WE3.L4: Validation of Remote Sensing Products: Methods, Specifications, and Networking Existing Networks I

Session Type: Oral
Time: Wednesday, July 13, 13:30 - 15:10
Location: Room 309B
Session Chairs: Xin Li, CAREERI, CAS and Tao Che, CAREERI, CAS
 
13:30 - 14:10
WE3.L4.1: SATELLITE-BASED SOIL MOISTURE VALIDATION AND FIELD EXPERIMENTS; SKYLAB TO SMAP
         Thomas Jackson; United States Department of Agriculture
         Jean-Pierre Wigneron; Institut National de la Recherche Agronomique
         Yann Kerr; Centre d'Études Spatiales de la BIOsphère (CESBIO)
         Michael Cosh; United States Department of Agriculture
         Andreas Colliander; Jet Propulsion Laboratory
         Jeffrey Walker; Monash University
         Rajat Bindlish; United States Department of Agriculture
 
14:10 - 14:30
WE3.L4.3: SOIL MOISTURE AND TEMPERATURE MEASURING NETWORKS IN THE TIBETAN PLATEAU AND THEIR APPLICATIONS IN VALIDATION OF MICROWAVE PRODUCTS
         Kun Yang; Institute of Tibetan Plateau Research
         Jun Qin; Institute of Tibetan Plateau Research
         Yingying Chen; Institute of Tibetan Plateau Research
         Menglei Han; Institute of Tibetan Plateau Research
         Long Zhao; Institute of Tibetan Plateau Research
 
14:30 - 14:50
WE3.L4.4: TOWARDS VALIDATION OF SMAP: SMAPEX-4 & -5
         Nan Ye; Monash University
         Jeffrey Walker; Monash University
         Xiaoling Wu; Monash University
         Thomas Jackson; United States Department of Agriculture
         Luigi Renzullo; CSIRO Land and Water
         Olivier Merlin; Center for the Study of the Biosphere from Space
         Christoph Rüdiger; Monash University
         Dara Entekhabi; Massachusetts Institute of Technology
         Richard de Jeu; Transmissivity B.V., Space Technology Center
         Edward Kim; NASA Goddard Space Flight Center
 
14:50 - 15:10
WE3.L4.5: AN UPSCALING ALGORITHM FOR VALIDATING SOIL MOSTURE REMOTE SENSING PRODUCTS BASED ON SPARSE OBSEVATION SITES
         Rui Jin; Cold and Arid Regions Environmental and Engineering Research Institute, Chinese Academy of Sciences
         Jian Kang; Cold and Arid Regions Environmental and Engineering Research Institute, Chinese Academy of Sciences