MO4.10: Soil Moisture: Aquarius and SMAP

Session Type: Oral
Time: Monday, July 23, 15:40 - 17:20
Location: Room 2
Session Chair: Rajat Bindlish, US Department of Agriculture - Agricultural Research Service
 
MO4.10.1: DEVELOPMENT OF A SOIL MOISTURE PRODUCT USING AQUARIUS/SAC-D OBSERVATIONS
         Thomas Jackson; USDA
         Rajat Bindlish; USDA
         Tianjie Zhao; USDA
         Thomas Holmes; USDA
         Michael Cosh; USDA
         Peggy O'Neill; NASA Goddard Space Flight Center
         Steven Chan; NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory
         Eni Njoku; NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory
 
MO4.10.2: AN OBSERVING SYSTEM SIMULATION EXPERIMENT (OSSE) FOR THE AQUARIUS/SAC-D SOIL MOISTURE PRODUCT: AN INVESTIGATION OF FORWARD/RETRIEVAL MODEL ASYMMETRIES
         Pablo Perna; Instituto de Astronomía y Física del Espacio
         Cintia Bruscantini; Instituto de Astronomía y Física del Espacio
         Paolo Ferrazzoli; Tor Vergata University of Rome, Ingegneria – DISP
         Francisco Grings; Instituto de Astronomía y Física del Espacio
         Haydee Karszenbaum; Instituto de Astronomía y Física del Espacio
         Wade Crow; USDA
 
MO4.10.3: TOPOGRAPHIC SIGNATURES IN AQUARIUS RADIOMETER/SCATTEROMETER RESPONSE: INITIAL RESULTS
         Cuneyt Utku; Universities Space Research Association / NASA Goddard Space Flight Center
         David Le Vine; NASA Goddard Space Flight Center
 
MO4.10.4: AN INTEGRATED ACTIVE-PASSIVE SOIL MOISTURE RETRIEVAL ALGORITHM FOR SMAP FOR BARE SURFACES
         Ruzbeh Akbar; University of Southern California
         Mahta Moghaddam; University of Southern California
 
MO4.10.5: NUMERICAL COMPUTATION OF THE L-BAND EMISSION AND SCATTERING OF SOIL LAYERS WITH CONSIDERATION OF MOISTURE AND TEMPERATURE GRADIENTS.
         François Demontoux; University Bordeaux 1 - IMS Laboratory
         Heather Lawrence; Centre d'Etudes Spatiales de la Biosphère
         Jean-Pierre Wigneron; Institut National de la Recherche Agronomique (INRA) - Unité EPHYSE
         Valery Mironov; Kirensky Institute of Physics, Siberian Branch, Russian Academy of Sciences
         Liudmila Kosolapova; Kirensky Institute of Physics, Siberian Branch, Russian Academy of Sciences
         Philippe Paillou; University of Bordeaux 1 – Laboratory LAB
         Yann H. Kerr; Centre d'Etudes Spatiales de la Biosphère