SMAP L2/L3 Soil Moisture Product Validation using In Situ Based Core Validation Sites

Andreas Colliander1, Thomas J Jackson2, Steven Chan3, Narendra N Das4, Seungbum Kim3, R. Scott Dunbar5, Rajat Bindlish2, Lan B Dang6, Aaron A Berg7, Tracy L Rowlandson8, Kelly K Caylor9, Michael H Cosh10, Hala K AlJassar11, Ernesto Lopez-Baeza12, Jose Martínez-Fernández13, Angel Gonzales-Zamora13, Heather McNairn14, Anna M Pacheco15, Mahta Moghaddam16, Carsten Montzka17, Caludia Notarnicola18, Georg Niedrist18, Thierry Pellarin19, Jouni Pulliainen20, Kimmo Rautiainen20, Judith Ramos21, Mark S Seyfried22, Zhongbo Su23, Yijian Zeng23, Rogier Van der Velde24, Marouane Temimi25, Marc Thibeault26, Wouter Dorigo27, Mariette Vreugdenhil28, Jeffrey Walker29, Xiaoling Wu29, Todd G Caldwell30, Michael Spencer6, Peggy E O'Neill31, Dara Entekhabi32, Simon H Yueh3 and Eni G Njoku6, (1)NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, United States, (2)USDA ARS, Hydrology and Remote Sensing Lab, Beltsville, MD, United States, (3)Jet Propulsion Laboratory, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, United States, (4)NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, CA, United States, (5)Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, CA, United States, (6)Jet Propulsion Laboratory, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, CA, United States, (7)University of Guelph, Department of Geography, Environment and Geomatics, Guelph, ON, Canada, (8)University of Guelph, Guelph, ON, Canada, (9)Princeton University, Civil and Environmental Engineering, Princeton, NJ, United States, (10)U.S. Department of Agriculture ARS, Hydrology and Remote Sensing Laboratory, Beltsville, United States, (11)Kuwait University, Physics Department, Kuwait, Kuwait, (12)University of Valencia, Valencia, Spain, (13)University of Salamanca, Salamanca, Spain, (14)Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada, Science and Technology Branch, Ottawa, ON, Canada, (15)Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada (AAFC), Ottawa, Canada, (16)University of Southern California, Electrical Engineering, Los Angeles, CA, United States, (17)Forschungszentrum Jülich, Jülich, Germany, (18)EUR.AC, Institute for Applied Remote Sensing, Bozen/Bolzano, Italy, (19)CNRS, The Institute for Geosciences and Environmental research (IGE), Grenoble, France, (20)Finnish Meteorological Institute, Helsinki, Finland, (21)Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, Mexico City, Mexico, (22)USDA - ARS, Northwest Watershed Research Center, Boise, ID, United States, (23)University of Twente, Enschede, Netherlands, (24)Faculty of Geo-Information Science and Earth Observation, University of Twente, Enschede, Netherlands, (25)Stevens Institute of Technology, Civil, Environmental, and Ocean Engineering, Hoboken, United States, (26)CONAE, Buenos Aires, Argentina, (27)Vienna University of Technology, Department for Geodesy and Geoinformation, Vienna, Austria, (28)Department of Geodesy and Geoinformation, TU Wien, 1040 Vienna, Austria, Vienna, Austria, (29)Monash University, Melbourne, Australia, (30)University of Texas at Austin, Jackson School of Geosciences, Austin, United States, (31)NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, MD, United States, (32)Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Civil and Environmental Engineering, Cambridge, MA, United States