Evaluation of AMSR-E-Derived Soil Moisture Retrievals Using Ground-Based and PSR Airborne Data during SMEX02 | Zendy

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Evaluation of AMSR-E-Derived Soil Moisture Retrievals Using Ground-Based and PSR Airborne Data during SMEX02

Author(s) -

Matthew F. McCabe,

Huilin Gao,

Eric F. Wood

Publication year - 2005

Publication title -

journal of hydrometeorology

Language(s) - English

Resource type - Journals

SCImago Journal Rank - 1.733

H-Index - 123

eISSN - 1525-755X

pISSN - 1525-7541

DOI - 10.1175/jhm463.1

Subject(s) - environmental science , water content , radiometer , moderate resolution imaging spectroradiometer , remote sensing , data assimilation , hydrometeorology , vegetation (pathology) , brightness temperature , satellite , atmospheric sciences , microwave , meteorology , precipitation , geology , geography , medicine , physics , geotechnical engineering , pathology , quantum mechanics , engineering , aerospace engineering

A Land Surface Microwave Emission Model (LSMEM) is used to derive soil moisture estimates over Iowa during the Soil Moisture Experiment 2002 (SMEX02) field campaign, using brightness temperature data from the Advanced Microwave Sounding Radiometer (AMSR)-E satellite. Spatial distributions of the near-surface soil moisture are produced using the LSMEM, with data from the North American Land Data Assimilation System (NLDAS), vegetation and land surface parameters estimated through recent Moderate Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS) land surface products, and standard soil datasets. To assess the value of soil moisture estimates from the 10.7-GHz X-band sensor on the AMSR-E instrument, retrievals are evaluated against ground-based sampling and soil moisture estimates from the airborne Polarimetric Scanning Radiometer (PSR) operating at C band. The PSR offers high-resolution detail of the soil moisture distribution, which can be used to analyze heterogeneity within the scale of the AMSR-E pixel. Prelim...

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