TU1.L4: SMAP Soil Moisture I |
| Session Type: Oral |
| Time: Tuesday, July 12, 08:20 - 10:00 |
| Location: Room 309B |
| Session Chairs: Peggy O'Neill, NASA and Xiwu Zhan, NOAA |
| 08:20 - 08:40 |
| TU1.L4.1: COMBINED ACTIVE AND PASSIVE MICROWAVE REMOTE SENSING OF SOIL MOISTURE FOR VEGETATED SURFACES AT L-BAND |
| Huanting Huang; University of Michigan, Ann Arbor |
| Tien-Hao Liao; University of Michigan, Ann Arbor |
| Leung Tsang; University of Michigan, Ann Arbor |
| Eni G. Njoku; Jet Propulsion Laboratory, California Institute of Technology |
| Andreas Colliander; Jet Propulsion Laboratory, California Institute of Technology |
| Thomas Jackson; U.S. Department of Agriculture, Agricultural Research Service, Hydrology and Remote Sensing Laboratory |
| Simon Yueh; Jet Propulsion Laboratory, California Institute of Technology |
| 08:40 - 09:00 |
| TU1.L4.2: SPATIAL DOWNSCALING OF SMAP PASSIVE MICROWAVE RADIOMETER SOIL MOISTURE USING VEGETATION INDEX AND SURFACE TEMPERATURE |
| Venkat Lakshmi; University of South Carolina |
| Huixuan Li; University of South Carolina |
| 09:00 - 09:20 |
| TU1.L4.3: FIRST APPLICATION OF REGRESSION ANALYSIS TO RETRIEVE SOIL MOISTURE FROM SMAP BRIGHTNESS TEMPERATURE OBSERVATIONS CONSISTENT WITH SMOS |
| Amen Al-Yaari; INRA |
| Jean-Pierre Wigneron; INRA |
| Yann Kerr; Centre d'Études Spatiales de la BIOsphère (CESBIO) |
| Nemesio Rodriguez-Fernandez; Centre d'Études Spatiales de la BIOsphère (CESBIO) |
| Peggy O'Neill; NASA |
| Thomas Jackson; U.S. Department of Agriculture |
| Gabrielle De Lannoy; KU Leuven |
| Ahmad Al Bitar; Centre d'Études Spatiales de la BIOsphère (CESBIO) |
| Arnaud Mialon; Centre d'Études Spatiales de la BIOsphère (CESBIO) |
| Philippe Richaume; Centre d'Études Spatiales de la BIOsphère (CESBIO) |
| Simon Yueh; Jet Propulsion Laboratory |
| 09:20 - 09:40 |
| TU1.L4.4: A PRELIMINARY ASSESSMENT OF THE SMAP RADIOMETER SOIL MOISTURE PRODUCT USING THREE IN-SITU NETWORKS |
| Jiangyuan Zeng; Institute of Remote Sensing and Digital Earth, Chinese Academy of Sciences |
| Kun-Shan Chen; Institute of Remote Sensing and Digital Earth, Chinese Academy of Sciences |
| Haiyun Bi; Institute of Geology, China Earthquake Administration |
| Quan Chen; Institute of Remote Sensing and Digital Earth, Chinese Academy of Sciences |
| Yuan Liu; ICube, UdS, CNRS |
| 09:40 - 10:00 |
| TU1.L4.5: METHOD FOR UPSCALING IN-SITU SOIL MOISTURE MEASUREMENTS FOR CALIBRATION AND VALIDATION OF SMAP SOIL MOISTURE PRODUCTS |
| Jane Whitcomb; University of Southern California |
| Daniel Clewley; Plymouth Marine Laboratory |
| Ruzbeh Akbar; University of Southern California |
| Agnelo Silva; University of Southern California |
| Aaron Berg; University of Guelph |
| Justin Adams; University of Guelph |
| Mahta Moghaddam; University of Southern California |
