Joint Sentinel-1 and SMAP data assimilation to improve soil moisture estimates

Hans Lievens1, Rolf H Reichle2, Qing Liu3, Gabrielle J.M. De Lannoy2, R. Scott Dunbar4, Seungbum Kim5, Narendra N Das6, Michael H Cosh7, Jeffrey P Walker8 and Wolfgang Wagner9, (1)Ghent University, Hydro-Climate Extremes Lab (H-CEL), Gent, Belgium, (2)NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, United States, (3)NASA GSFC/SSAI Inc., Greenbelt, United States, (4)Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, CA, United States, (5)Jet Propulsion Laboratory, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, United States, (6)NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, CA, United States, (7)U.S. Department of Agriculture ARS, Hydrology and Remote Sensing Laboratory, Beltsville, United States, (8)Monash University, Department of Civil Engineering, Clayton, VIC, Australia, (9)Vienna University of Technolog, Vienna, Austria