Conference Proceedings
An airborne simulation of the SMAP data stream
JP Walker, P O'Neill, X Wu, Y Gao, A Monerris, R Panciera, T Jackson, D Gray, D Ryu
International Geoscience and Remote Sensing Symposium IGARSS | IEEE | Published : 2012
Abstract
Once launched in late 2014, NASA's Soil Moisture Active Passive (SMAP) mission will use a combination of a four-channel L-band radiometer and a three-channel L-band radar to provide high resolution global mapping of soil moisture and landscape freeze/thaw state every 2-3 days. These measurements are valuable to improved understanding of the Earth's water, energy, and carbon cycles, and to many applications of societal benefit. In order for soil moisture and freeze/thaw to be retrieved accurately from SMAP microwave data, prelaunch activities are concentrating on developing improved geophysical retrieval algorithms for each of the SMAP baseline products using data from simulations, from exist..
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Awarded by Australian Research Council project
Awarded by Australian Research Council
Funding Acknowledgements
This project has been funded by the Australian Research Council project DP0984586. Infrastructure support was provided by LE0453434 and LE0882509. The original setup and maintenance of the study catchment was funded by research grants DP0343778 and DP0557543. The authors acknowledge the contributions of many participants involved in the collection of field data and the contributions made by their host organizations and funding bodies.