Assessment of SMAP L2/L3 Soil Moisture Products using In Situ Based Core Validation Sites

Andreas Colliander1, Thomas J Jackson2, Rajat Bindlish3, Steven Chan4, Narendra N Das5, Seungbum Kim6, Michael H Cosh7, R. Scott Dunbar8, Jun Asanuma9, Kentaro Aida10, Aaron A Berg11, Tracy L Rowlandson12, David D Bosch13, Todd G Caldwell14, Kelly K Caylor15, David C Goodrich16, Hala Khalid Al Jassar17, Ernesto Lopez-Baeza18, Jose Martínez-Fernández19, Angel Gonzales-Zamora19, Stanley Livingston20, Heather McNairn21, Anna M Pacheco22, Mahta Moghaddam23, Carsten Montzka24, Caludia Notarnicola25, Georg Niedrist26, Thierry Pellarin27, John H Prueger28, Jouni Pulliainen29, Kimmo Rautiainen29, Judith Ramos30, Mark S Seyfried31, Patrick j Starks32, Zhongbo Su33, Yijian Zeng33, Rogier Van der Velde34, Marc Thibeault35, Wouter Dorigo36, Mariette Vreugdenhil37, Jeffrey P Walker38, Xiaoling Wu39, Alessandra Monerris40, Peggy E O'Neill41, Dara Entekhabi42 and Simon H Yueh43, (1)NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, United States, (2)USDA ARS, Pendleton, OR, United States, (3)Science Systems and Applications, Inc., Lanham, MD, United States, (4)NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, United States, (5)NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Water and Carbon Cycle Group, Pasadena, CA, United States, (6)Univ California Los Angeles, Los Angeles, United States, (7)U.S. Department of Agriculture ARS, Hydrology and Remote Sensing Laboratory, Beltsville, United States, (8)Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, CA, United States, (9)University of Tsukuba, Tsukuba, Japan, (10)University of Tsukuba, Center for Research Isotopes and Environment Dynamics, Tsukuba, Japan, (11)University of Guelph, Department of Geography, Environment and Geomatics, Guelph, ON, Canada, (12)University of Guelph, Guelph, ON, Canada, (13)USDA, ARS, Tifton, United States, (14)University of Texas at Austin, Jackson School of Geosciences, Austin, United States, (15)University of California Santa Barbara, Department of Geography, Santa Barbara, CA, United States, (16)USDA-ARS Southwest Watershed Research Center, Tucson, United States, (17)University of Kuwait, Kuwait, Kuwait, (18)University of Valencia, Valencia, Spain, (19)University of Salamanca, Salamanca, Spain, (20)USDA, ARS, National Soil Erorion Research Lab, West Lafayette, IN, United States, (21)Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada, Science and Technology Branch, Ottawa, ON, Canada, (22)Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada (AAFC), Ottawa, Canada, (23)University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA, United States, (24)Forschungszentrum Jülich GmbH, Jülich 52428, Germany, (25)European Academy of Bolzano, EURAC, Institute for Earth Observation, Bolzano/Bozen, Italy, (26)University of Innsbruck, Institute of Ecology, Innsbruck, Austria, (27)CNRS, The Institute for Geosciences and Environmental research (IGE), Grenoble, France, (28)USDA ARS, Beltsville, MD, United States, (29)Finnish Meteorological Institute, Helsinki, Finland, (30)Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, Mexico City, Mexico, (31)USDA-ARS, Northwest Watershed Research Center, Boise, United States, (32)USDA-ARS, El Reno, OK, United States, (33)University of Twente, Enschede, Netherlands, (34)Faculty of Geo-Information Science and Earth Observation, University of Twente, Enschede, Netherlands, (35)CONAE, Buenos Aires, Argentina, (36)Vienna University of Technology, Department for Geodesy and Geoinformation, Vienna, Austria, (37)Department of Geodesy and Geoinformation, TU Wien, 1040 Vienna, Austria, Vienna, Austria, (38)Monash University, Department of Civil Engineering, Clayton, VIC, Australia, (39)Nanjing Normal University, Nanjing, China, (40)Monash University, Clayton, Australia, (41)NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, MD, United States, (42)Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Civil and Environmental Engineering, Cambridge, MA, United States, (43)Jet Propulsion Laboratory, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, United States