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, 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, United States
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Abstracts Submitted to this Session:
Dara Entekhabi, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Cambridge, 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 Chan2, Narendra N Das4, Dara Entekhabi5, Seungbum Kim6, Fan Chen7, Wade T Crow8, Mariko Sofie Burgin6, Jun Asanuma9, Aaron A Berg10, Michael H Cosh11, Todd G Caldwell12, Jose Martínez-Fernández13, Anna M Pacheco14, Zhongbo Su15, Marc Thibeault16, Jeffrey P Walker17, Eni G Njoku18, Simon H Yueh19, Peggy E O'Neill20 and SMAP Cal/Val Team, (1)USDA ARS, Hydrology and Remote Sensing Lab, Beltsville, MD, United States, (2)NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, United States, (3)Science Systems and Applications, Inc., Lanham, MD, United States, (4)NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Water and Carbon Cycle Group, Pasadena, CA, United States, (5)Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Cambridge, 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, (9)University of Tsukuba, Center for Research Isotopes and Environment Dynamics, Tsukuba, Japan, (10)University of Guelph, Department of Geography, Environment and Geomatics, Guelph, ON, Canada, (11)USDA-ARS, Beltsville, United States, (12)University of Texas at Austin, Jackson School of Geosciences, Austin, United States, (13)University of Salamanca, Salamanca, Spain, (14)Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada (AAFC), Ottawa, Canada, (15)Faculty of Geo-Information Science and Earth Observation, University of Twente, Enschede, Netherlands, (16)CONAE, Buenos Aires, Argentina, (17)Monash University, Department of Civil Engineering, Clayton, VIC, Australia, (18)Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, CA, United States, (19)Jet Propulsion Laboratory, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, United States, (20)NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, MD, United States
Rajat Bindlish1, Steven Chan2, Peggy E O'Neill3, Thomas J Jackson4, Eni G Njoku5, Andreas Colliander2, Michael H Cosh4, Fan Chen6 and Wade T Crow7, (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)U. S. Dept. of Agriculture, Beltsville, United States, (7)USDA Agricultural Research Service New England Plant, Soil and Water Research Laboratory, East Wareham, MA, 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, Pasadena, United States, (4)USDA-ARS, Beltsville, United States, (5)USDA Agricultural Research Service New England Plant, Soil and Water Research Laboratory, East Wareham, MA, 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, Pasadena, United States
Mariko Sofie Burgin1, Andreas Colliander2, Eni G Njoku3, Steven Chan2, Narendra N Das4, Seungbum Kim1, Francois Cabot5, Yann H Kerr6, Rajat Bindlish7 and Thomas J Jackson8, (1)NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, CA, United States, (2)NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, United States, (3)Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, CA, United States, (4)NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Water and Carbon Cycle Group, Pasadena, CA, United States, (5)Centre d'Etudes Spatiales de la Biosphere, Toulouse Cedex 9, France, (6)CNES French National Center for Space Studies, Toulouse Cedex 09, France, (7)Science Systems and Applications, Inc., Lanham, MD, United States, (8)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
