SMAP L2/L3 Soil Moisture Product Validation using In Situ Based Core Validation Sites (62061)
Andreas Colliander1, Thomas J Jackson2, Steven Chan1, Narendra N Das1, Seungbum Kim1, R. Scott Dunbar1, Rajat Bindlish2, Lan B Dang1, Aaron A Berg3, Tracy L Rowlandson3, Kelly K Caylor4, Michael H Cosh2, Hala K AlJassar5, Ernesto Lopez-baeza6, Jose Martínez-Fernández7, Angel Gonzales-Zamora7, Heather McNairn8, Anna M Pacheco9, Mahta Moghaddam10, Carsten Montzka11, Claudia Notarnicola12, Georg Niedrist12, Thierry Pellarin13, Jouni Pulliainen14, Kimmo Rautiainen14, Judith Ramos15, Mark S Seyfried16, Zhongbo Su17, Yijian Zeng17, Rogier Van der Velde17, Marouane Temimi18, Marc Thibeault19, Wouter Dorigo20, Mariette Vreugdenhil20, Jeffrey Walker21, Xiaoling Wu21, Todd G Caldwell22, Michael Spencer1, Peggy E O'Neill23, Dara Entekhabi24, Simon H Yueh1 and Eni G Njoku1, (1)Jet Propulsion Laboratory, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, CA, United States, (2)USDA ARS, Hydrology and Remote Sensing Lab, Beltsville, MD, United States, (3)University of Guelph, Guelph, ON, Canada, (4)Princeton University, Princeton, NJ, United States, (5)Kuwait University, Physics Department, Kuwait, Kuwait, (6)University of Valencia, Valencia, Spain, (7)University of Salamanca, Salamanca, Spain, (8)Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada, Science and Technology Branch, Ottawa, ON, Canada, (9)Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada (AAFC), Ottawa, Canada, (10)University of Southern California, Electrical Engineering, Los Angeles, CA, United States, (11)Forschungszentrum Jülich, Jülich, Germany, (12)EUR.AC, Institute for Applied Remote Sensing, Bozen/Bolzano, Italy, (13)LTHE Laboratoire d'étude des Transferts en Hydrologie et Environnement, Saint Martin d'Hères, France, (14)Finnish Meteorological Institute, Helsinki, Finland, (15)Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, Mexico City, Mexico, (16)USDA - ARS, Northwest Watershed Research Center, Boise, ID, United States, (17)University of Twente, Enschede, Netherlands, (18)NOAA-CREST/City College, CUNY, New York, NY, United States, (19)CONAE, Buenos Aires, Argentina, (20)Vienna University of Technology, Vienna, Austria, (21)Monash University, Melbourne, Australia, (22)University of Texas at Austin, Austin, TX, United States, (23)NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, MD, United States, (24)Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Civil and Environmental Engineering, Cambridge, MA, United States