Characteristics and performance of L-band radar-based soil moisture retrievals using Soil Moisture Active Passive (SMAP) synthetic aperture radar observations

Seungbum Kim, Univ California Los Angeles, Los Angeles, United States, Joel T Johnson, The Ohio State University, ElectroScience Laboratory, Columbus, United States, Mahta Moghaddam, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA, United States, Leung Tsang, University of Michigan, Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, Ann Arbor, United States and Andreas Colliander, NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, United States