Assessment of version 4 of the SMAP passive soil moisture standard product
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 M...
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| description | 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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| spelling | mit-1721.1/1174652022-09-30T19:36:24Z Assessment of version 4 of the SMAP passive soil moisture standard product Entekhabi, Dara Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Department of Earth, Atmospheric, and Planetary Sciences Entekhabi, Dara 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. 2018-08-22T14:43:43Z 2018-08-22T14:43:43Z 2017-12 2017-07 2018-08-02T15:08:18Z Article http://purl.org/eprint/type/ConferencePaper 978-1-5090-4951-6 http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/117465 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. https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8362-4761 http://dx.doi.org/10.1109/IGARSS.2017.8127862 2017 IEEE International Geoscience and Remote Sensing Symposium (IGARSS) Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0/ application/pdf Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) Other repository |
| spellingShingle | Entekhabi, Dara Assessment of version 4 of the SMAP passive soil moisture standard product |
| title | Assessment of version 4 of the SMAP passive soil moisture standard product |
| title_full | Assessment of version 4 of the SMAP passive soil moisture standard product |
| title_fullStr | Assessment of version 4 of the SMAP passive soil moisture standard product |
| title_full_unstemmed | Assessment of version 4 of the SMAP passive soil moisture standard product |
| title_short | Assessment of version 4 of the SMAP passive soil moisture standard product |
| title_sort | assessment of version 4 of the smap passive soil moisture standard product |
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