SMAP Multi-Temporal Soil Moisture and Vegetation Optical Depth Retrievals in Vegetated Regions Including Higher-Order Soil-Canopy Interactions

Andrew Feldman1, Ruzbeh Akbar2, Alexandra G Konings3, Maria Piles4 and Dara Entekhabi2, (1)Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Cambridge, United States, (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)SMOS Barcelona Expert Center, Barcelona, Spain