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

Wednesday, 17 December 2014: 8:00 AM-10:00 AM
Chairs:  Iliana E Mladenova, USDA/ARS BARC-W, Bldg 007, Beltsville, MD, United States and Venkataraman Lakshmi, Univ South Carolina, Columbia, SC, United States
Primary Conveners:  Iliana E Mladenova, USDA/ARS BARC-W, Bldg 007, Beltsville, MD, United States
Co-conveners:  Venkataraman Lakshmi, Univ South Carolina, Columbia, SC, United States, Yadu N Pokhrel, Michigan State University, Department of Civil & Environmental Engineering, East Lansing, MI, United States and Bridget R Scanlon, Univ Texas Austin, Austin, TX, United States
OSPA Liaisons:  Iliana E Mladenova, USDA/ARS BARC-W, Bldg 007, Beltsville, MD, United States

Abstracts Submitted to this Session:

8:00 AM
H31O-01
 
The NASA Soil Moisture Active Passive (SMAP) Mission Status
Dara Entekhabi1, Simon H Yueh2, Peggy E O'Neill3, Jared Keith Entin4, Kent Kellogg2 and Eni G Njoku5, (1)Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Civil and Environmental Engineering, Cambridge, MA, United States, (2)NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, CA, United States, (3)NASA Goddard SFC, Greenbelt, MD, United States, (4)NASA HQ - SMD, Washington, DC, United States, (5)Jet Propulsion Laboratory, La Cañada Flintridge, CA, United States
8:15 AM
H31O-02
 
SMAP Global Model Calibration Using SMOS Time-Series Observations
Steven Chan, NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, CA, United States, Eni G Njoku, Jet Propulsion Laboratory, La Cañada Flintridge, 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
8:30 AM
H31O-03
 
PALS (Passive Active L-band System) Radiometer-Based Soil Moisture Retrieval for the SMAP Validation Experiment 2012 (SMAPVEX12)
Andreas Colliander1, Thomas J Jackson2, Steven Chan1, Rajat Bindlish3, Peggy E O'Neill4, Seth L Chazanoff1, Heather McNairn5, Paul Bullock6, Jarrett Powers7, Grant Wiseman8, Aaron A Berg9, Ramata Magagi10 and Eni G Njoku1, (1)Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, CA, United States, (2)USDA ARS, Beltsville, MD, United States, (3)U. S. Dept. of Agriculture, Beltsville, MD, United States, (4)NASA Goddard SFC, Greenbelt, MD, United States, (5)Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada, Science and Technology Branch, Ottawa, ON, Canada, (6)University of Manitoba, Winnipeg, MB, Canada, (7)Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada - Winnipeg, Winnipeg, MB, Canada, (8)Stantec, Winnipeg, MB, Canada, (9)University of Guelph, Guelph, ON, Canada, (10)University of Sherbrooke, Sherbrooke, QC, Canada
8:45 AM
H31O-04
 
SCANNING L-BAND ACTIVE PASSIVE (SLAP)—FLIGHT RESULTS FROM A NEW AIRBORNE SIMULATOR FOR SMAP
Edward J Kim, Tammy Faulkner, Albert Wu and Hemanshu Patel, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, MD, United States
9:00 AM
H31O-05
 
High Spatial Resolution Soil Moisture with Passive Active Sensors Using a Change Detection Approach: Studies Using SMAPVEX12 Data
Bin Fang, University of South Carolina Columbia, Columbia, SC, United States, Venkataraman Lakshmi, Univ South Carolina, Columbia, SC, United States, Rajat Bindlish, U. S. Dept. of Agriculture, Beltsville, MD, United States and Thomas J Jackson, USDA ARS, Pendleton, OR, United States
9:15 AM
H31O-06
 
Diagnosing Soil Moisture Anomalies and Neglected Soil Moisture Source/Sink Processes via a Thermal Infrared-based Two-Source Energy Balance Model
Christopher Hain, University of Maryland, CMNS-Earth System Science Interdisciplinary Center, College Park, MD, United States, Wade T Crow, Hydrol and Remote Sensing Lab, Beltsville, MD, United States, Martha C. Anderson, USDA ARS, Pendleton, OR, United States and M Tugrul Yilmaz, Middle East Technical University, Civil Engineering, Ankara, Turkey
9:30 AM
H31O-07
 
Development and Validation of Global Soil Moisture Data Products from GCOM-W1/AMSR2 and NESDIS SMOPS
Xiwu Zhan, Jicheng Liu, Li Fang and Christopher Hain, NOAA-NESDIS, College Park, MD, United States
9:45 AM
H31O-08
 
Satellite Retrievals of Vegetation Optical Depth Using Time-Series of Dual-Polarized and Single Look-Angle Global Microwave Observations
Maria Piles1,2, Alexandra G Konings3, Kaighin A Mccoll3, Steven Chan4 and Dara Entekhabi3, (1)Universitat Politecnica de Catalunya, Barcelona, Spain, (2)SMOS Barcelona Expert Center, Barcelona, Spain, (3)Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Civil and Environmental Engineering, Cambridge, MA, United States, (4)NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, CA, United States
 
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