SMAP L2/L3 Soil Moisture Product Validation using In Situ Based Core Validation Sites

Andreas Colliander1, Thomas J Jackson2, Steven Chan3, Narendra N Das4, Seungbum Kim3, R. Scott Dunbar5, Rajat Bindlish2, Lan B Dang1, Aaron A Berg6, Tracy L Rowlandson7, Kelly K Caylor8, Michael H Cosh2, Hala K AlJassar9, Ernesto Lopez-Baeza10, Jose Martínez-Fernández11, Angel Gonzales-Zamora11, Heather McNairn12, Anna M Pacheco13, Mahta Moghaddam14, Carsten Montzka15, Caludia Notarnicola16, Georg Niedrist16, Thierry Pellarin17, Jouni Pulliainen18, Kimmo Rautiainen18, Judith Ramos19, Mark S Seyfried20, Zhongbo Su21, Yijian Zeng21, Rogier Van der Velde22, Marouane Temimi23, Marc Thibeault24, Wouter Dorigo25, Mariette Vreugdenhil26, Jeffrey Walker27, Xiaoling Wu27, Todd G Caldwell28, Michael Spencer1, Peggy E O'Neill29, Dara Entekhabi30, Simon H Yueh3 and Eni G Njoku1, (1)Jet Propulsion Laboratory, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, CA, United States, (2)USDA ARS, Hydrology and Remote Sensing Lab, Beltsville, MD, United States, (3)Jet Propulsion Laboratory, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, United States, (4)NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, CA, United States, (5)Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, CA, United States, (6)University of Guelph, Department of Geography, Environment and Geomatics, Guelph, ON, Canada, (7)University of Guelph, Guelph, ON, Canada, (8)Princeton University, Civil and Environmental Engineering, Princeton, NJ, United States, (9)Kuwait University, Physics Department, Kuwait, Kuwait, (10)University of Valencia, Valencia, Spain, (11)University of Salamanca, Salamanca, Spain, (12)Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada, Science and Technology Branch, Ottawa, ON, Canada, (13)Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada (AAFC), Ottawa, Canada, (14)University of Southern California, Electrical Engineering, Los Angeles, CA, United States, (15)Forschungszentrum Jülich, Jülich, Germany, (16)EUR.AC, Institute for Applied Remote Sensing, Bozen/Bolzano, Italy, (17)CNRS, The Institute for Geosciences and Environmental research (IGE), Grenoble, France, (18)Finnish Meteorological Institute, Helsinki, Finland, (19)Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, Mexico City, Mexico, (20)USDA - ARS, Northwest Watershed Research Center, Boise, ID, United States, (21)University of Twente, Enschede, Netherlands, (22)Faculty of Geo-Information Science and Earth Observation, University of Twente, Enschede, Netherlands, (23)Khalifa University of Science and Technology, CESAM Lab, Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates, (24)CONAE, Buenos Aires, Argentina, (25)Vienna University of Technology, Department for Geodesy and Geoinformation, Vienna, Austria, (26)Vienna University of Technology, Vienna, Austria, (27)Monash University, Melbourne, Australia, (28)University of Texas at Austin, Jackson School of Geosciences, Austin, United States, (29)NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, MD, United States, (30)Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Civil and Environmental Engineering, Cambridge, MA, United States