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Publications Citing SMAP L-Band Radar Data

Browse a list of academic papers that cite data provided by NASA’s Soil Moisture Active Passive (SMAP) L-Band Radar.

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Impact of SAR-based vegetation attributes on the SMAP high-resolution soil moisture product Soil Moisture/Water Content, Soil Temperature
Peatlands and their carbon dynamics in northern high latitudes from 1990 to 2300: a process-based biogeochemistry model analysis Active Layer, Freeze/Thaw, Permafrost, Soil Depth
NASA's NMME-based S2S Hydrologic Forecast System for Food Insecurity Early Warning in Southern Africa Plant Phenology, Vegetation Index, Brightness Temperature, SIGMA NAUGHT, Soil Moisture/Water Content
Nitrogen fixing shrubs advance the pace of tall-shrub expansion in low-Arctic tundra SIGMA NAUGHT, Soil Moisture/Water Content
The first polarimetric GNSS-Reflectometer instrument in space improves the SMAP mission's sensitivity over densely vegetated areas Soil Moisture/Water Content, Soil Temperature
Seasonal soil moisture and crop yield prediction with fifth-generation seasonal forecasting system (SEAS5) long-range meteorological forecasts in a land ... Evapotranspiration, Latent Heat Flux, Leaf Area Index (LAI), Fraction Of Absorbed Photosynthetically Active Radiation (fapar), Terrain Elevation, Digital Elevation/Terrain Model (DEM), Topographical Relief Maps, Land Use/Land Cover Classification, Brightness Temperature, SIGMA NAUGHT, Soil Moisture/Water Content
Using Robust Regression to Retrieve Soil Moisture from CyGNSS Data Brightness Temperature, SIGMA NAUGHT, Soil Moisture/Water Content, Soil Temperature
A Central Asia hydrologic monitoring dataset for food and water security applications in Afghanistan Surface Pressure, Heat Flux, Longwave Radiation, Shortwave Radiation, Air Temperature, Specific Humidity, Evapotranspiration, Wind Speed, Rain, Snow, Soil Moisture/Water Content, Soil Temperature, Land Surface Temperature, Snow Cover, Snow Depth, Snow Water Equivalent, Runoff, RADAR IMAGERY, Terrain Elevation, Topographical Relief Maps, Digital Elevation/Terrain Model (DEM), Reflectance, Total Surface Water, Brightness Temperature, SIGMA NAUGHT, Precipitation, Precipitation Amount, Precipitation Rate
A clearer view of Earth's water cycle via neural networks and satellite data SIGMA NAUGHT, Soil Moisture/Water Content
Assessment of ERA5-Land Volumetric Soil Water Layer Product Using In Situ and SMAP Soil Moisture Observations Soil Moisture/Water Content, Soil Temperature
Intercomparison of electromagnetic scattering models for delay-Doppler maps along a CYGNSS land track with topography Soil Temperature, Soil Moisture/Water Content, SIGMA NAUGHT, Digital Elevation/Terrain Model (DEM), Land Use/Land Cover Classification, Normalized Difference Vegetation Index (NDVI), Soil Classification, Soil Texture, Surface Roughness, Radar Cross-Section, Radar Reflectivity, Flight Data Logs, Radar Cross-Section, Radar Reflectivity
Validation of NASA SMAP Satellite Soil Moisture Products over the Desert Brightness Temperature, SIGMA NAUGHT, Soil Moisture/Water Content
Theory of Microwave Remote Sensing of Vegetation Effects, SoOp and Rough SIGMA NAUGHT, Soil Moisture/Water Content
Assimilating satellite-based soil moisture observations in a land surface model: The effect of spatial resolution Brightness Temperature, SIGMA NAUGHT, Soil Moisture/Water Content
Assimilation of SMAP brightness temperature observations in the GEOS landatmosphere data assimilation system Soil Moisture/Water Content, Soil Temperature
On the Relationship Between Radar Backscatter and Radiometer Brightness Temperature From SMAP Brightness Temperature, SIGMA NAUGHT, Soil Moisture/Water Content
The contributions of gauge-based precipitation and SMAP brightness temperature observations to the skill of the SMAP Level-4 soil moisture product Soil Temperature, Soil Moisture/Water Content
Uncertainty analysis of eleven multisource soil moisture products in the third pole environment based on the three-corned hat method SIGMA NAUGHT, Soil Moisture/Water Content
An intercomparison study of algorithms for downscaling smap radiometer soil moisture retrievals Soil Moisture/Water Content, Soil Temperature
Assessing the impact of soil layer depth specification on the observability of modeled soil moisture and brightness temperature Soil Moisture/Water Content, Soil Temperature
Estimation of vegetation structure parameters from SMAP radar intensity observations Brightness Temperature, SIGMA NAUGHT, Soil Moisture/Water Content, ORBITAL CHARACTERISTICS, RADAR IMAGERY
Improving SMAP freeze-thaw retrievals for pavements using effective soil temperature from GEOS-5: Evaluation against in situ road temperature data over the US Brightness Temperature, SIGMA NAUGHT, Soil Moisture/Water Content
Improved Understanding of the Link Between Catchment-Scale Vegetation Accessible Storage and Satellite-Derived Soil Water Index Brightness Temperature, SIGMA NAUGHT, Soil Moisture/Water Content
Estimation of active-passive microwave covariation using SMAP and Sentinel-1 data Brightness Temperature, SIGMA NAUGHT, Soil Moisture/Water Content
Gap filling of highresolution soil moisture for SMAP/sentinel1: a twolayer machine learningbased framework Land Use/Land Cover Classification, RADAR IMAGERY, Terrain Elevation, Digital Elevation/Terrain Model (DEM), Land Surface Temperature, Emissivity, Leaf Characteristics, Photosynthetically Active Radiation, Leaf Area Index (LAI), Fraction Of Absorbed Photosynthetically Active Radiation (fapar), Brightness Temperature, SIGMA NAUGHT, Soil Moisture/Water Content

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