@inproceedings{8c3219c7b52945d4b8e04524a3f4f76d,
title = "Landscape freeze/thaw products from Soil Moisture Active/Passive (SMAP) radar and radiometer data",
abstract = "The NASA Soil Moisture Active Passive (SMAP) mission produced a daily landscape freeze/thaw product (L3-FT-A) at 3-km spatial resolution derived from ascending and descending orbits of SMAP high-resolution L-band (1.4 GHz) radar measurements. Following the loss of the SMAP radar in July 2015, coarser (36-km) footprint passive microwave retrievals from the SMAP radiometer were used to derive an alternative daily freeze/thaw product (L3-FT-P). This presentation will provide an overview of the development of both L3-FT products. Validation using in situ observations from core validation sites is used to illustrate differences in the sensitivity of the 3 km radar versus the 36 km radiometer measurements to the landscape freeze/thaw state.",
keywords = "SMAP, freeze/thaw, radar, radiometer",
author = "Xiaolan Xu and Dunbar, {R. Scott} and Chris Derksen and Andreas Colliander and John Kimball and Youngwook 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.2016.7729025",
language = "English",
series = "International Geoscience and Remote Sensing Symposium (IGARSS)",
publisher = "Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc.",
pages = "132--135",
booktitle = "2016 IEEE International Geoscience and Remote Sensing Symposium, IGARSS 2016 - Proceedings",
}