Journal article
The soil moisture active passive experiments (SMAPEx): Toward soil moisture retrieval from the SMAP mission
R Panciera, JP Walker, TJ Jackson, DA Gray, MA Tanase, D Ryu, A Monerris, H Yardley, C Rüdiger, X Wu, Y Gao, JM Hacker
IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing | Published : 2014
Abstract
NASA's Soil Moisture Active Passive (SMAP) mission will carry the first combined spaceborne L-band radiometer and Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR) system with the objective of mapping near-surface soil moisture and freeze/thaw state globally every 2-3 days. SMAP will provide three soil moisture products: i) high-resolution from radar (~3 km), ii) low-resolution from radiometer (~36 km), and iii) intermediate-resolution from the fusion of radar and radiometer (~9 km). The Soil Moisture Active Passive Experiments (SMAPEx) are a series of three airborne field experiments designed to provide prototype SMAP data for the development and validation of soil moisture retrieval algorithms applicable to ..
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Awarded by Australian Research Council
Funding Acknowledgements
The SMAPEx experiments were funded by an Australian Research Council Discovery Project (DP0984586).