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<br />'" <br />w <br />00 <br />00 <br /> <br />The installation of an automated instrumentation site (Popcorn trade name) in <br />the Pelican Lake area in 1982 is a new SCS endeavor to expand the SNOTEL (Snow <br />Telementry) data collection system. Essentially, the "popcorn" site field <br />installation will be used' to automatically collect field data [0 be <br />transmitted via telecommunication' to the SNOTEL remote sensing network. The <br />SNOTEL network, presently used for snow surveys and water (snow-melt) <br />forecasting in the West, then transmits field data to computer access <br />terminals where data can be recorded, stored, processed and analyzed. <br /> <br />~);IT;'1 <br />.:......;..... <br />',:'."".'- <br /> <br />The Popcorn site will collect data which influence evapo-transpiration rates <br />used in irrigation water management SCheduling. The unit will collect and <br />transmit hourly readings on wind run, solar radiation, precipitation, daily <br />maximum-minimum-mean temperature, humidity, soil moisture, and soil <br />temperature. Instrumentation of flow measuring devices will also be a part of, <br />the automated data collection process. The information will be used as a part <br />of 'the monitoring program and will also be used to assist with better <br />irrigation scheduling. <br /> <br />The M&E plans have been developed with a broad cross-section of State and <br />Federal interagency inputs. The activities are to be coordinated with other <br />agencies to avoid duplication and to assure that the data collection and, <br />analysis will be complementary to the monitoring efforts of others. <br /> <br />:' .~. ';;~~i:. <br />.....'.":. <br />~~~:.:;:.:;.~:J <br /> <br />:.-." <br /> <br />20 <br />