WE1.R6: Passive Microwave Remote Sensing of Soil Moisture
Wed, 10 Jul, 09:00 - 10:40
Location: Skalkotas Hall
Session Type: Oral
Session Co-Chairs: Rajat Bindlish, NASA and Adriano Camps, Universitat Politecnica de Catalunya
Track: Land Applications
Wed, 10 Jul, 09:00 - 09:14

WE1.R6.1: MULTI-LAYER SOIL MOISTURE ESTIMATION USING COMBINED L-AND P-BAND RADIOMETRY: AN APPLICATION OF MACHINE LEARNING ALGORITHMS
Foad Brakhasi, Jeffrey Walker, Monash University, Australia; Jasmeet Judge, University of Florida, United States; Pang-Wei Liu, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, United States; Xiaoji Shen, Hohai University, China; Nan Ye, Xiaoling Wu, Monash University, China; In-Young Yeo, The University of Newcastle, Australia; Richa Prajapati, Monash University, Australia; Edward Kim, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, United States; Yann Kerr, Centre d'Etudes Spatiales de la Biosphère, France; Thomas Jackson, USDA ARS Hydrology and Remote Sensing Laboratory, United States
Wed, 10 Jul, 09:14 - 09:28

WE1.R6.2: SENSITIVITY OF THE BRIGHTNESS TEMPERATURE TO SOIL MOISTURE AS A FUNCTION OF DEPTH, FREQUENCY, POLARIZATION AND INCIDENCE ANGLE
Adriano Camps, Universitat Politecnica de Catalunya, Spain
Wed, 10 Jul, 09:28 - 09:42

WE1.R6.3: EVALUATING SMAP AND AMSR2 CAPABILITIES FOR GLOBAL SOIL MOISTURE MAPPING
Tianjie Zhao, Zhiqing Peng, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China; Lu Hu, Nanjing University, China; Jiancheng Shi, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China
Wed, 10 Jul, 09:42 - 09:56

WE1.R6.4: MULTI-FREQUENCY ACTIVE PASSIVE BASED ROOT ZONE SOIL MOISTURE RETRIEVAL
Lixiaozhou Zhou, Jeffrey P. Walker, Xiaoling Wu, Monash University, Australia; Brian Ng, The University of Adelaide, Australia; Nan Ye, Liujun Zhu, Luisa F. White-Murillo, Ziwei Xiong, Monash University, Australia; James Hills, University of Tasmania, Australia; Mahta Moghaddam, University of Southern California, United States; Simon Yueh, Jet Propulsion Laboratory, California Institute of Technology, United States; Dara Entekhabi, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, United States
Wed, 10 Jul, 09:56 - 10:10

WE1.R6.5: THE IMPORTANCE OF THE INITIAL SPATIAL RESOLUTION WHEN DOWNSCALING SOIL MOISTURE MAPS
Nemesio Rodriguez-Fernandez, CESBIO, CNRS, France; Jingyao Zheng, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China; Megha Devaraju, CESBIO, France; Tianjie Zhao, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China; Yann Kerr, CESBIO, France; Andreas Colliander, NASA JPL, United States; Olivier Merlin, CESBIO, CNRS, France
Wed, 10 Jul, 10:10 - 10:24

WE1.R6.6: A FEEDFORWARD NEURAL NETWORK FOR ESA CCI SOIL MOISTURE DISAGGREGATION
Gerard Portal, Institut d’Estudis Espacials de Catalunya (IEEC), Spain; Mercè Vall-llossera, Carlos López-Martínez, Institut d’Estudis Espacials de Catalunya (IEEC) and CommSensLab – UPC, Department of Signal Theory and Communications, Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya (UPC), Spain; Adriano Camps, Institut d’Estudis Espacials de Catalunya (IEEC), CommSensLab – UPC, Department of Signal Theory and Communications, Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya (UPC), and 3ASPIRE Visiting International Professor, UAE University CoE., Spain; Alberto Alonso-González, Amir Mustofa Irawan, Miriam Pablos, Department of Signal Theory and Communications, Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya (UPC), Spain
Wed, 10 Jul, 10:24 - 10:38

WE1.R6.7: ADVANCES IN SOIL MOISTURE RETRIEVAL FROM THE SENTINEL PRODUCTS
Mehdi Rahmati, Carsten Montzka, Forschungszentrum Jülich, Germany