@inproceedings{cca11a67aa7149d89c1c2305a5d5532d,
title = "Towards validation of SMAP: SMAPEX-4 & -5",
abstract = "The L-band (1 - 2 GHz) microwave remote sensing has been widely acknowledged as the most promising method to monitor regional to global soil moisture. Consequently, the Soil Moisture Active Passive (SMAP) satellite applied this technique to provide global soil moisture every 2 to 3 days. To verify the performance of SMAP, the fourth and fifth campaign of SMAP Experiments (SMAPEx-4 & -5) were carried out at the beginning of the SMAP operational phase in the Murrumbidgee River catchment, southeast Australia. The airborne radar and radiometer observations together with ground sampling on soil moisture, vegetation water content, and surface roughness were collected in coincidence with SMAP overpasses. The SMAPEx-4 & -5 data sets will benefit to SMAP post-launch calibration and validation under Australian land surface conditions.",
keywords = "SMAP, active and passive microwave remote sensing, airborne field experiment, validation",
author = "Nan Ye and Jeffrey Walker and Xiaoling Wu and Thomas Jackson and Luigi Renzullo and Olivier Merlin and Christoph Rudiger and Dara Entekhabi and Richard Dejeu and Edward Kim",
note = "Publisher Copyright: {\textcopyright} 2016 IEEE.; 36th IEEE International Geoscience and Remote Sensing Symposium, IGARSS 2016 ; Conference date: 10-07-2016 Through 15-07-2016",
year = "2016",
month = nov,
day = "1",
doi = "10.1109/IGARSS.2016.7729897",
language = "English",
series = "International Geoscience and Remote Sensing Symposium (IGARSS)",
publisher = "Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc.",
pages = "3469--3472",
booktitle = "2016 IEEE International Geoscience and Remote Sensing Symposium, IGARSS 2016 - Proceedings",
address = "United States",
}