Paper Info
Title
An airborne simulation of the SMAP data stream
Abstract
Once launched in late 2014, NASA's Soil Moisture Active Passive (SMAP) mission will use a combination of a four-channel L-band radiometer and a three-channel L-band radar to provide high resolution global mapping of soil moisture and landscape freeze/thaw state every 2-3 days. These measurements are valuable to improved understanding of the Earth's water, energy, and carbon cycles, and to many applications of societal benefit. In order for soil moisture and freeze/thaw to be retrieved accurately from SMAP microwave data, prelaunch activities are concentrating on developing improved geophysical retrieval algorithms for each of the SMAP baseline products using data from simulations, from existing satellite missions such as SMOS, and from field campaign data, such as the SMAPEx airborne study in Australia discussed in this paper.
Year
DOI
Venue
2012
10.1109/IGARSS.2012.6351537
Geoscience and Remote Sensing Symposium
Keywords
Field
DocType
geophysical techniques,microwave measurement,radiometers,soil,Australia,Earth water cycle,NASA Soil Moisture Active Passive mission,SMAP baseline products,SMAP data stream,SMAP microwave data,SMAPEx airborne method,airborne simulation,carbon cycle,energy cycle,field campaign data,four-channel L-band radiometer,geophysical retrieval algorithms,landscape freeze state,landscape thaw state,three-channel L-band radar,Australia,SMAP,airborne data,geophysical retrievals,microwave,soil moisture
Meteorology,Radar,Satellite,Computer science,Data stream,Data retrieval,Remote sensing,Data simulation,Water content,Retrieval algorithm,Radiometer
Conference
ISSN
ISBN
Citations 
2153-6996 E-ISBN : 978-1-4673-1158-8
978-1-4673-1158-8
0
PageRank 
References 
Authors
0.34
0
9
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Jeffrey P. Walker123132.78
Peggy E. O'Neill213125.07
Xiaoling Wu3758.50
Ying Gao4394.73
Alessandra Monerris512217.62
Rocco Panciera617418.17
Thomas J. Jackson71368247.01
Douglas Gray89917.79
Dongryeol Ryu9589.54