The Soil Moisture Active Passive (SMAP) Mission

The Soil Moisture Active Passive Experiments (SMAPEx): Towards Soil Moisture Retrieval from the SMAP Mission

21 NASA's Soil Moisture Active Passive (SMAP) mission will carry the first combined spaceborne L-22 band radiometer and Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR) system with the objective of mapping near-23 surface soil moisture and freeze/thaw state globally every 2-3 days. SMAP will provide three soil 24 moisture products; (i) high-resolution from radar (~3km), (ii) low-resolution from radiometer 25 (~3...

Soil Moisture Active Passive (SMAP) Algorithm Theoretical Basis Document SMAP L2 & L3 Radar Soil Moisture (Active) Data Products

Soil Moisture Active Passive (SMAP) Algorithm Theoretical Basis Document

Algorithm Theoretical Basis Documents (ATBDs) provide the physical and mathematical descriptions of the algorithms used in the generation of science data products. The ATBDs include a description of variance and uncertainty estimates and considerations of calibration and validation, exception control and diagnostics. Internal and external data flows are also described. The SMAP ATBDs were revie...

Recovery of Soil Moisture Active Passive (SMAP) Instrument’s Active Measurements via Coupled Dictionary Learning

NASA’s Soil Moisture Active Passive (SMAP) satellite mission combines a passive L-band radiometer and an active Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR) instrument in order to monitor the near-surface soil moisture and freeze-thaw states globally, with a revisit frequency of 23 days. SMAP provides three soil moisture products: a high-resolution from the radar, a low-resolution from the radiometer, and an...

Soil Moisture Active/Passive (SMAP) L-Band Microwave Radiometer Post-Launch Calibration

 Abstract— The SMAP microwave radiometer is a fully-polarimetric L-band radiometer flown on the SMAP satellite in a 6 AM/ 6 PM sun-synchronous orbit at 685 km altitude. Since April, 2015, the radiometer is under calibration and validation to assess the quality of the radiometer L1B data product. Calibration methods including the SMAP L1B TA2TB (from Antenna Temperature (TA) to the Earth’s surf...