| WEP.P11: Soil Moisture Retrieval I | 
   | Session Type: Poster | 
   | Time: Wednesday, July 24, 17:20 - 19:00 | 
   | Location: Ground Floor Foyer, Poster Area | 
   | Session Chairs: Mariko Burgin, University of Southern California and Sandy Peischl, Monash University | 
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   | WEP.P11.72: AN APPROACH FOR SURFACE SOIL MOISTURE RETRIEVAL USING MICROWAVE VEGETATION INDICES BASED ON SMOS DATA | 
  | Qian Cui;  Institute of Remote Sensing and Digital Earth, Chinese Academy of Sciences | 
| Jiancheng Shi;  Institute of Remote Sensing and Digital Earth, Chinese Academy of Sciences | 
| Tianjie Zhao;  Institute of Remote Sensing and Digital Earth, Chinese Academy of Sciences | 
| Qiang Liu;  Institute of Remote Sensing and Digital Earth, Chinese Academy of Sciences | 
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   | WEP.P11.73: AN IMPROVED METHOD FOR DOWNSCALING SOIL MOISTURE RETRIEVED BY SMOS WITH MODIS LST/NDVI | 
  | Chengyun Song;  State Key Laboratory of Remote Sensing Science, Jointly Sponsored by the Institute of Remote Sensing and Digital Earth of CAS and Beijing Normal University | 
| Li Jia;  State Key Laboratory of Remote Sensing Science, Jointly Sponsored by the Institute of Remote Sensing and Digital Earth of CAS and Beijing Normal University | 
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   | WEP.P11.74: A NEW METHOD FOR ESTIMATION OF BARE SURFACE SOIL MOISTURE USING TIME-SERIES RADAR OBSERVATIONS | 
  | Chenzhou Liu;  Institute of Remote Sensing and Digital Earth, Chinese Academy of Sciences | 
| Jiancheng Shi;  Institute of Remote Sensing and Digital Earth, Chinese Academy of Sciences | 
| Tianjie Zhao;  Institute of Remote Sensing and Digital Earth, Chinese Academy of Sciences | 
| Shuai Gao;  Institute of Remote Sensing and Digital Earth, Chinese Academy of Sciences | 
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   | WEP.P11.75: DOWNSCALING SMOS DERIVED SOIL MOISTURE USING SEMI-EMPIRICAL AND PHYSICAL APPROACHES | 
  | Djamai Najib;  Ph.D / Université de Sherbrooke | 
| Ramata Magagi;  Université de Sherbrooke | 
| Kalifa Goïta;  Université de Sherbrooke, Centre d'applications et de recherches en télédétection (CARTEL) | 
| Olivier Merlin;  CNRS Researcher / CESBIO | 
| Mehdi Hosseini;  Postdoctoral fellow / Université de Sherbrooke | 
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   | WEP.P11.76: APPLYING MICROWAVE RADIATION RESPONSE DEPTH TO VALIDATE SOIL MOISTURE RETRIEVED FROM AMSR-E DATA | 
  | Tao Zhang;  Beijing Normal University | 
| Lixin Zhang;  Beijing Normal University | 
| Lingmei Jiang;  Beijing Normal University | 
| Shaojie Zhao;  Beijing Normal University | 
| Jun Liu;  Beijing Normal University | 
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   | WEP.P11.77: HOW DOES THE SPATIAL SCALE AND THE SELECTION OF ANCILLARY DATA INFLUENCE THE EVALUATION OF EO SOIL MOISTURE PRODUCTS? | 
  | Marcela Doubkova;  European Space Agency | 
| Alena Hegyiová;  Vienna University of Technology | 
| Wouter Dorigo;  Vienna University of Technology | 
| Albert van Dijk;  Australian National University | 
| Diego Fernández-Prieto;  European Space Agency | 
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   | WEP.P11.78: A PHYSICALLY-BASED ALGORITHM FOR SURFACE SOIL MOISTURE RETRIEVAL IN THE TIBET PLATEAU USING PASSIVE MICROWAVE REMOTE SENSING | 
  | Jiangyuan Zeng;  Institute of Remote Sensing and Digital Earth, Chinese Academy of Sciences | 
| Zhen Li;  Institute of Remote Sensing and Digital Earth, Chinese Academy of Sciences | 
| Quan Chen;  Institute of Remote Sensing and Digital Earth, Chinese Academy of Sciences | 
| Haiyun Bi;  Institute of Remote Sensing and Digital Earth, Chinese Academy of Sciences | 
| Ping Zhang;  Institute of Remote Sensing and Digital Earth, Chinese Academy of Sciences | 
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   | WEP.P11.79: THE SIMPLIFIED MODEL OF SOIL DIELECTRIC CONSTANT AND SOIL MOISTURE AT THE MAIN FREQUENCY POINTS OF MICROWAVE BAND | 
  | Quan Chen;  Center for Earth Observation and Digital Earth, Chinese Academy of Sciences | 
| Jiangyuan Zeng;  Center for Earth Observation and Digital Earth, Chinese Academy of Sciences | 
| Ping Zhang;  Center for Earth Observation and Digital Earth, Chinese Academy of Sciences | 
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   | WEP.P11.80: THE USE OF REGULARIZATION FOR IMPROVING PROFILE SOIL MOISTURE RETRIEVALS | 
  | Alexandra Konings;  Massachusetts Institute of Technology | 
| Dara Entekhabi;  Massachusetts Institute of Technology | 
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   | WEP.P11.81: SCALING ANALYSIS OF HETEROGNEITY IN SUPPORT OF SOIL MOISTURE RETRIEVAL AT LANDSCAPE LEVEL FOR LOW-FREQUENCY RADARS | 
  | Mariko Burgin;  University of Michigan | 
| Alireza Tabatabaeenejad;  University of Southern California | 
| Mahta Moghaddam;  University of Southern California | 
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   | WEP.P11.82: DEVELOPMENT OF A SIMPLE SCATTERING MODEL FOR RADAR BACKSCATTERS OF AGRICULTURAL FIELDS TO BE USED IN RETRIEVING SOIL MOISTURE | 
  | Soon-Koo Kweon;  Hongik University | 
| Ji-Hwan Hwang;  Hongik University | 
| Yisok Oh;  Hongik University | 
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   | WEP.P11.83: AN IMPEDANCE BASED APPROACH TO DETERMINE SOIL MOISTURE USING RADARSAT-2 DATA | 
  | Pooja Mishra;  Indian Institute of Technology Roorkee | 
| Shivangi Goel;  Indian Institute of Technology Roorkee | 
| Dharmendra Singh;  Indian Institute of Technology Roorkee | 
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   | WEP.P11.84: SOIL MOISTURE INVERSION AND VALIDATION BASED ON NEW REMOTE SENSING PLATFORM | 
  | Chen Du;  Peking University | 
| Qiming Qin;  Peking University | 
| Mingchao Liu;  Peking University | 
| Haixia Feng;  Peking University | 
| Heng Dong;  Peking University | 
| Nan Wang;  Peking University | 
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   | WEP.P11.85: ASSIMILATION OF SATELLITE-BASED ACTIVE AND PASSIVE MICROWAVE OBSERVATIONS FOR AGRICULTURAL FIELDS IN SOUTH AMERICA | 
  | Pang-Wei Liu;  University of Florida | 
| Alejandro Monsivais-Huertero;  Instituto Politécnico Nacional | 
| Jasmeet Judge;  University of Florida | 
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