Validating SMAP L2/3 Products

Thomas J Jackson1, Andreas Colliander2, Rajat Bindlish3, Steven Chan2, Narendra N Das4, Dara Entekhabi5, Seungbum Kim6, Fan Chen7, Wade T Crow8, Mariko Sofie Burgin6, Jun Asanuma9, Aaron A Berg10, Michael H Cosh11, Todd G Caldwell12, Jose Martínez-Fernández13, Anna M Pacheco14, Zhongbo Su15, Marc Thibeault16, Jeffrey P Walker17, Eni G Njoku18, Simon H Yueh19, Peggy E O'Neill20 and SMAP Cal/Val Team, (1)USDA ARS, Hydrology and Remote Sensing Lab, Beltsville, MD, United States, (2)NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, United States, (3)Science Systems and Applications, Inc., Lanham, MD, United States, (4)NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Water and Carbon Cycle Group, Pasadena, CA, United States, (5)Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Cambridge, United States, (6)NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, CA, United States, (7)U. S. Dept. of Agriculture, Beltsville, United States, (8)USDA Agricultural Research Service New England Plant, Soil and Water Research Laboratory, East Wareham, MA, United States, (9)University of Tsukuba, Center for Research Isotopes and Environment Dynamics, Tsukuba, Japan, (10)University of Guelph, Department of Geography, Environment and Geomatics, Guelph, ON, Canada, (11)USDA-ARS, Beltsville, United States, (12)University of Texas at Austin, Jackson School of Geosciences, Austin, United States, (13)University of Salamanca, Salamanca, Spain, (14)Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada (AAFC), Ottawa, Canada, (15)Faculty of Geo-Information Science and Earth Observation, University of Twente, Enschede, Netherlands, (16)CONAE, Buenos Aires, Argentina, (17)Monash University, Department of Civil Engineering, Clayton, VIC, Australia, (18)Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, CA, United States, (19)Jet Propulsion Laboratory, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, United States, (20)NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, MD, United States