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The newly developed cosmic-ray probe (CRP) method for measuring area-average soil moisture at the hectometer horizontal scale was tested in the 2012 observation campaign of the Heihe Watershed Allied Telemetry Experimental Research (HiWATER) in the irrigated cropland area of Zhangye Oasis. As compared with the traditional point observation, data analysis shows that the CRP could measure the real areal...