H14F:
The NASA Soil Moisture Active Passive (SMAP) Mission Status and Early Results I
Session ID#: 10624
Session Description:
NASA’s Soil Moisture Active Passive (SMAP) mission was launched on January 31, 2015. SMAP provides high-resolution, frequent revisit global mapping of soil moisture and freeze/thaw state based on coincident L-band radiometer and L-band radar measurements. Soil moisture products with varying resolution and coverage are produced from the radiometer alone, radar alone, radiometer-radar combination and data assimilation. In this session the status of the SMAP observatory and early results based on the science data products will be included. The mapping low-frequency microwave radar and radiometer measurements are also used in development of new data and information on the cryosphere and the biosphere. This session will include abstracts on the new Earth monitoring opportunities with the availability of mapping active and passive microwave measurements.
Primary Convener: Dara Entekhabi, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Civil and Environmental Engineering, Cambridge, MA, United States
Conveners: Simon H Yueh, Jet Propulsion Laboratory, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, United States and Peggy E O'Neill, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, MD, United States
Chairs: Dara Entekhabi, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Cambridge, MA, United States, Peggy E O'Neill, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, MD, United States and Simon H Yueh, Jet Propulsion Laboratory, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, United States
OSPA Liaison: Dara Entekhabi, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Cambridge, MA, United States
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Abstracts Submitted to this Session:
Dara Entekhabi, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Cambridge, MA, United States, Simon H Yueh, Jet Propulsion Laboratory, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, United States, Peggy E O'Neill, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, MD, United States, Jared Keith Entin, NASA HQ - SMD, Washington, United States, Eni G Njoku, Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, CA, United States, Kent Kellogg, NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, CA, United States and SMAP Science Team
Thomas J Jackson1, Andreas Colliander2, Rajat Bindlish3, Steven Chan4, Narendra N Das5, Dara Entekhabi6, Seungbum Kim7, Fan Chen8, Wade T Crow1, Mariko Sofie Burgin9, Jun Asanuma10, Aaron A Berg11, Michael H Cosh12, Todd G Caldwell13, Jose Martínez-Fernández14, Anna M Pacheco15, Zhongbo Su16, Marc Thibeault17, Jeffrey P Walker18, Eni G Njoku19, Simon H Yueh20, Peggy E O'Neill21 and SMAP Cal/Val Team, (1)USDA ARS, Hydrology and Remote Sensing Lab, Beltsville, MD, United States, (2)NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, United States, (3)Science Systems and Applications, Inc., Lanham, MD, United States, (4)NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, United States, (5)NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Water and Carbon Cycle Group, Pasadena, CA, United States, (6)Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Cambridge, MA, United States, (7)Univ California Los Angeles, Los Angeles, United States, (8)U. S. Dept. of Agriculture, Beltsville, United States, (9)NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, CA, United States, (10)University of Tsukuba, Center for Research Isotopes and Environment Dynamics, Tsukuba, Japan, (11)University of Guelph, Department of Geography, Environment and Geomatics, Guelph, ON, Canada, (12)U.S. Department of Agriculture ARS, Hydrology and Remote Sensing Laboratory, Beltsville, United States, (13)University of Texas at Austin, Jackson School of Geosciences, Austin, United States, (14)University of Salamanca, Salamanca, Spain, (15)Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada (AAFC), Ottawa, Canada, (16)Faculty of Geo-Information Science and Earth Observation, University of Twente, Enschede, Netherlands, (17)CONAE, Buenos Aires, Argentina, (18)Monash University, Department of Civil Engineering, Clayton, VIC, Australia, (19)Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, CA, United States, (20)Jet Propulsion Laboratory, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, United States, (21)NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, MD, United States
Rajat Bindlish1, Steven Chan2, Peggy E O'Neill3, Thomas J Jackson4, Eni G Njoku5, Andreas Colliander6, Michael H Cosh7, Fan Chen8 and Wade T Crow4, (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, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, United States, (7)U.S. Department of Agriculture ARS, Hydrology and Remote Sensing Laboratory, Beltsville, United States, (8)U. S. Dept. of Agriculture, Beltsville, United States
Gabrielle J.M. De Lannoy1, Rolf H Reichle2, Joseph V Ardizzone2, Andreas Colliander3, Michael H Cosh4, Wade T Crow5, John S Kimball6, Randal D Koster7 and Qing Liu8, (1)NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, MD, United States, (2)NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, United States, (3)NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, United States, (4)U.S. Department of Agriculture ARS, Hydrology and Remote Sensing Laboratory, Beltsville, United States, (5)USDA ARS, Hydrology and Remote Sensing Lab, Beltsville, MD, United States, (6)University of Montana, Numerical Terradynamic Simulation Group, College of Forestry & Conservation, Missoula, MT, United States, (7)NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Global Modeling and Assimilation Office, Greenbelt, United States, (8)GMAO, building 33, Greenbelt, United States
Christopher Derksen, Environment and Climate Change Canada, Climate Research Division, Toronto, ON, Canada and Andreas Colliander, NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, United States
Mariko Sofie Burgin, NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, CA, United States, Andreas Colliander, NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, United States, Eni G Njoku, Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, CA, United States, Steven Chan, NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, United States, Narendra N Das, NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Water and Carbon Cycle Group, Pasadena, CA, United States, Seungbum Kim, Univ California Los Angeles, Los Angeles, United States, Francois Cabot, Centre d'Etudes Spatiales de la Biosphere, Toulouse Cedex 9, France, Yann H Kerr, CNES French National Center for Space Studies, Toulouse Cedex 09, France, Rajat Bindlish, Science Systems and Applications, Inc., Lanham, MD, United States and Thomas J Jackson, USDA ARS, Pendleton, OR, United States
Rong Fu, University of Texas at Austin, Department of Geological Sciences, Austin, TX, United States, Nelun Fernando, Texas Water Development Board, Water Availability, Austin, TX, United States and Wenqing Tang, Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, CA, United States
Simon H Yueh, Jet Propulsion Laboratory, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, United States, Alexander Fore, NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, United States, Wenqing Tang, Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, CA, United States and Akiko Hayashi, NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, CA, United States
