Sea surface salinity estimates from spaceborne L-band radiometers: An overview of the first decade of observation (2010–2019)

N Reul, SA Grodsky, M Arias, J Boutin, R Catany… - Remote Sensing of …, 2020 - Elsevier
Operated since the end of 2009, the European Space Agency (ESA) Soil Moisture and
Ocean Salinity (SMOS) satellite mission is the first orbiting radiometer that collects regular …

Four decades of microwave satellite soil moisture observations: Part 1. A review of retrieval algorithms

L Karthikeyan, M Pan, N Wanders, DN Kumar… - Advances in Water …, 2017 - Elsevier
The satellite based passive (radiometer) and active (radar) microwave sensors enhanced
our ability to retrieve soil moisture at global scales. It has been almost four decades since …

Development and assessment of the SMAP enhanced passive soil moisture product

SK Chan, R Bindlish, P O'Neill, T Jackson… - Remote sensing of …, 2018 - Elsevier
Abstract Launched in January 2015, the National Aeronautics and Space Administration
(NASA) Soil Moisture Active Passive (SMAP) observatory was designed to provide frequent …

Validation of soil moisture data products from the NASA SMAP mission

A Colliander, RH Reichle, WT Crow… - IEEE Journal of …, 2021 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
The National Aeronautics and Space Administration Soil Moisture Active Passive (SMAP)
mission has been validating its soil moisture (SM) products since the start of data production …

Global-scale evaluation of SMAP, SMOS and ASCAT soil moisture products using triple collocation

F Chen, WT Crow, R Bindlish, A Colliander… - Remote Sensing of …, 2018 - Elsevier
Global-scale surface soil moisture products are currently available from multiple remote
sensing platforms. Footprint-scale assessments of these products are generally restricted to …

SMAP soil moisture improves global evapotranspiration

AJ Purdy, JB Fisher, ML Goulden, A Colliander… - Remote Sensing of …, 2018 - Elsevier
Accurate estimation of global evapotranspiration (ET) is essential to understand water cycle
and land-atmosphere feedbacks in the Earth system. Satellite-driven ET models provide …

[HTML][HTML] L-band vegetation optical depth and effective scattering albedo estimation from SMAP

AG Konings, M Piles, N Das, D Entekhabi - Remote Sensing of …, 2017 - Elsevier
Over land the vegetation canopy affects the microwave brightness temperature by emission,
scattering and attenuation of surface soil emission. Attenuation, as represented by …

New SMOS Sea Surface Salinity with reduced systematic errors and improved variability

J Boutin, JL Vergely, S Marchand, F d'Amico… - Remote Sensing of …, 2018 - Elsevier
Salinity observing satellites have the potential to monitor river fresh-water plumes
mesoscale spatio-temporal variations better than any other observing system. In the case of …

SMAP L-band microwave radiometer: Instrument design and first year on orbit

JR Piepmeier, P Focardi, KA Horgan… - … on Geoscience and …, 2017 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
The Soil Moisture Active-Passive (SMAP) L-band microwave radiometer is a conical
scanning instrument designed to measure soil moisture with 4% volumetric accuracy at 40 …

Estimating tropical cyclone surface winds: Current status, emerging technologies, historical evolution, and a look to the future

JA Knaff, CR Sampson, ME Kucas, CJ Slocum… - … Cyclone Research and …, 2021 - Elsevier
This article provides a review of tropical cyclone (TC) surface wind estimation from an
operational forecasting perspective. First, we provide a summary of operational forecast …