Statistical techniques to extract information during SMAP soil moisture assimilation

Jana Kolassa, Science Systems and Applications, Inc., Lanham, United States, Rolf H Reichle, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, United States, Qing Liu, NASA GSFC/SSAI Inc., Greenbelt, United States, Hamed Alemohammad, Radiant Earth Foundation, Washington, United States and Pierre Gentine, Columbia University, Department of Earth and Environmental Engineering, New York, United States