TH1.L5: SMAP Soil Moisture I | 
| Session Type: Oral | 
| Time: Thursday, July 27, 08:00 - 09:40 | 
| Location: Room 203 BC | 
| Session Chairs: Amen Al-Yaari, INRA and Peggy O'Neill, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center | 
| 08:00 - 08:20 | 
| TH1.L5.1: ASSESSMENT OF VERSION 4 OF THE SMAP PASSIVE SOIL MOISTURE STANDARD PRODUCT | 
| Peggy E. O'Neill; NASA Goddard Space Flight Center | 
| Steven Chan; Jet Propulsion Laboratory | 
| Rajat Bindlish; NASA Goddard Space Flight Center | 
| Thomas J. Jackson; USDA-ARS | 
| Andreas Colliander; Jet Propulsion Laboratory | 
| Roy Scott Dunbar; Jet Propulsion Laboratory | 
| Fan Chen; USDA-ARS | 
| Jeffrey R. Piepmeier; NASA Goddard Space Flight Center | 
| Simon Yueh; Jet Propulsion Laboratory | 
| Dara Entekhabi; Massachusetts Institute of Technology | 
| Michael H. Cosh; USDA-ARS | 
| Todd Caldwell; The University of Texas | 
| Jeffrey Walker; Monash University | 
| X. Wu; Monash University | 
| Aaron Berg; University of Guelph | 
| Tracy Rowlandson; University of Guelph | 
| Anna Pacheco; AAFC | 
| Heather McNairn; AAFC | 
| Marc Thibeault; CONAE | 
| José Martínez-Fernández; CIALE | 
| Ángel Gonzalez-Zamora; CIALE | 
| Ernesto Lopez-Baeza; University of Valencia | 
| F. Udall; Technical University of Denmark | 
| Mark Seyfried; USDA-ARS | 
| David Bosch; USDA-ARS | 
| Patrick Starks; USDA-ARS | 
| C. Holifield; USDA-ARS | 
| John Prueger; USDA-ARS | 
| Z. Su; University of Twente | 
| R. van der Velde; University of Twente | 
| Jun Asanuma; University of Tsukuba | 
| Michael Palecki; NOAA | 
| Eric Small; University of Colorado | 
| Marek Zreda; University of Arizona | 
| Jean-Christophe Calvet; CNRM-GAME | 
| W. Crow; USDA-ARS | 
| Yann Kerr; Centre d’Etudes Spatiales de la Biosphère (CESBIO) - CNES | 
| 08:20 - 08:40 | 
| TH1.L5.2: MULTI-FREQUENCY RADIOMETER-BASED SOIL MOISTURE RETRIEVAL ALGORITHM PARAMETRIZATION USING IN SITU VALIDATION SITES | 
| Ying Gao; Monash University | 
| Andreas Colliander; NASA | 
| Mariko S. Burgin; NASA | 
| Jeffrey Walker; Monash University | 
| Chun Sik Chae; NASA | 
| Emmanuel Dinnat; NASA | 
| Michael H. Cosh; USDA | 
| 08:40 - 09:00 | 
| TH1.L5.3: SOIL MOISTURE RETRIEVAL WITH AIRBORNE PALS INSTRUMENT OVER AGRICULTURAL AREAS IN SMAPVEX16 | 
| Andreas Colliander; Jet Propulsion Laboratory, California Institute of Technology | 
| Thomas J. Jackson; United States Department of Agriculture, Agriculture Research Service | 
| Michael H. Cosh; United States Department of Agriculture, Agriculture Research Service | 
| Sidharth Misra; Jet Propulsion Laboratory, California Institute of Technology | 
| Rajat Bindlish; United States Department of Agriculture, Agriculture Research Service | 
| Jarrett Powers; Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada | 
| Heather McNairn; Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada | 
| Paul Bullock; University of Manitoba | 
| Aaron Berg; University of Guelph | 
| Ramata Magagi; University of Sherbrooke | 
| Peggy E. O'Neill; NASA Goddard Space Flight Center | 
| Simon Yueh; Jet Propulsion Laboratory, California Institute of Technology | 
| 09:00 - 09:20 | 
| TH1.L5.4: SPATIAL VARIABILITY IN MICROWAVE RADIOMETRIC SIGNATURES OF GROWING CORN AND SOYBEAN DURING SMAPVEX16-MICROWEX | 
| Pang-Wei Liu; University of Florida | 
| Jasmeet Judge; University of Florida | 
| Subit Chakrabarti; University of Florida | 
| Roger DeRoo; University of Michigan, Ann Arbor | 
| Susan Steele-Dunne; Delft University of Technology | 
| Brian Hornbuckle; Iowa State University | 
| Andreas Colliander; NASA | 
| Sidharth Misra; NASA | 
| Scott Tripp; NASA | 
| Barron Latham; NASA | 
| Ross Williamson; NASA | 
| Isaac Ramos Perez; NASA | 
| Simon Yueh; NASA | 
| Anthony W. England; University of Michigan Dearborn | 
| 09:20 - 09:40 | 
| TH1.L5.5: COSMIC-RAY NEUTRON PROBES FOR SATELLITE SOIL MOISTURE VALIDATION | 
| Carsten Montzka; Forschungszentrum Jülich | 
| Heye Bogena; Forschungszentrum Jülich | 
| Marek Zreda; University of Arizona | 
| Alessandra Monerris; Formerly at Monash University | 
| Ross Morrison; Centre for Ecology & Hydrology | 
| Sekhar Muddu; Indian Institute of Science | 
| Harry Vereecken; Forschungszentrum Jülich |