A Comparative Study of the SMAP Passive Soil Moisture Product with Existing Satellite-Based Soil Moisture Products

IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing

Volumn 55, Issue 5, 2017, Pages 2959-2971

  Burgin, Mariko S ^a   Colliander, Andreas ^a   Njoku, Eni G ^a   Chan, Steven K ^a   Cabot, Francois ^b   Kerr, Yann H ^b   Bindlish, Rajat ^d   Jackson, Thomas J ^c   Entekhabi, Dara ^e   Yueh, Simon H ^a  

^a CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^b CNES   (France)

^c NASA GODDARD SPACE FLIGHT CENTER   (United States)

^d AGRICULTURAL RESEARCH SERVICE   (United States)

^e MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

Level 2 radiometer only soil moisture product (L2 SM P); microwave remote sensing; soil moisture; Soil Moisture Active Passive (SMAP); Soil Moisture and Ocean Salinity (SMOS)

Indexed keywords

METEOROLOGICAL INSTRUMENTS; MOISTURE; NASA; RADIOMETERS; SOIL SURVEYS; SOILS;

ADVANCED MICROWAVE SCANNING RADIOMETER; BRIGHTNESS TEMPERATURES; CALIBRATION AND VALIDATIONS; COMPARATIVE STUDIES; ROOT MEAN SQUARE DIFFERENCES; SATELLITE MISSION; SOIL MOISTURE ACTIVE PASSIVE (SMAP); SOIL MOISTURE AND OCEAN SALINITY (SMOS);

SOIL MOISTURE;

AMSR-E; AQUARIUS; ASCAT; BRIGHTNESS TEMPERATURE; CALIBRATION; COMPARATIVE STUDY; FREEZE-THAW CYCLE; RADIOMETER; REMOTE SENSING; SATELLITE ALTIMETRY; SATELLITE MISSION; SMOS; SOIL MOISTURE;

EID: 85012977594     PISSN: 01962892     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TGRS.2017.2656859     Document Type: Article

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