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Alessandra Monerris

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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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SMOS REFLEX 2003: L-band emissivity characterization of vineyards

2005

The goal of the Soil Moisture and Ocean Salinity mission over land is to infer surface soil moisture from multiangular L-band radiometric measurements. As the canopy affects the microwave emission of land, it is necessary to characterize different vegetation layers. This paper presents the Reference Pixel L-Band Experiment (REFLEX), carried out in June-July 2003 at the Vale/spl grave/ncia Anchor Station, Spain, to study the effects of grapevines on the soil emission and on the soil moisture retrieval. A wide range of soil moisture (SM), from saturated to completely dry soil, was measured with the Universitat Polite/spl grave/cnica de Catalunya's L-band Automatic Radiometer (LAURA). Concurre…

Canopy010504 meteorology & atmospheric sciencesUniversitat Politecnica de CatalunyaOceanografia -- Instruments0211 other engineering and technologiesMicrowave measurements02 engineering and technologyradiometryAtmospheric sciencesSensors remots01 natural sciencesvineyardsHidrologia -- Aparells i instrumentssoil emissionWater contentGeophysical instrumentsmicrowave measurementValencia Anchor StationRemote sensing[INFO.INFO-IA] Computer Science [cs]/Computer Aided EngineeringL-band emissivitysoil roughnessVegetació -- CartografiaOpacitysoil temperaturevegetation mappingOceanographic instrumentsBoundary layer (Meteorology)VineyardsoilGeofísica -- Aparells i instrumentsCapa límit (Meteorologia)Hydrological instrumentsEmissivity:Enginyeria de la telecomunicació::Radiocomunicació i exploració electromagnètica::Circuits de microones radiofreqüència i ones mil·limètriques [Àrees temàtiques de la UPC]RadiometriaElectrical and Electronic EngineeringL-band microwave radiometry021101 geological & geomatics engineering0105 earth and related environmental sciencesRemote sensingReference Pixel L-Band ExperimentRadiometervegetation layersopacity15. Life on land[INFO.INFO-IA]Computer Science [cs]/Computer Aided EngineeringAD 2003 06 to 07SMOS REFLEX 2003:Enginyeria de la telecomunicació::Radiocomunicació i exploració electromagnètica::Teledetecció [Àrees temàtiques de la UPC]Soil waterMicroones -- MesuramentL-band Automatic RadiometerGeneral Earth and Planetary SciencesEnvironmental scienceRadiometryhydrological techniquesSoil Moisture and Ocean Salinity missionsoil moistureLAURAland microwave emissionalbedo
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