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Validation of SMAP surface soil moisture products with core validation sites
Andreas Colliander,Thomas J. Jackson,Rajat Bindlish,S. Chan,Narendra N. Das,Seung-Bum Kim,Michael H. Cosh,R. S. Dunbar,Lenny Dang,L. Pashaian,Jun Asanuma,Kentaro Aida,Aaron A. Berg,Tracy Rowlandson,David D. Bosch,Todd G. Caldwell,Kelly K. Caylor,David C. Goodrich,H. K. Al Jassar,Ernesto Lopez-Baeza,José Martínez-Fernández,A. Gonzalez-Zamora,Stan Livingston,H. McNairn,A. Pacheco,Mahta Moghaddam,Carsten Montzka,Claudia Notarnicola,Georg Niedrist,Thierry Pellarin,John H. Prueger,Jouni Pulliainen,Kimmo Rautiainen,J. Ramos,Mark S. Seyfried,Patrick J. Starks,Zhongbo Su,Yijian Zeng,R. van der Velde,M. Thibeault,Wouter Dorigo,Mariette Vreugdenhil,Jeffrey P. Walker,Xiaoling Wu,Alessandra Monerris,Peggy O'Neill,Dara Entekhabi,Eni G. Njoku,Simon Yueh +48 more
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The NASA Soil Moisture Active Passive (SMAP) mission has utilized a set of core validation sites as the primary methodology in assessing the soil moisture retrieval algorithm performance as mentioned in this paper.About:
This article is published in Remote Sensing of Environment.The article was published on 2017-03-15. It has received 487 citations till now.read more
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ESA CCI Soil Moisture for improved Earth system understanding : State-of-the art and future directions
Wouter Dorigo,Wolfgang Wagner,Clément Albergel,Franziska Albrecht,Gianpaolo Balsamo,Luca Brocca,Daniel Chung,Martin Ertl,Matthias Forkel,Alexander Gruber,E. M. Haas,P. D. Hamer,Martin Hirschi,Jaakko Ikonen,Richard de Jeu,R. Kidd,William Lahoz,Yi Y. Liu,Diego G. Miralles,Diego G. Miralles,Thomas Mistelbauer,Nadine Nicolai-Shaw,Robert Parinussa,Chiara Pratola,Chiara Pratola,Christoph Reimer,Robin van der Schalie,Sonia I. Seneviratne,Tuomo Smolander,Pascal Lecomte +29 more
TL;DR: The European Space Agency (ESA) released the first multi-decadal, global satellite-observed soil moisture (SM) dataset as part of its Climate Change Initiative (CCI) program.
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Ground, Proximal, and Satellite Remote Sensing of Soil Moisture
Ebrahim Babaeian,Morteza Sadeghi,Scott B. Jones,Carsten Montzka,Harry Vereecken,Markus Tuller +5 more
TL;DR: Soil moisture (SM) is a key hydrologic state variable that is of significant importance for numerous Earth and environmental science applications that directly impact the global environment and human society.
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Development and assessment of the SMAP enhanced passive soil moisture product
S. Chan,Rajat Bindlish,Peggy O'Neill,Thomas J. Jackson,E. Njoku,Scott Dunbar,Julian Chaubell,Jeffrey R. Piepmeier,Simon Yueh,Dara Entekhabi,Andreas Colliander,Fan Chen,Michael H. Cosh,Todd G. Caldwell,Jeffrey P. Walker,Aaron A. Berg,H. McNairn,M. Thibeault,José Martínez-Fernández,F. Uldall,Mark S. Seyfried,David D. Bosch,Patrick J. Starks,C. Holifield Collins,John H. Prueger,R. van der Velde,Jun Asanuma,Michael A. Palecki,Eric E. Small,Marek Zreda,Jean-Christophe Calvet,Wade T. Crow,Y. H. Kerr +32 more
TL;DR: This article covers the development and assessment of the SMAP Level 2 Enhanced Passive Soil Moisture Product (L2_SM_P_E) and affirmed that the Single Channel Algorithm using the V-polarized TB channel (SCA-V) delivered the best retrieval performance among the various algorithms implemented for L2-SM-P, a result similar to a previous assessment.
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Remote sensing for drought monitoring & impact assessment: Progress, past challenges and future opportunities
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors chart the rise of remote sensing for drought monitoring, examining key milestones and technologies for assessing meteorological, agricultural and hydrological drought events, and reflect on challenges the research community has faced to date, such as limitations associated with data record length and spatial, temporal and spectral resolution.
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Assessment of the SMAP Level-4 surface and root-zone soil moisture product using in situ measurements
Rolf H. Reichle,Gabrielle De Lannoy,Qing Liu,Joseph V. Ardizzone,Andreas Colliander,Austin Conaty,Wade T. Crow,Thomas J. Jackson,Lucas A. Jones,John S. Kimball,Randal D. Koster,Sarith Mahanama,Edmond B. Smith,Aaron A. Berg,Simone Bircher,David D. Bosch,Todd G. Caldwell,Michael H. Cosh,A. Gonzalez-Zamora,Chandra Holifield Collins,Karsten Høgh Jensen,Stan Livingston,Ernesto Lopez-Baeza,José Martínez-Fernández,H. McNairn,Mahta Moghaddam,A. Pacheco,Thierry Pellarin,John H. Prueger,Tracy Rowlandson,Mark S. Seyfried,Patrick J. Starks,Zhongbo Su,M. Thibeault,Rogier van der Velde,Jeffrey P. Walker,Xiaoling Wu,Yijian Zeng +37 more
TL;DR: The Level-4 Surface and Root-Zone Soil Moisture (L4_SM) data product is generated by assimilating SMAP L-band brightness temperature observations into the NASA Catchment land surface model as mentioned in this paper.
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