We use existing brightness temperature (TB) data from the Soil Moisture Active Passive (SMAP) mission and Advanced Microwave Scanning Radiometer 2 (AMSR2) mission to investigate L- and C-band ...

The rocket carrying the SMAP soil moisture observatory lifts off Jan. 31 at California's Vandenberg AFB. (Bill Ingalls photo courtesy NASA) A United Launch Alliance Delta II rocket with the Soil ...

Two hours before SMAP’s early morning launch Saturday, Vanessa Escobar was on NASA TV, explaining a new effort to link the soil-moisture-measuring satellite with the people who will put it to use.

This article demonstrates how to perform these tasks with SMAP soil moisture data over the Western United States. Zoom into the Western United States and turn on the Coastlines / Borders / Roads ...

Their monthly SM inversion results for 2022 were compared with the Soil Moisture Active Passive (SMAP) products, with Pearson's correlation coefficients (R) all greater than 0.91 and root mean square ...

SMAP is ready to go! The Soil Moisture Active Passive (SMAP) mission, which will map the water content of soils worldwide, passed its “launch readiness review” on January 27. There is also a favorable ...

Soil moisture (SM) has a significant impact on the earth's ecosystem ... Spatial comparisions of the estimated SM (1 × 1 km). CLDAS SM, SMAP SM on fourteen consecutive days from April 1 to April 14, ...

Version 105 and Near Real-time SMAP L2 Radiometer Half-Orbit 36 km EASE-Grid Soil Moisture, Version 107 data sets, accessible through the NASA National Snow and Ice Data Center Distributed Active ...

To generate the estimates, the research team first calculated the amount of water stored in plants using data from NASA’s Soil Moisture Active Passive Mission (SMAP) satellite mission, which provided ...

A research team from the Aerospace Information Research Institute (AIR) of the Chinese Academy of Sciences has developed a ...

The United States Golf Association (USGA) today announced the launch of the USGA Moisture Meter. The easy-to-use tool provides golf course superintendents precise and consistent data regarding soil ...

Get Instant Summarized Text (Gist) Extreme heat waves in Eastern North America and Central Europe could become twice as intense as previously projected due to soil moisture variations. When global ...