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Stan Livingston

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Assessment of the SMAP Level-4 Surface and Root-Zone Soil Moisture Product Using In Situ Measurements

2017

International audience; The Soil Moisture Active Passive (SMAP) mission Level-4 Surface and Root-Zone Soil Moisture (L4_SM) data product is generated by assimilating SMAP L-band brightness temperature observations into the NASA Catchment land surface model. The L4_SM product is available from 31 March 2015 to present (within 3 days from real time) and provides 3-hourly, global, 9-km resolution estimates of surface (0-5 cm) and root-zone (0-100 cm) soil moisture and land surface conditions. This study presents an overview of the L4_SM algorithm, validation approach, and product assessment versus in situ measurements. Core validation sites provide spatially averaged surface (root zone) soil m…

Atmospheric Science010504 meteorology & atmospheric sciences0208 environmental biotechnologyDrainage basin[SDU.STU]Sciences of the Universe [physics]/Earth SciencesSoil science02 engineering and technologyLand cover01 natural sciencesStandard deviationITC-HYBRIDData assimilationSoil temperatureWater content0105 earth and related environmental sciencesgeographygeography.geographical_feature_category020801 environmental engineeringSatellite observations[SDU]Sciences of the Universe [physics]Brightness temperatureITC-ISI-JOURNAL-ARTICLEData assimilationDNS root zoneEnvironmental scienceSoil moistureLand surface modelScale (map)Kalman filtersJournal of hydrometeorology
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Validation of SMAP surface soil moisture products with core validation sites

2017

Abstract The NASA Soil Moisture Active Passive (SMAP) mission has utilized a set of core validation sites as the primary methodology in assessing the soil moisture retrieval algorithm performance. Those sites provide well-calibrated in situ soil moisture measurements within SMAP product grid pixels for diverse conditions and locations. The estimation of the average soil moisture within the SMAP product grid pixels based on in situ measurements is more reliable when location specific calibration of the sensors has been performed and there is adequate replication over the spatial domain, with an up-scaling function based on analysis using independent estimates of the soil moisture distributio…

010504 meteorology & atmospheric sciencesMean squared error0211 other engineering and technologiesSoil Science02 engineering and technology01 natural scienceslaw.inventionlawValidationCalibrationComputers in Earth SciencesRadarSpatial domainWater content021101 geological & geomatics engineering0105 earth and related environmental sciencesRemote sensingRadiometerPixelGeologySMAP22/4 OA procedureITC-ISI-JOURNAL-ARTICLEEnvironmental scienceSatelliteSoil moisture
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