H14F-02
Validating SMAP L2/3 Products
Monday, 14 December 2015: 16:15
3022 (Moscone West)
Thomas J Jackson1, Andreas Colliander2, Rajat Bindlish3, Steven Chan2, Narendra N Das2, Dara Entekhabi4, Seungbum Kim2, Fan Chen5, Wade T Crow6, Mariko Sofie Burgin2, Jun Asanuma7, Aaron A Berg8, Michael H Cosh6, Todd G Caldwell9, Jose Martínez-Fernández10, Anna M Pacheco11, Zhongbo Su12, Marc Thibeault13, Jeffrey P Walker14, Eni G Njoku15, Simon H Yueh2, Peggy E O'Neill16 and SMAP Cal/Val Team, (1)USDA ARS, Hydrology and Remote Sensing Lab, Beltsville, MD, United States, (2)NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, CA, United States, (3)Science Systems and Applications, Inc., Lanham, MD, United States, (4)Massachusetts Institute of Technology, CEE, Cambridge, MA, United States, (5)U. S. Dept. of Agriculture, Beltsville, MD, United States, (6)USDA Agricultural Research Service New England Plant, Soil and Water Research Laboratory, East Wareham, MA, United States, (7)University of Tsukuba, Center for Research Isotopes and Environment Dynamics, Tsukuba, Japan, (8)University of Guelph, Guelph, ON, Canada, (9)University of Texas at Austin, Austin, TX, United States, (10)University of Salamanca, Salamanca, Spain, (11)Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada (AAFC), Ottawa, Canada, (12)University of Twente, Enschede, Netherlands, (13)CONAE, Buenos Aires, Argentina, (14)Monash University, Clayton, Australia, (15)Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, CA, United States, (16)NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, MD, United States
Abstract:
The Soil Moisture Active Passive (SMAP) mission entered its one year calibration and validation (cal/val) phase in May, 2015. This began with a focus on instrument measurements, brightness temperature and backscatter, and has now evolved to the geophysical products that include three different spatial resolutions of Level 2/3 surface soil moisture (36, 9, and 3 km) and freeze-thaw state. The goal is to provide validated products by May, 2016. SMAP utilizes five methodologies in soil moisture cal/val: core validation sites, sparse networks of in situ sensors, inter-comparisons with products from other satellite programs, inter-comparisons with model-based products, and field campaigns. Each methodology has a role in the process. Examples of each methodology will be presented including recent field campaigns. The evaluation of the beta version will the explained and plans for the providing the validated products presented.
