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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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| Version 4 of the SMAP Level-4 Soil Moisture Algorithm and Data Product | Reichle, Rolf H., Liu, Qing, Koster, Randal D., Crow, Wade T., De Lannoy, Gabrielle J. M., Kimball, John S., Ardizzone, Joseph V., Bosch, David, Colliander, Andreas, Cosh, Michael, Kolassa, Jana, Mahanama, Sarith P., Prueger, John, Starks, Patrick, Walker, Jeffrey P. | Soil Temperature, Soil Moisture/Water Content | ||
| An initial assessment of a SMAP soil moisture disaggregation scheme using TIR surface evaporation data over the continental United States | Mishra, Vikalp, Ellenburg, W. Lee, Griffin, Robert E., Mecikalski, John R., Cruise, James F., Hain, Christopher R., Anderson, Martha C. | Soil Moisture/Water Content, Soil Temperature | ||
| Analysis of the Radar Vegetation Index and Potential Improvements | Szigarski, Christoph, Jagdhuber, Thomas, Baur, Martin, Thiel, Christian, Parrens, Marie, Wigneron, Jean-Pierre, Piles, Maria, Entekhabi, Dara | Brightness Temperature, SIGMA NAUGHT, Soil Moisture/Water Content | ||
| Characterization of higher-order scattering from vegetation with SMAP measurements | Feldman, Andrew F., Akbar, Ruzbeh, Entekhabi, Dara | Soil Moisture/Water Content, Soil Temperature | ||
| Estimating Soil Evaporation Using Drying Rates Determined from | Small, Eric E., Badger, Andrew M., Abolafia-Rosenzweig, Ronnie, Livneh, Ben | Soil Moisture/Water Content, Soil Temperature, Surface Pressure, Longwave Radiation, Shortwave Radiation, Surface Temperature, Evaporation, Humidity, Convection, Surface Winds, Rain, Land Surface Temperature | ||
| Estimating time-dependent vegetation biases in the SMAP soil moisture product | Zwieback, Simon, Colliander, Andreas, Cosh, Michael H., Martinez-Fernandez, Jose, McNairn, Heather, Starks, Patrick J., Thibeault, Marc, Berg, Aaron | Longwave Radiation, Shortwave Radiation, Soil Heat Budget, Soil Heat Budget, Soil Temperature, Soil Temperature, Soil Infiltration, Soil Infiltration, Soil Moisture/Water Content, Surface Soil Moisture, Root Zone Soil Moisture, Soil Moisture/Water Content, Evaporation, Surface Water, Runoff Rate, Average Flow, Average Flow, Precipitation, Snow/Ice, Snow Depth, Snow Melt, Snow/Ice Temperature, Leaf Area Index (LAI), Leaf Area Index (LAI), Surface Pressure, Heat Flux, Surface Temperature, Humidity, Evapotranspiration, Surface Winds, Rain, Precipitation Rate, Snow, Land Surface Temperature, Snow Water Equivalent, Runoff, Land Use/Land Cover Classification, Vegetation Index, Normalized Difference Vegetation Index (NDVI), Enhanced Vegetation Index (EVI) |
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| Physics-based modeling of active and passive microwave covariations over vegetated surfaces | Jagdhuber, Thomas, Konings, Alexandra G., McColl, Kaighin A., Alemohammad, Seyed Hamed, Das, Narendra Narayan, Montzka, Carsten, Link, Moritz, Akbar, Ruzbeh, Entekhabi, Dara | Brightness Temperature, SIGMA NAUGHT, Soil Moisture/Water Content | ||
| Retrieving landscape freeze/thaw state from Soil Moisture Active Passive (SMAP) radar and radiometer measurements | Derksen, Chris, Xu, Xiaolan, Scott Dunbar, R., Colliander, Andreas, Kim, Youngwook, Kimball, John S., Black, T. Andrew, Euskirchen, Eugenie, Langlois, Alexandre, Loranty, Michael M., Marsh, Philip, Rautiainen, Kimmo, Roy, Alexandre, Royer, Alain, Stephens, Jilmarie | Freeze/Thaw, SIGMA NAUGHT, Transition Direction, Soil Moisture/Water Content, ORBITAL CHARACTERISTICS, RADAR IMAGERY | ||
| Soil moisture retrieval from SMAP: a validation and error analysis study using ground-based observations over the little Washita watershed | Chen, Quan, Zeng, Jiangyuan, Cui, Chenyang, Li, Zhen, Chen, Kun-Shan, Bai, Xiaojing, Xu, Jia | Brightness Temperature, SIGMA NAUGHT, Soil Moisture/Water Content | ||
| SMAP radar receiver measures land surface freeze/thaw state through capture of forward-scattered L-band signals | Chew, Clara, Lowe, Stephen, Parazoo, Nicholas, Esterhuizen, Stephan, Oveisgharan, Shadi, Podest, Erika, Zuffada, Cinzia, Freedman, Adam | Freeze/Thaw, SIGMA NAUGHT, Transition Direction | ||
| Synergistic use of AirMOSS P-band SAR with the SMAP L-band radar-radiometer for soil moisture retrieval | Akbar, R., Chen, R., Tabatabaeenejad, A., Moghaddam, M. | Brightness Temperature, SIGMA NAUGHT, Soil Moisture/Water Content |
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