H31O:
Remote Sensing and Modeling of the Terrestrial Water Cycle II

Session ID#: 4920

Wednesday, 17 December 2014: 8:00 AM-10:00 AM
3011 (Moscone West)
Chairs:  Iliana E Mladenova, USDA/ARS BARC-W, Bldg 007, Beltsville, MD, United States and Venkataraman Lakshmi, University of Virginia, Civil and Environmental Engineering, Charlottesville, VA, United States
Primary Convener:  Iliana E Mladenova, USDA/ARS BARC-W, Bldg 007, Beltsville, MD, United States
Co-conveners:  Venkataraman Lakshmi, University of Virginia, Civil and Environmental Engineering, Charlottesville, VA, United States, Dr. Yadu Pokhrel, Michigan State University, Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, East Lansing, MI, United States and Bridget R Scanlon, University of Texas at Austin, Bureau of Economic Geology, Jackson School of Geosciences, Austin, United States
OSPA Liaison:  Iliana E Mladenova, USDA/ARS BARC-W, Bldg 007, Beltsville, MD, United States
Co-Sponsor(s):
  • A - Atmospheric Sciences
  • B - Biogeosciences
  • GC - Global Environmental Change
Index Terms:

1836 Hydrological cycles and budgets [HYDROLOGY]
1855 Remote sensing [HYDROLOGY]
1866 Soil moisture [HYDROLOGY]
Virtual Option?: No

Abstracts Submitted to this Session:

H31O-01
The NASA Soil Moisture Active Passive (SMAP) Mission Status (10594)
Dara Entekhabi, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Civil and Environmental Engineering, Cambridge, MA, United States, Simon H Yueh, Jet Propulsion Laboratory, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, United States, Peggy E O'Neill, NASA Goddard SFC, Greenbelt, MD, United States, Jared Keith Entin, NASA HQ - SMD, Washington, United States, Kent Kellogg, NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, CA, United States, Eni G Njoku, Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, CA, United States and Soil Moisture Active Passive Science Team
H31O-02
SMAP Global Model Calibration Using SMOS Time-Series Observations (10419)
Steven Chan, NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, United States, Eni G Njoku, Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, CA, United States, Rajat Bindlish, U. S. Dept. of Agriculture, Beltsville, MD, United States, Peggy E O'Neill, NASA Goddard SFC, Greenbelt, MD, United States and Thomas J Jackson, USDA ARS, Pendleton, OR, United States
H31O-03
PALS (Passive Active L-band System) Radiometer-Based Soil Moisture Retrieval for the SMAP Validation Experiment 2012 (SMAPVEX12) (28546)
Andreas Colliander1, Thomas J Jackson2, Steven Chan3, Rajat Bindlish4, Peggy E O'Neill5, Seth L Chazanoff3, Heather McNairn6, Paul Bullock7, Jarrett Powers8, Grant Wiseman9, Aaron A Berg10, Ramata Magagi11 and Eni G Njoku3, (1)NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, United States, (2)USDA ARS, Pendleton, OR, United States, (3)Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, CA, United States, (4)U. S. Dept. of Agriculture, Beltsville, MD, United States, (5)NASA Goddard SFC, Greenbelt, MD, United States, (6)Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada, Science and Technology Branch, Ottawa, ON, Canada, (7)University of Manitoba, Winnipeg, MB, Canada, (8)Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada - Winnipeg, Winnipeg, MB, Canada, (9)Stantec, Winnipeg, MB, Canada, (10)University of Guelph, Department of Geography, Environment and Geomatics, Guelph, ON, Canada, (11)University of Sherbrooke, Sherbrooke, QC, Canada
H31O-04
SCANNING L-BAND ACTIVE PASSIVE (SLAP)—FLIGHT RESULTS FROM A NEW AIRBORNE SIMULATOR FOR SMAP (28813)
Edward J Kim, Tammy Faulkner, Albert Wu and Hemanshu Patel, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, MD, United States
H31O-05
High Spatial Resolution Soil Moisture with Passive Active Sensors Using a Change Detection Approach: Studies Using SMAPVEX12 Data (6621)
Bin Fang, University of South Carolina Columbia, Columbia, United States, Venkataraman Lakshmi, University of Virginia, Civil and Environmental Engineering, Charlottesville, VA, United States, Rajat Bindlish, U. S. Dept. of Agriculture, Beltsville, MD, United States and Thomas J Jackson, USDA ARS, Pendleton, OR, United States
H31O-06
Diagnosing Soil Moisture Anomalies and Neglected Soil Moisture Source/Sink Processes via a Thermal Infrared-based Two-Source Energy Balance Model (Invited) (5182)
Christopher Hain, University of Maryland, CMNS-Earth System Science Interdisciplinary Center, College Park, MD, United States, Wade T Crow, USDA ARS, Hydrology and Remote Sensing Lab, Beltsville, MD, United States, Martha Anderson, USDA Agricultural Research Service, Hydrology and Remote Sensing Laboratory, Beltsville, United States and M Tugrul Yilmaz, Middle East Technical University, Civil Engineering, Ankara, Turkey
H31O-07
Development and Validation of Global Soil Moisture Data Products from GCOM-W1/AMSR2 and NESDIS SMOPS (9308)
Xiwu Zhan1, Jicheng Liu2, Li Fang3 and Christopher Hain3, (1)NOAA/NESDIS/STAR, Riverdale Park, MD, United States, (2)NOAA/NESDIS/STAR, College Park, United States, (3)NOAA-NESDIS, College Park, MD, United States
H31O-08
Satellite Retrievals of Vegetation Optical Depth Using Time-Series of Dual-Polarized and Single Look-Angle Global Microwave Observations (13087)
Maria Piles1,2, Alexandra G Konings3, Kaighin A Mccoll4, Steven Chan5 and Dara Entekhabi4, (1)Universitat Politecnica de Catalunya, Barcelona, Spain, (2)SMOS Barcelona Expert Center, Barcelona, Spain, (3)Stanford University, Earth System Science, Stanford, CA, United States, (4)Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Civil and Environmental Engineering, Cambridge, MA, United States, (5)NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, United States
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