Development and Initial Assessment of the SMAP Passive Soil Moisture Product

Rajat Bindlish1, Steven Chan2, Peggy E O'Neill3, Thomas J Jackson4, Eni G Njoku5, Andreas Colliander6, Michael H Cosh4, Fan Chen7 and Wade T Crow8, (1)U. S. Dept. of Agriculture, Beltsville, MD, United States, (2)NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, United States, (3)NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, MD, United States, (4)USDA ARS, Hydrology and Remote Sensing Lab, Beltsville, MD, United States, (5)Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, CA, 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