Monitoring the Phenology of Global Agroecosystems Using SMAP Multi-temporal Vegetation Optical Depth Retrievals

Maria Piles1, Dara Entekhabi2, Alexandra G Konings3, Ruzbeh Akbar2, Thomas Jagdhuber4, David Chaparro5 and Narendra N Das6, (1)Spanish National Research Council - CSIC, Institut de Ciències del Mar, Barcelona, Spain, (2)Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Cambridge, MA, United States, (3)Stanford University, Earth System Science, Stanford, CA, United States, (4)Institute of Geography, University of Augsburg, Augsburg, Germany, (5)German Aerospace Center DLR Oberpfaffenhofen, Microwaves and Radar Institute, Oberpfaffenhofen, Germany, (6)NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Water and Carbon Cycle Group, Pasadena, CA, United States