His research interests involve the application of microwave remote sensing in hydrology. He is currently working on soil moisture estimation from microwave sensors and their subsequent application in land surface hydrology. He has developed soil moisture algorithms for multiple airborne sensors (PSR and PALS). He has worked on soil moisture algorithms from AMSR-E, SMOS, AMSR2, Aquarius, and SMAP missions. He is a science team member of NISAR, Aquarius, and GCOM-W missions. He is the SMAP deputy project scientist.
Rajat Bindlish
(RSCH AST, EARTH SCIENCES REMOTE SENS.)
| Email: | rajat.bindlish@nasa.gov |
| Phone: | 301.286.8753 |
| Org Code: | 617 |
| Address: |
NASA/GSFC Mail Code 617 Greenbelt, MD 20771 |
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Missions & Projects
Brief Bio
Education
1996 – 2000 Ph.D., Civil and Environmental Engineering, Pennsylvania State University
1994 – 1996 M.Sc., Civil and Environmental Engineering, Pennsylvania State University
1989 – 1993 Bachelor of Technology, Civil Engineering, Indian Institute of Technology, Bombay, India
Professional Societies
American Geophysical Union (AGU)
Member
1994 - Present
IEEE Geosciences and Remote Sensing
Senior Member
1999 - Present
Awards
IEEE GRSS Highest Impact paper award, 2015
NASA Group Achievement Award, Aquarius/SAC-D Mission, 2013.
NASA Group Achievement Award. SMAP Science and Cal/Val Team. 2016
Selected Publications
Refereed
2024. "Wildfire Threshold Detection and Progression Monitoring Using an Improved Radar Vegetation Index in California." Remote Sensing 16 (16): 3050 [10.3390/rs16163050] [Journal Article/Letter]
2024. "An Analysis of a Commercial GNSS-R Soil Moisture Dataset." IEEE Journal of Selected Topics in Applied Earth Observations and Remote Sensing 1-14 [10.1109/jstars.2024.3449773] [Journal Article/Letter]
2024. "Harnessing SMAP satellite soil moisture product to optimize soil properties to improve water resource management for agriculture." Agricultural Water Management 300 108918 [10.1016/j.agwat.2024.108918] [Journal Article/Letter]
2024. "SNOOPI: Demonstrating Earth remote sensing using P-band signals of opportunity (SoOp) on a CubeSat." Advances in Space Research 73 (6): 2855-2879 [10.1016/j.asr.2023.10.050] [Journal Article/Letter]
2024. "Droughts impede water balance recovery from fires in the Western United States." Nature Ecology & Evolution [10.1038/s41559-023-02266-8] [Journal Article/Letter]
2024. "NISAR Time-Series Ratio Algorithm for Soil Moisture Retrieval: Prelaunch Evaluation With SMAPVEX12 Field Campaign Data." IEEE Journal of Selected Topics in Applied Earth Observations and Remote Sensing 17 12959-12968 [10.1109/jstars.2024.3422071] [Journal Article/Letter]
2024. "Modeling Soil Moisture Retrieval Errors in the Time-Series Ratio Method." IEEE Geoscience and Remote Sensing Letters 21 1-5 [10.1109/lgrs.2024.3353135] [Journal Article/Letter]
2023. "Soil Moisture and Sea Surface Salinity Derived from Satellite-Borne Sensors." Surveys in Geophysics 44 (5): 1449-1487 [10.1007/s10712-023-09798-5] [Journal Article/Letter]
2023. "A Performance Analysis of Soil Dielectric Models over Organic Soils in Alaska for Passive Microwave Remote Sensing of Soil Moisture." Remote Sensing 15 (6): 1658 [10.3390/rs15061658] [Journal Article/Letter]
2023. "Development of High-Resolution Soil Hydraulic Parameters with Use of Earth Observations for Enhancing Root Zone Soil Moisture Product." Remote Sensing 15 (3): 706 [10.3390/rs15030706] [Journal Article/Letter]
2023. "Assessment of Surface Fractional Water Impacts on SMAP Soil Moisture Retrieval." IEEE Journal of Selected Topics in Applied Earth Observations and Remote Sensing 16 4871-4881 [10.1109/jstars.2023.3278686] [Journal Article/Letter]
2023. "A Spaceborne Demonstration of P-Band Signals-of-Opportunity (SoOp) Reflectometry." IEEE Geoscience and Remote Sensing Letters 20 1-5 [10.1109/lgrs.2023.3304469] [Journal Article/Letter]
2022. "Groundwater depletion in California’s Central Valley accelerates during megadrought." Nature Communications 13 (1): 7825 [10.1038/s41467-022-35582-x] [Journal Article/Letter]
2022. "Assimilation of Remotely Sensed Leaf Area Index Enhances the Estimation of Anthropogenic Irrigation Water Use." Journal of Advances in Modeling Earth Systems 14 (11): [10.1029/2022ms003040] [Journal Article/Letter]
2022. "Flash Drought Onset and Development Mechanisms Captured with Soil Moisture and Vegetation Data Assimilation." Water Resources Research 58 (12): e2022WR032894 [10.1029/2022wr032894] [Journal Article/Letter]
2022. "Local Scale (3-m) Soil Moisture Mapping Using SMAP and Planet SuperDove." Remote Sensing 14 (15): 3812 [10.3390/rs14153812] [Journal Article/Letter]
2022. "Crop-CASMA: A web geoprocessing and map service based architecture and implementation for serving soil moisture and crop vegetation condition data over U.S. Cropland." International Journal of Applied Earth Observation and Geoinformation 112 102902 [10.1016/j.jag.2022.102902] [Journal Article/Letter]
2022. "Remote sensing-based vegetation and soil moisture constraints reduce irrigation estimation uncertainty." Environmental Research Letters 17 (8): 084010 [10.1088/1748-9326/ac7ed8] [Journal Article/Letter]
2022. "Irrigation characterization improved by the direct use of SMAP soil moisture anomalies within a data assimilation system." Environ. Res. Lett. 17 (8): 084006 [10.1088/1748-9326/ac7f49] [Journal Article/Letter]
2022. "Thermal hydraulic disaggregation of SMAP soil moisture over the continental United States." IEEE Journal of Selected Topics in Applied Earth Observations and Remote Sensing 15 4072-4092 [10.1109/jstars.2022.3165644] [Journal Article/Letter]
2022. "A global 1‐km downscaled SMAP soil moisture product based on thermal inertia theory." Vadose Zone Journal 21 (2): [10.1002/vzj2.20182] [Journal Article/Letter]
2022. "Validation of Soil Moisture Data Products From the NASA SMAP Mission." IEEE Journal of Selected Topics in Applied Earth Observations and Remote Sensing 15 364-392 [10.1109/jstars.2021.3124743] [Journal Article/Letter]
2021. "Regularized Dual-Channel Algorithm for the Retrieval of Soil Moisture and Vegetation Optical Depth from SMAP Measurements." IEEE Journal of Selected Topics in Applied Earth Observations and Remote Sensing 1-1 [10.1109/jstars.2021.3123932] [Journal Article/Letter]
2021. "Evaluation of GEOS Precipitation Flagging for SMAP Soil Moisture Retrieval Accuracy." Journal of Hydrometeorology 22 1317-1332 [10.1175/jhm-d-20-0038.1] [Journal Article/Letter]
2021. "Evaluation of Global Surface Water Temperature Data Sets for Use in Passive Remote Sensing of Soil Moisture." Remote Sensing 13 (10): 1872 [10.3390/rs13101872] [Journal Article/Letter]
2021. "Validation of SMAP L2 passive-only soil moisture products using upscaled in situ measurements collected in Twente, the Netherlands." Hydrology and Earth System Sciences 25 (1): 473-495 [10.5194/hess-25-473-2021] [Journal Article/Letter]
2021. "Assessing Disaggregated SMAP Soil Moisture Products in the United States." IEEE Journal of Selected Topics in Applied Earth Observations and Remote Sensing 14 2577-2592 [10.1109/jstars.2021.3056001] [Journal Article/Letter]
2021. "Microwave Radiometry at Frequencies from 500 to 1400 MHz: An Emerging Technology for Earth Observations." IEEE Journal of Selected Topics in Applied Earth Observations and Remote Sensing 1-1 [10.1109/jstars.2021.3073286] [Journal Article/Letter]
2020. "SCoBi Multilayer: A Signals of Opportunity Reflectometry Model for Multilayer Dielectric Reflections." Remote Sensing 12 (21): 3480 [10.3390/rs12213480] [Journal Article/Letter]
2020. "Evaluation and validation of a high spatial resolution satellite soil moisture product over the Continental United States." Journal of Hydrology 588 125043 [10.1016/j.jhydrol.2020.125043] [Journal Article/Letter]
2020. "Assimilation of vegetation optical depth retrievals from passive microwave radiometry." Hydrology and Earth System Sciences 24 (7): 3431-3450 [10.5194/hess-24-3431-2020] [Journal Article/Letter]
2020. "The Precipitation Inferred from Soil Moisture (PrISM) Near Real-Time Rainfall Product: Evaluation and Comparison." Remote Sensing 12 (3): 481 [10.3390/rs12030481] [Journal Article/Letter]
2020. "Assimilation of Sentinel 1 and SMAP – based satellite soil moisture retrievals into SWAT hydrological model: the impact of satellite revisit time and product spatial resolution on flood simulations in small basins." Journal of Hydrology 581 124367 [10.1016/j.jhydrol.2019.124367] [Journal Article/Letter]
2020. "Field evaluation of portable soil water content sensors in a sandy loam." Vadose Zone Journal 19 (1): [10.1002/vzj2.20033] [Journal Article/Letter]
2020. "Improved SMAP Dual-Channel Algorithm for the Retrieval of Soil Moisture." IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing 1-12 [10.1109/tgrs.2019.2959239] [Journal Article/Letter]
2020. "Cramer–Rao Lower Bound for SoOp-R-Based Root-Zone Soil Moisture Remote Sensing." IEEE Journal of Selected Topics in Applied Earth Observations and Remote Sensing 13 6101-6114 [10.1109/jstars.2020.3029158] [Journal Article/Letter]
2019. "Improving Brightness Temperature Measurements Near Coastal Areas for SMAP." IEEE Journal of Selected Topics in Applied Earth Observations and Remote Sensing 12 (11): 4578-4588 [10.1109/jstars.2019.2951323] [Journal Article/Letter]
2019. "Assessment of Soil Moisture SMAP Retrievals and ELBARA-III Measurements in a Tibetan Meadow Ecosystem." IEEE Geoscience and Remote Sensing Letters 16 (9): 1407-1411 [10.1109/lgrs.2019.2897786] [Journal Article/Letter]
2019. "An L-Band Brightness Temperature Disaggregation Method Using S-Band Radiometer Data for the Water Cycle Observation Mission (WCOM)." IEEE Journal of Selected Topics in Applied Earth Observations and Remote Sensing 12 (9): 3184-3193 [10.1109/jstars.2019.2922780] [Journal Article/Letter]
2019. "SMAP Algorithm Theoretical Basis Document: Level 2 & 3 Soil Moisture (Passive) Data Products. Revision E." SMAP Project, JPL D-66480, Jet Propulsion Laboratory [Report]
2019. "Passive/active microwave soil moisture change disaggregation using SMAPVEX12 data." Journal of Hydrology 574 1085-1098 [10.1016/j.jhydrol.2019.04.082] [Journal Article/Letter]
2019. "Comparison of high-resolution airborne soil moisture retrievals to SMAP soil moisture during the SMAP validation experiment 2016 (SMAPVEX16)." Remote Sensing of Environment 227 137-150 [10.1016/j.rse.2019.04.004] [Journal Article/Letter]
2019. "Soil Moisture Active/Passive (SMAP) L-Band Microwave Radiometer Post-Launch Calibration Upgrade." IEEE Journal of Selected Topics in Applied Earth Observations and Remote Sensing 1-12 [10.1109/jstars.2019.2902492] [Journal Article/Letter]
2019. "Evaluation of SMAP downscaled brightness temperature using SMAPEx-4/5 airborne observations." Remote Sensing of Environment 221 363-372 [10.1016/j.rse.2018.11.033] [Journal Article/Letter]
2018. "AMSR2 Soil Moisture Downscaling Using Temperature and Vegetation Data." Remote Sensing 10 (10): 1575 [10.3390/rs10101575] [Journal Article/Letter]
2018. "Global-scale evaluation of SMAP, SMOS and ASCAT soil moisture products using triple collocation." Remote Sensing of Environment 214 1-13 [10.1016/j.rse.2018.05.008] [Journal Article/Letter]
2018. "Assessment of the SMAP Soil Emission Model and Soil Moisture Retrieval Algorithms for a Tibetan Desert Ecosystem." IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing 56 (7): 3786-3799 [10.1109/tgrs.2018.2811318] [Journal Article/Letter]
2018. "Determination of Best Low-Frequency Microwave Antenna Approach For Future High Resolution Measurements From Space." IGARSS 2018 - 2018 IEEE International Geoscience and Remote Sensing Symposium [10.1109/igarss.2018.8517411] [Proceedings]
2018. "Impact of surface roughness, vegetation opacity and soil permittivity on L-band microwave emission and soil moisture retrieval in the third pole environment." Remote Sensing of Environment 209 633-647 [10.1016/j.rse.2018.03.011] [Journal Article/Letter]
2018. "An assessment of the differences between spatial resolution and grid size for the SMAP enhanced soil moisture product over homogeneous sites." Remote Sensing of Environment 207 65-70 [10.1016/j.rse.2018.02.006] [Journal Article/Letter]
2018. "The Error Structure of the SMAP Single and Dual Channel Soil Moisture Retrievals." Geophysical Research Letters 45 (2): 758-765 [10.1002/2017gl075656] [Journal Article/Letter]
2018. "Multi-Timescale Analysis of the Spatial Representativeness of In Situ Soil Moisture Data within Satellite Footprints." Journal of Geophysical Research: Atmospheres 123 (1): 3-21 [10.1002/2017jd027478] [Journal Article/Letter]
2018. "GCOM-W AMSR2 Soil Moisture Product Validation Using Core Validation Sites." IEEE Journal of Selected Topics in Applied Earth Observations and Remote Sensing 11 (1): 209-219 [10.1109/jstars.2017.2754293] [Journal Article/Letter]
2018. "Development and assessment of the SMAP enhanced passive soil moisture product." Remote Sensing of Environment 204 931-941 [10.1016/j.rse.2017.08.025] [Journal Article/Letter]
2018. "Downscaling of SMAP Soil Moisture Using Land Surface Temperature and Vegetation Data." Vadose Zone Journal 17 (1): 0 [10.2136/vzj2017.11.0198] [Journal Article/Letter]
2017. "Spatial Downscaling of SMAP Soil Moisture Using MODIS Land Surface Temperature and NDVI During SMAPVEX15." IEEE Geoscience and Remote Sensing Letters 14 (11): 2107-2111 [10.1109/lgrs.2017.2753203] [Journal Article/Letter]
2017. "Information theoretic evaluation of satellite soil moisture retrievals." Remote Sensing of Environment 204 392-400 [10.1016/j.rse.2017.10.016] [Journal Article/Letter]
2017. "Validation and scaling of soil moisture in a semi-arid environment: SMAP validation experiment 2015 (SMAPVEX15)." Remote Sensing of Environment 196 101-112 [10.1016/j.rse.2017.04.022] [Journal Article/Letter]
2017. "Assessment of version 4 of the SMAP passive soil moisture standard product." 2017 IEEE International Geoscience and Remote Sensing Symposium (IGARSS) [10.1109/igarss.2017.8127862] [Proceedings]
2017. "Soil Moisture Active/Passive L-Band Microwave Radiometer Postlaunch Calibration." IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing 1-16 [10.1109/tgrs.2017.2705342] [Journal Article/Letter]
2017. "A Comparative Study of the SMAP Passive Soil Moisture Product With Existing Satellite-Based Soil Moisture Products." IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing 55 (5): 2959-2971 [10.1109/tgrs.2017.2656859] [Journal Article/Letter]
2017. "Validation of SMAP surface soil moisture products with core validation sites." Remote Sensing of Environment 191 215-231 [10.1016/j.rse.2017.01.021] [Journal Article/Letter]
2017. "Application of Triple Collocation in Ground-Based Validation of Soil Moisture Active/Passive (SMAP) Level 2 Data Products." IEEE J. Sel. Top. Appl. Earth Observations Remote Sensing 10 489-502 [10.1109/jstars.2016.2569998] [Journal Article/Letter]
2016. "SMAP soil moisture drying more rapid than observed in situ following rainfall events." Geophysical Research Letters 43 (15): 8068-8075 [10.1002/2016gl069946] [Journal Article/Letter]
2016. "Assessment of the SMAP Passive Soil Moisture Product." IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing 54 (8): 4994-5007 [10.1109/tgrs.2016.2561938] [Journal Article/Letter]
2016. "SMOS disaggregated soil moisture product at 1 km resolution: Processor overview and first validation results." Remote Sensing of Environment 180 361-376 [10.1016/j.rse.2016.02.045] [Journal Article/Letter]
2016. "Overview of SMOS performance in terms of global soil moisture monitoring after six years in operation." Remote Sensing of Environment 180 40-63 [10.1016/j.rse.2016.02.042] [Journal Article/Letter]
2016. "Evaluation of the validated Soil Moisture product from the SMAP radiometer." 2016 IEEE International Geoscience and Remote Sensing Symposium (IGARSS) 125-128 [10.1109/igarss.2016.7729023] [Proceedings]
2016. "Assimilation of Active and Passive Microwave Observations for Improved Estimates of Soil Moisture and Crop Growth." IEEE Journal of Selected Topics in Applied Earth Observations and Remote Sensing 9 (4): 1357-1369 [10.1109/jstars.2015.2506504] [Journal Article/Letter]
2015. "First Evaluation of Aquarius Soil Moisture Products UsingIn SituObservations and GLDAS Model Simulations." IEEE Journal of Selected Topics in Applied Earth Observations and Remote Sensing 8 (12): 5511-5525 [10.1109/jstars.2015.2452955] [Journal Article/Letter]
2015. "Comparing AMSR-E soil moisture estimates to the extended record of the U.S. Climate Reference Network (USCRN)." Advances in Water Resources 85 79-85 [10.1016/j.advwatres.2015.09.003] [Journal Article/Letter]
2015. "Global Soil Moisture From the Aquarius/SAC-D Satellite: Description and Initial Assessment." IEEE Geosci. Remote Sensing Lett. 12 (5): 923-927 [10.1109/lgrs.2014.2364151] [Journal Article/Letter]
2015. "A comparison between two algorithms for the retrieval of soil moisture using AMSR-E data." Frontiers in Earth Science 3 [10.3389/feart.2015.00016] [Journal Article/Letter]
2015. "Refinement of SMOS Multiangular Brightness Temperature Toward Soil Moisture Retrieval and Its Analysis Over Reference Targets." IEEE Journal of Selected Topics in Applied Earth Observations and Remote Sensing 8 (2): 589-603 [10.1109/jstars.2014.2336664] [Journal Article/Letter]
2015. "Parametric exponentially correlated surface emission model for L-band passive microwave soil moisture retrieval." Physics and Chemistry of the Earth, Parts A/B/C 83-84 65-74 [10.1016/j.pce.2015.04.001] [Journal Article/Letter]
2014. "Retrieval of Wheat Growth Parameters With Radar Vegetation Indices." IEEE Geoscience and Remote Sensing Letters 11 (4): 808-812 [10.1109/lgrs.2013.2279255] [Journal Article/Letter]
2014. "Comparison Between SMOS, VUA, ASCAT, and ECMWF Soil Moisture Products Over Four Watersheds in U.S." IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing 52 (3): 1562-1571 [10.1109/tgrs.2013.2252468] [Journal Article/Letter]
2014. "Remote monitoring of soil moisture using passive microwave-based techniques — Theoretical basis and overview of selected algorithms for AMSR-E." Remote Sensing of Environment 144 197-213 [10.1016/j.rse.2014.01.013] [Journal Article/Letter]
2014. "An Approach to Constructing a Homogeneous Time Series of Soil Moisture Using SMOS." IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing 52 (1): 393-405 [10.1109/tgrs.2013.2240691] [Journal Article/Letter]
2014. "Soil Hydraulic Parameters and Surface Soil Moisture of a Tilled Bare Soil Plot Inversely Derived from L-Band Brightness Temperatures." Vadose Zone Journal 13 (1): 0 [10.2136/vzj2013.04.0075] [Journal Article/Letter]
2013. "Monitoring soybean growth using L-, C-, and X-band scatterometer data." International Journal of Remote Sensing 34 (11): 4069-4082 [10.1080/01431161.2013.772309] [Journal Article/Letter]
2013. "Incidence Angle Normalization of Radar Backscatter Data." IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing 51 (3): 1791-1804 [10.1109/tgrs.2012.2205264] [Journal Article/Letter]
2013. "Passive Microwave Soil Moisture Downscaling Using Vegetation Index and Skin Surface Temperature." Vadose Zone Journal 12 (3): 0 [10.2136/vzj2013.05.0089] [Journal Article/Letter]
2012. "Effect of dew on aircraft-based passive microwave observations over an agricultural domain." Journal of Applied Remote Sensing 6 (1): 063571-1 [10.1117/1.jrs.6.063571] [Journal Article/Letter]
2012. "Radar Vegetation Index for Estimating the Vegetation Water Content of Rice and Soybean." IEEE Geoscience and Remote Sensing Letters 9 (4): 564-568 [10.1109/lgrs.2011.2174772] [Journal Article/Letter]
2012. "Long term analysis of PALS soil moisture campaign measurements for global soil moisture algorithm development." Remote Sensing of Environment 121 309-322 [10.1016/j.rse.2012.02.002] [Journal Article/Letter]
2012. "Validation of Soil Moisture and Ocean Salinity (SMOS) Soil Moisture Over Watershed Networks in the U.S." IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing 50 (5): 1530-1543 [10.1109/tgrs.2011.2168533] [Journal Article/Letter]
2011. "The Contributions of Precipitation and Soil Moisture Observations to the Skill of Soil Moisture Estimates in a Land Data Assimilation System." J. Hydrometeorology 12 (5): 750-765 [10.1175/JHM-D-10-05000.1] [Journal Article/Letter]
2010. "Soil Moisture Retrieval Using a Two-Dimensional L-Band Synthetic Aperture Radiometer in a Semiarid Environment." IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing 48 (12): 4273-4284 [10.1109/tgrs.2010.2051677] [Journal Article/Letter]
2010. "Validation of Advanced Microwave Scanning Radiometer Soil Moisture Products." IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing 48 (12): 4256-4272 [10.1109/tgrs.2010.2051035] [Journal Article/Letter]
2010. "WindSat Global Soil Moisture Retrieval and Validation." IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing 48 (5): 2224-2241 [10.1109/tgrs.2009.2037749] [Journal Article/Letter]
2010. "Passive Polarimetric Microwave Signatures Observed Over Antarctica." IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing 48 (3): 1059-1075 [10.1109/tgrs.2009.2032295] [Journal Article/Letter]
2009. "Combined Passive and Active Microwave Observations of Soil Moisture During CLASIC." IEEE Geoscience and Remote Sensing Letters 6 (4): 644-648 [10.1109/lgrs.2009.2028441] [Journal Article/Letter]
2009. "Surface and profile soil moisture spatio-temporal analysis during an excessive rainfall period in the Southern Great Plains, USA." CATENA 78 (2): 159-169 [10.1016/j.catena.2009.04.002] [Journal Article/Letter]
2009. "Development of a distributed biosphere hydrological model and its evaluation with the Southern Great Plains Experiments (SGP97 and SGP99)." Journal of Geophysical Research 114 (D8): D08107 [10.1029/2008jd010800] [Journal Article/Letter]
2009. "Role of Passive Microwave Remote Sensing in Improving Flood Forecasts." IEEE Geoscience and Remote Sensing Letters 6 (1): 112-116 [10.1109/lgrs.2008.2002754] [Journal Article/Letter]
2009. "Improving Satellite-Based Rainfall Accumulation Estimates Using Spaceborne Surface Soil Moisture Retrievals." J. Hydrometeor. 10 (1): 199-212 [10.1175/2008JHM986.1] [Journal Article/Letter]
2008. "Microwave vegetation indices for short vegetation covers from satellite passive microwave sensor AMSR-E." Remote Sensing of Environment 112 (12): 4285-4300 [10.1016/j.rse.2008.07.015] [Journal Article/Letter]
2008. "Comparison of ground-based and remotely-sensed surface soil moisture estimates over complex terrain during SMEX04." Remote Sensing of Environment 112 (2): 314-325 [10.1016/j.rse.2006.10.028] [Journal Article/Letter]
2008. "Temporal persistence and stability of surface soil moisture in a semi-arid watershed." Remote Sensing of Environment 112 (2): 304-313 [10.1016/j.rse.2007.07.001] [Journal Article/Letter]
2008. "Aircraft based soil moisture retrievals under mixed vegetation and topographic conditions." Remote Sensing of Environment 112 (2): 375-390 [10.1016/j.rse.2007.01.024] [Journal Article/Letter]
2007. "L-band microwave observations over land surface using a two-dimensional synthetic aperture radiometer." Geophysical Research Letters 34 (14): L14401 [10.1029/2007gl030098] [Journal Article/Letter]
2007. "Observations of Land Surface Passive Polarimetry With the WindSat Instrument." IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing 45 (7): 2019-2028 [10.1109/tgrs.2006.886963] [Journal Article/Letter]
2006. "Evaluation of the Oceansat‐1 Multi‐frequency Scanning Microwave Radiometer and its potential for soil moisture retrieval." International Journal of Remote Sensing 27 (18): 3781-3796 [10.1080/01431160500075642] [Journal Article/Letter]
2006. "Soil moisture mapping and AMSR-E validation using the PSR in SMEX02." Remote Sensing of Environment 103 (2): 127-139 [10.1016/j.rse.2005.02.003] [Journal Article/Letter]
2006. "Comparing the utility of microwave and thermal remote-sensing constraints in two-source energy balance modeling over an agricultural landscape." Remote Sensing of Environment 101 (3): 315-328 [10.1016/j.rse.2006.01.001] [Journal Article/Letter]
2006. "Using TRMM/TMI to Retrieve Surface Soil Moisture over the Southern United States from 1998 to 2002." Journal of Hydrometeorology 7 (1): 23-38 [10.1175/jhm473.1] [Journal Article/Letter]
2005. "Retrieval of Soil Moisture and Vegetation Water Content Using SSM/I Data over a Corn and Soybean Region." Journal of Hydrometeorology 6 (6): 854-863 [10.1175/jhm462.1] [Journal Article/Letter]
2005. "Polarimetric scanning radiometer C- and X-band microwave observations during SMEX03." IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing 43 (11): 2418-2430 [10.1109/tgrs.2005.857625] [Journal Article/Letter]
2005. "The added value of spaceborne passive microwave soil moisture retrievals for forecasting rainfall-runoff partitioning." Geophysical Research Letters 32 (18): [10.1029/2005gl023543] [Journal Article/Letter]
2005. "Calibration of an impedance probe for estimation of surface soil water content over large regions." Journal of Hydrology 311 (1-4): 49-58 [10.1016/j.jhydrol.2005.01.003] [Journal Article/Letter]
2004. "Watershed scale temporal and spatial stability of soil moisture and its role in validating satellite estimates." Remote Sensing of Environment 92 (4): 427-435 [https://doi.org/10.1016/j.rse.2004.02.016] [Journal Article/Letter]
2003. "Soil moisture estimates from TRMM Microwave Imager observations over the Southern United States." Remote Sensing of Environment 85 (4): 507-515 [10.1016/s0034-4257(03)00052-x] [Journal Article/Letter]
2003. "Comparison of energy balance modeling schemes using microwave-derived soil moisture and radiometric surface temperature." Water Resources Research 39 (2): [10.1029/2002wr001361] [Journal Article/Letter]
2002. "Soil moisture retrieval using the C-band polarimetric scanning radiometer during the Southern Great Plains 1999 Experiment." IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing 40 (10): 2151-2161 [10.1109/tgrs.2002.802480] [Journal Article/Letter]
2002. "Subpixel variability of remotely sensed soil moisture: an inter-comparison study of SAR and ESTAR." IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing 40 (2): 326-337 [10.1109/36.992792] [Journal Article/Letter]
2001. "Parameterization of vegetation backscatter in radar-based, soil moisture estimation." Remote Sensing of Environment 76 (1): 130-137 [10.1016/s0034-4257(00)00200-5] [Journal Article/Letter]
2001. "Influence of near-surface soil moisture on regional scale heat fluxes: model results using microwave remote sensing data from SGP97." IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing 39 (8): 1719-1728 [10.1109/36.942550] [Journal Article/Letter]
2000. "Disaggregation of rainfall for one-way coupling of atmospheric and hydrological models in regions of complex terrain." Global and Planetary Change 25 (1-2): 111-132 [10.1016/s0921-8181(00)00024-2] [Journal Article/Letter]
2000. "Multifrequency Soil Moisture Inversion from SAR Measurements with the Use of IEM." Remote Sensing of Environment 71 (1): 67-88 [10.1016/s0034-4257(99)00065-6] [Journal Article/Letter]
1996. "Aggregation of digital terrain data using a modified fractal interpolation scheme." Computers & Geosciences 22 (8): 907-917 [10.1016/s0098-3004(96)00049-0] [Journal Article/Letter]
Non-Refereed
2020. "Soil moisture product validation good practices protocol, version 1.0." Committee on Earth Observation Satellites 123 pp. [10.5067/doc/ceoswgcv/lpv/sm.001] [Report]
2019. "SMAP Enhanced L2 Radiometer Half-Orbit 9 km EASE-Grid Soil Moisture, Version 3." NASA National Snow and Ice Data Center Distributed Active Archive Center, Boulder, CO. [10.5067/017XZSKMLTT2] [Dataset]
2019. "SMAP L2 Radiometer Half-Orbit 36 km EASE-Grid Soil Moisture, Version 6." NASA National Snow and Ice Data Center Distributed Active Archive Center, Boulder, CO [10.5067/R50VUC07OM4W] [Dataset]
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2016. "Calibration and Validation for the L2/3_SM_P Version 4 and L2/3_SM_P_E Version 1 Data Products." SMAP Project, JPL D-56297, Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, CA. [Report]
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2015. "Calibration and Validation for the L2/3_SM_P Version 2 Beta-Release Data Products." SMAP Project, JPL D-93981, Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, CA [Report]
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2014. "The SMAP Level 2 Passive-Only Microwave Soil Moisture Retrieval Algorithm: Description and Implementation Decisions." SPIE Asia-Pacific Remote Sensing Conference, Beijing, China, October 13-17, 2014 [Proceedings]
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