TU2.L4: Passive Microwave Soil Moisture I |
| Session Type: Oral |
| Time: Tuesday, July 12, 10:30 - 12:10 |
| Location: Room 309B |
| Session Chair: Ruzbeh Akbar, University of Southern California |
| 10:30 - 10:50 |
| TU2.L4.1: SMOS AFTER SIX YEARS IN OPERATIONS: FIRST GLANCE AT CLIMATIC TRENDS AND ANOMALIES |
| Yann Kerr; Centre d'Études Spatiales de la BIOsphère (CESBIO) |
| Ali Mahmoodi; Centre d'Études Spatiales de la BIOsphère (CESBIO) |
| Ahmad Al Bitar; Centre d'Études Spatiales de la BIOsphère (CESBIO) |
| Arnaud Mialon; Centre d'Études Spatiales de la BIOsphère (CESBIO) |
| Simone Bircher; Centre d'Études Spatiales de la BIOsphère (CESBIO) |
| Beatriz Molero; Centre d'Études Spatiales de la BIOsphère (CESBIO) |
| Philippe Richaume; Centre d'Études Spatiales de la BIOsphère (CESBIO) |
| François Cabot; Centre d'Études Spatiales de la BIOsphère (CESBIO) |
| Nemesio Rodriguez-Fernandez; Centre d'Études Spatiales de la BIOsphère (CESBIO) |
| Marie Parrens; ECMWF |
| Amen Al-Yaari; INRA |
| Jean-Pierre Wigneron; INRA |
| 10:50 - 11:10 |
| TU2.L4.2: DEVELOPMENT AND VALIDATION OF THE GCOM-W AMSR2 SOIL MOISTURE PRODUCT |
| Rajat Bindlish; SSAI, USDA ARS HRSL |
| Thomas Jackson; U.S. Department of Agriculture ARS HRSL |
| Michael Cosh; U.S. Department of Agriculture ARS HRSL |
| Sushil Milak; SSAI, USDA ARS HRSL |
| Eni G. Njoku; NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory |
| Steven Chan; NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory |
| Mariko Burgin; NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory |
| Todd Caldwell; The University of Texas |
| Aaron Berg; University of Guelph |
| Heather McNairn; Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada |
| Jeffrey Walker; Monash University |
| Yijian Zeng; University of Twente |
| Zhongbo Su; University of Twente |
| Marc Thibeault; Comisión Nacional de Actividades Espaciales |
| Jose Martinez-Fernandez; Universidad de Salamanca |
| 11:10 - 11:30 |
| TU2.L4.3: SOIL MOISTURE AND RAINFALL RETRIEVAL FROM AMSR2 DATA IN ITALY |
| Emanuele Santi; Institute of Applied Physics - National Research Council (IFAC - CNR) |
| Simonetta Paloscia; Institute of Applied Physics - National Research Council (IFAC - CNR) |
| Simone Pettinato; Institute of Applied Physics - National Research Council (IFAC - CNR) |
| Luca Brocca; Research Institute for Geo-Hydrological Protection - National Research Council (IRPI- CNR) |
| Luca Ciabatta; Research Institute for Geo-Hydrological Protection - National Research Council (IRPI- CNR) |
| Christian Massari; Research Institute for Geo-Hydrological Protection - National Research Council (IRPI- CNR) |
| 11:30 - 11:50 |
| TU2.L4.4: EVALUATION OF THE FY-3B/MWRI SOIL MOISTURE PRODUCT ON THE CENTRAL TIBETAN PLATEAU |
| Yaokui Cui; Tsinghua University |
| Di Long; Tsinghua University |
| Yang Hong; Tsinghua University |
| Zhongying Han; China Agricultural University |
| Chao Zeng; Tsinghua University |
| Xueyan Hou; Tsinghua University |
| 11:50 - 12:10 |
| TU2.L4.5: SMOS SOIL MOISTURE DOWNSCALING BASED ON BACK PROPAGATION NEURAL NETWORK AND MODIS LST AND EVI |
| Hongtao Jiang; Wuhan University |
| Huanfeng Shen; Wuhan University |
