Assessment of version 4 of the SMAP passive soil moisture standard product
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Entekhabi, Dara
Date Issued
December 2017
Journal
2017 IEEE International Geoscience and Remote Sensing Symposium (IGARSS)
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Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE)
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O’Neill, P., et al. “Assessment of Version 4 of the SMAP Passive Soil Moisture Standard Product.” 2017 IEEE International Geoscience and Remote Sensing Symposium (IGARSS), 23-28 July, 2018, Fort Worth, Texas, IEEE, 2017, pp. 3941–44.
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Abstract
NASA's Soil Moisture Active Passive (SMAP) mission launched on January 31, 2015 into a sun-synchronous 6 am/6 pm orbit with an objective to produce global mapping of high-resolution soil moisture and freeze-thaw state every 2-3 days. The SMAP radiometer began acquiring routine science data on March 31, 2015 and continues to operate nominally. SMAP's radiometer-derived standard soil moisture product (L2SMP) provides soil moisture estimates posted on a 36-km fixed Earth grid using brightness temperature observations and ancillary data. A beta quality version of L2SMP was released to the public in October, 2015, Version 3 validated L2SMP soil moisture data were released in May, 2016, and Version 4 L2SMP data were released in December, 2016. Version 4 data are processed using the same soil moisture retrieval algorithms as previous versions, but now include retrieved soil moisture from both the 6 am descending orbits and the 6 pm ascending orbits. Validation of 19 months of the standard L2SMP product was done for both AM and PM retrievals using in situ measurements from global core cal/val sites. Accuracy of the soil moisture retrievals averaged over the core sites showed that SMAP accuracy requirements are being met.
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Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Department of Earth, Atmospheric, and Planetary Sciences
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https://doi.org/10.1109/IGARSS.2017.8127862
