... the downscaled soil moisture estimates and then used to correct the soil moisture products from Advanced Microwave Scanning Radiometer–EOS (AMSR-E). The 1-km downscaled soil moisture maps display greater details on the spatial pattern of soil moisture distribution. Two sets of ground-based measurements...

...Naira Chaouch; Robert Leconte; Ramata Magagi; Marouane Temimi; Reza Khanbilvardi Abstract An approach is proposed to estimate soil moisture from Advanced Microwave Scanning Radiometer for the Earth Observing System (AMSR-E) 6.9 GHz passive microwave observations. The approach was evaluated over two...

...V. Sridhar; W.T.A. Jaksa; Bin Fang; Venkat Lakshmi; Kenneth G. Hubbard; Xin Jin Abstract Advanced Microwave Scanning Radiometer-Earth Observing System (AMSR-E) soil moisture data products are proven to be useful across various regions around the world. However, numerous studies have suggested...

... and effect relationship—increased irrigation, increased crop biomass, increased ET. Their findings further explained the drastic reduction of the Krishna River discharge because of developed irrigation and storage structures in the past decades. AMSR-E, Advanced Microwave Scanning Radiometer ASCAT...

... of the Advanced Microwave Scanning Radiometer (AMSR-E) validation program, the Soil Moisture Experiments in 2002 (SMEX02) were conducted near Ames, IA, measuring soil water content over a 5000 km 2 domain. Jacobs et al. (2004) and Joshi et al. (2011) examined detailed field scale temporal stability patterns...

... passive microwave observations from a ground-based L-band radiometer that mimics the future NASA Soil Moisture Active Passive (SMAP) sensor that will be launched in 2014. This study used radiometric and in situ soil moisture data obtained from the NOAA-CREST–Soil Moisture Advanced Radiometric Test Bed...

... hydraulic property estimation using remote sensing is presented. AMSR-E, Advanced Microwave Scanning Radiometer ANN, artificial neural network BNN, Bayesian framework expanded multi-scale ANN technique ESA, European Space Agency ESTAR, Electronically Scanned Thinned Array Radiometer ET...

... Scanning Radiometer ASCAT, Advanced Scatterometer CRNP, cosmic ray neutron probe RTM, radiative transfer model SMAP, Soil Moisture Active Passive SMOS, Soil Moisture and Ocean Salinity In the past two decades microwave remote sensing has proven successful for estimating dielectric properties...

... to 0.92, 1.60 to 2.26, and 3.53 to 11.7 J1rn. The IFOV is 15 m in the near- and short- wavelength IR and 60 m in the thermal IR region. This instrument is planned for EOS-A. Advanced Microwave Scanning Radiometer (AMSR) (NASDA) AMSR is a microwave radiometer for the global observation of atmospheric water...

...Fig. 2. Study areas: (a) the Brown (BRW) site in Illinois, (b) the Walnut Creek (WC 11–14) sites in Iowa based on Polarimetric Scanning Radiometer (PSR) and Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS), and (c) the Lubbock site in Texas based on Advanced Microwave Scanning Radiometer...

... the MetOp (Meteorological Operational) satellite (since 2007), (ii) the Advanced Microwave Scanning Radiometer for Earth Observing System, AMSR-E, on-board NASA’s Aqua satellite (since 2002), which will be continued by the recently launched AMSR-2, and finally (iii) the WindSAT polarimetric microwave...

...) analyzed the performance of different classification algorithms on fused data sets of Radarsat-1, ASAR, SPOT, and Landsat. AirSAR: NASA's Airborne Synthetic Aperture Radar AMSR-E: Advanced Microwave Scanning Radiometer onboard the Earth Observing System ALOS: Advanced Land Observing Satellite...

... record rather than on a year-by-year basis , when all three profiles attain suitable calibrations. AMSR-E, Advanced Microwave Scanning Radiometer–Earth Observing System satellite COSMOS, COsmic-ray Soil Moisture Observing System RMSD, root-mean-squared difference SCAN, Soil Climate Analysis...

... and the most widely available. Exploration in areas of consistently poor illumination because of meteorologic conditions will bring about increased use of the longer wavelength (microwave) equipment. Cloud penetration is a function of wavelength; passive microwave radiometers, side looking radar...

... remote sensing, and in situ measurements of soil moisture were collected synoptically for the purpose of comparison of methods, and to validate satellite soil moisture products from the Advanced Microwave Scanning Radiometer on the NASA Aqua satellite (see http://www.ars.usda.gov/main/site_main.htm...

... microwave remote sensing radiometer mounted on a crane. Initially, it was considered that at the high frequencies used in most measurement systems, the permittivity response of soils was frequency independent. Recent studies have shown, however, that clay minerals show distinct dielectric dispersion...

...Fig. 15. Weekly moving average values of Advanced Microwave Scanning Radiometer-EOS (AMSR-E) soil moisture at four selected meteorological stations from 2003 to 2011 (inset for 2010). ...