Publication Date:
2019-07-13
Description:
The L-band (1 - 2 GHz) microwave remote sensing has been widely acknowledged as the most promising method to monitor regional to global soil moisture. Consequently, the Soil Moisture Active Passive (SMAP) satellite applied this technique to provide global soil moisture every 2 to 3 days. To verify the performance of SMAP, the fourth and fifth campaign of SMAP Experiments (SMAPEx-4 -5) were carried out at the beginning of the SMAP operational phase in the Murrumbidgee River catchment, southeast Australia. The airborne radar and radiometer observations together with ground sampling on soil moisture, vegetation water content, and surface roughness were collected in coincidence with SMAP overpasses. The SMAPEx-4 and -5 data sets will benefit to SMAP post-launch calibration andvalidation under Australian land surface conditions.
Keywords:
Geosciences (General); Earth Resources and Remote Sensing
Type:
GSFC-E-DAA-TN41701
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Geoscience and Remote Sensing Symposium (IGARSS), 2016 International (e-ISSN 2153-7003); 3469-3472|Geoscience and Remote Sensing Symposium (IGARSS); Jul 10, 2016 - Jul 15, 2016; Beijing; China
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