Validation of the Soil Moisture Active Passive mission using USDA-ARS experimental watersheds

Michael H Cosh, U. S. Department of Agriculture, Beltsville, United States, Thomas J Jackson, USDA ARS, Pendleton, OR, United States, Rajat Bindlish, Science Systems and Applications, Inc., Lanham, MD, United States, Andreas Colliander, NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, United States, Seungbum Kim, NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, CA, United States, Narendra N Das, NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Water and Carbon Cycle Group, Pasadena, CA, United States, Simon H Yueh, Jet Propulsion Laboratory, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, United States, David D Bosch, USDA, ARS, Tifton, United States, David C Goodrich, USDA-ARS Southwest Watershed Research Center, Tucson, United States, John H Prueger, USDA ARS, Beltsville, MD, United States, Patrick j Starks, USDA-ARS, El Reno, OK, United States, Stanley Livingston, USDA, ARS, National Soil Erorion Research Lab, West Lafayette, IN, United States, Mark S Seyfried, USDA-ARS, Northwest Watershed Research Center, Boise, United States and Evan J Coopersmith, USDA Beltsville Agricultural Research Center, Beltsville, MD, United States