SMOS and AMSR-2 soil moisture evaluation using representative monitoring sites in southern Australia

Mei Sun Mei Sun1, Jeffrey P Walker2, Christoph Rudiger1, Robert Parinussa3, Toshio Koike4 and Yann H Kerr5, (1)Monash University, Melbourne, VIC, Australia, (2)Monash University, Department of Civil Engineering, Clayton, VIC, Australia, (3)University of New South Wales, Sydney, NSW, Australia, (4)University of Tokyo, Bunkyo-ku, Japan, (5)CNES French National Center for Space Studies, Toulouse Cedex 09, France