H14F
The NASA Soil Moisture Active Passive (SMAP) Mission Status and Early Results I

Monday, 14 December 2015: 16:00-18:00
3022 (Moscone West)
Primary Conveners:  Dara Entekhabi, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Civil and Environmental Engineering, Cambridge, MA, United States
Conveners:  Simon H Yueh, NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, CA, United States and Peggy E O'Neill, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, MD, United States
Chairs:  Dara Entekhabi, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, CEE, Cambridge, MA, United States, Peggy E O'Neill, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, MD, United States and Simon H Yueh, NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, CA, United States
OSPA Liaisons:  Dara Entekhabi, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, CEE, Cambridge, MA, United States
16:00
The NASA Soil Moisture Active Passive (SMAP) Mission Status and Early Results (80003)
Dara Entekhabi1, Simon H Yueh2, Peggy E O'Neill3, Jared Keith Entin4, Eni G Njoku5, Kent Kellogg2 and SMAP Science Team, (1)Massachusetts Institute of Technology, CEE, Cambridge, MA, United States, (2)NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, CA, United States, (3)NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, MD, United States, (4)NASA HQ - SMD, Washington, DC, United States, (5)Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, CA, United States
16:15
Validating SMAP L2/3 Products (Invited) (59321)
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
16:30
Development and Initial Assessment of the SMAP Passive Soil Moisture Product (76508)
Rajat Bindlish1, Steven Chan2, Peggy E O'Neill3, Thomas J Jackson4, Eni G Njoku5, Andreas Colliander2, Michael H Cosh6, Fan Chen1 and Wade T Crow6, (1)U. S. Dept. of Agriculture, Beltsville, MD, United States, (2)NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, CA, United States, (3)NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, MD, United States, (4)USDA ARS, Pendleton, OR, United States, (5)Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, CA, United States, (6)USDA Agricultural Research Service New England Plant, Soil and Water Research Laboratory, East Wareham, MA, United States
16:45
Evaluation of the SMAP Level 4 Surface and Root-Zone Soil Moisture Product (66215)
Gabrielle J.M. De Lannoy, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, MD, United States
17:00
Landscape freeze/thaw retrievals from soil moisture active passive (SMAP) L-band radar measurements (72686)
Christopher Derksen, Environment Canada Toronto, Climate Research Division, Toronto, ON, Canada and Andreas Colliander, NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, CA, United States
17:15
Intercomparison of SMAP L2/L3 Soil Moisture with Synergistic Satellite Products (81934)
Mariko Sofie Burgin1, Andreas Colliander1, Eni G Njoku2, Steven Chan1, Narendra N Das1, Seungbum Kim1, Francois Cabot3, Yann H Kerr4, Rajat Bindlish5 and Thomas J Jackson6, (1)NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, CA, United States, (2)Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, CA, United States, (3)Centre d'Etudes Spatiales de la Biosphere, Toulouse Cedex 9, France, (4)CNES French National Center for Space Studies, Toulouse Cedex 09, France, (5)Science Systems and Applications, Inc., Lanham, MD, United States, (6)USDA ARS, Pendleton, OR, United States
17:30
Using SMAP data to improve drought early warning over the US Great Plains (76945)
Rong Fu, University of Texas at Austin, Geological Sciences, Austin, TX, United States
17:45
Retrieval of Sea Surface Salinity and Wind from The NASA Soil Moisture Active Passive Mission Data (70645)
Simon H Yueh1, Alexander Fore1, Wenqing Tang2 and Akiko Hayashi1, (1)NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, CA, United States, (2)Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, CA, United States
 
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