Two passive microwave missions are currently operating at L-band to monitor surface soil
moisture (SM) over continental surfaces. The SMOS sensor, based on an innovative …

Soil moisture is an essential climate variable influencing land–atmosphere interactions, an
essential hydrologic variable impacting rainfall–runoff processes, an essential ecological …

Abstract The NASA Soil Moisture Active Passive (SMAP) mission has utilized a set of core
validation sites as the primary methodology in assessing the soil moisture retrieval algorithm …

The National Aeronautics and Space Administration Soil Moisture Active Passive (SMAP)
mission has been validating its soil moisture (SM) products since the start of data production …

Long-term and large-scale remotely sensed and reanalysis soil moisture products of the
Tibetan Plateau are very important for understanding the land–atmosphere interactions in …

A frequently expressed viewpoint across the Earth science community is that global soil
moisture estimates from satellite L‐band (1.4 GHz) measurements represent moisture only …

Soil moisture (SM) is a key state variable in understanding the climate system through its
control on the land surface energy, water budget partitioning, and the carbon cycle …

The main goal of the Soil Moisture and Ocean Salinity (SMOS) mission over land surfaces is
the production of global maps of soil moisture (SM) and vegetation optical depth (τ) based …

Global soil moisture products retrieved from various remote sensing sensors are becoming
readily available with a nearly daily temporal resolution. Active and passive microwave …

The Soil Moisture and Ocean Salinity (SMOS) mission is European Space Agency (ESA's)
second Earth Explorer Opportunity mission, launched in November 2009. It is a joint …