Soil Moisture Active Passive (SMAP) mission and the ESA Soil Moisture and Ocean Salinity (SMOS) missions provide brightness temperature and soil moisture estimates every 2-3 days. SMAP brightness temperature observations were compared with SMOS observations at 40 Degrees incidence angle. The brightness temperatures from the two missions are not consistent and have a bias of about 2.7K over land with respect to each other. SMAP and SMOS missions use different retrieval algorithms and ancillary datasets which result in further inconsistencies between the soil moisture products. The reprocessed constant-angle SMOS brightness temperatures were used in the SMAP soil moisture retrieval algorithm to develop a consistent multi-satellite product. The integrated product will have an increased global revisit frequency (1 day) and period of record that would be unattainable by either one of the satellites alone. Results from the development and validation of the integrated product will be presented.


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    Title :

    Integration of SMAP and SMOS L-Band Observations


    Contributors:
    R. Bindlish (author) / T. J. Jackson (author) / S. Chan (author) / A. Colliander (author) / Y. Kerr (author)

    Publication date :

    2017


    Size :

    4 pages


    Type of media :

    Report


    Type of material :

    No indication


    Language :

    English




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