Early results of the Soil Moisture Active Passive Validation Experiment (SMAPVEX15)

Michael H Cosh1, Thomas J Jackson2, Andreas Colliander3, David C Goodrich4, Chandra Holifield Collins5, Lynn McKee6, Seungbum Kim3 and Simon H Yueh7, (1)U. S. Department of Agriculture, Beltsville, United States, (2)USDA-ARS Hydrology and Remote Sensing Laboratory, Beltsville, MD, United States, (3)NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, CA, United States, (4)USDA-ARS Southwest Watershed Research Center, Tucson, AZ, United States, (5)Agricultural Research Service Tucson, Tucson, AZ, United States, (6)USDA ARS, Beltsville, MD, United States, (7)Jet Propulsion Laboratory, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, United States