NASA Soil Moisture Active Passive Mission Status and Science Highlights

• Main Authors: Yueh, Simon, Entekhabi, Dara, O'Neill, Peggy, Entin, Jared
• Format: Other/Unknown Material
• Language: unknown
• Published: 2017
• Subjects: Earth Resources and Remote Sensing; Arctic; Arctic Ocean; Canada; Yenisei River; Alaska; Siberia
• Online Access: http://hdl.handle.net/2060/20170007423

The Soil Moisture Active Passive (SMAP) observatory was launched January 31, 2015, and its L-band radiometer and radar instruments became operational during April 2015. This paper provides a summary of the quality assessment of its baseline soil moisture and freeze/thaw products as well as an overvi...