames Soil Climate Analysis Network (SCAN) site 2031 in Boone County, Iowa. The dataset links to a National Resources Conservation Service data request form, from which available data can be queried. The data collection site is at an elevation of 1073 feet; data has been continuously collected there since 2001-09-23.