@inproceedings{798834ca81ab4288afae1a2f25173560,
title = "Evaluation of Aquarius level 2 soil moisture products over central Tibetan Plateau and continental U.S.",
abstract = "Validation is important for any satellite-based remote sensing products. In this paper, in situ soil moisture observations from 38 stations over the 1 °×1 ° domain from the central Tibetan Plateau Soil Moisture/Temperature Monitoring Network (CTP-SMTMN) and 152 stations from the Soil Climate Analysis Network (SCAN) over continental U.S. are used to determine the reliability of Aquarius level-2 soil moisture products. Evaluation of the time series in CTP-SMTMN shows good performances of the products to capture surface soil moisture annual cycle with the correlation coefficient of 0.767 and RMSD of 0.078m3m-3. The evaluation results in SCAN suggest that the average correlation is 0.58 and 71.83% sites have correlation larger than 0.5 but differences are observed over many other sites and need to be addressed. The evaluation results also show that the retrieval results performed better for descending orbits (6 AM overpass time).",
keywords = "Aquarius, CTP-SMTMN, evaluation, SCAN, soil moisture",
author = "Dongyang Li and Tianjie Zhao and Jiancheng Shi and Rajat Bindlish and Tom Jackson and Bin Peng and Qiang Liu",
note = "Publisher Copyright: {\textcopyright} 2014 IEEE.; Joint 2014 IEEE International Geoscience and Remote Sensing Symposium, IGARSS 2014 and the 35th Canadian Symposium on Remote Sensing, CSRS 2014 ; Conference date: 13-07-2014 Through 18-07-2014",
year = "2014",
month = nov,
day = "4",
doi = "10.1109/IGARSS.2014.6946966",
language = "English (US)",
series = "International Geoscience and Remote Sensing Symposium (IGARSS)",
publisher = "Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc.",
pages = "2443--2446",
booktitle = "International Geoscience and Remote Sensing Symposium (IGARSS)",
address = "United States",
}