Low-frequency microwave brightness temperature is strongly affected by near-surface soil
moisture; therefore, it can be assimilated into a land surface model to improve modeling of …

A radiative transfer model (RTM) that provides a link between model states and satellite
observations (eg, brightness temperature) can act as an observation operator in land data …

Surface soil moisture was retrieved from the L-band radiometer data collected in semiarid
regions during the Soil Moisture Experiment in 2004. The 2-D synthetic aperture radiometer …

This paper reports the progresses of AMSR-E soil moisture algorithm development at the
University of Tokyo. The first progress is made through improving the forward model, ie …

Information about vegetation status has widespread utility in agriculture, forestry, hydrology,
and land-atmosphere interaction study. This paper presents an attempt to monitor the …

This paper reports the development of a soil moisture retrieval algorithm for spaceborne
passive microwave radiometers. The algorithm is based on a modified radiative transfer …

This paper reports an application of a Land Data Assimilation System (LDAS) to the
Wenjiang site located near Chengdu, China, for the period from January to March, 2008 …

Soil moisture patterns, both spatial and temporal, are the key to understanding the spatial
variability and scale problems that are paramount in scientific hydrology, meteorology and …

In this study, we generated and compared two sets of soil moisture data in the North Africa
region, by using the land data assimilation system developed at the University of Tokyo …

From November 2006 to June 2007 a field experiment'Tanashi Experiment'was conducted
in a farm of the University of Tokyo, Japan. Continuous ground measurements of …