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NASAs Soil Moisture Active Passive (SMAP) Mission and Opportunities For Applications UsersWater in the soil, both its amount (soil moisture) and its state (freeze/thaw), plays a key role in water and energy cycles, in weather and climate, and in the carbon cycle. Additionally, soil moisture touches upon human lives in a number of ways from the ravages of flooding to the needs for monitoring agricultural and hydrologic droughts. Because of their relevance to weather, climate, science, and society, accurate and timely measurements of soil moisture and freeze/thaw state with global coverage are critically important.
Document ID
20140011346
Acquisition Source
Goddard Space Flight Center
Document Type
Preprint (Draft being sent to journal)
Authors
Brown, Molly E. (NASA Goddard Space Flight Center Greenbelt, MD United States)
Escobar, Vanessa (Sigma Space Corp. Lanham, MD, United States)
Moran, Susan (Department of Agriculture Tucson, AZ, United States)
Entekhabi, Dara (Massachusetts Inst. of Tech. Cambridge, MA, United States)
O'Neill, Peggy (NASA Goddard Space Flight Center Greenbelt, MD United States)
Njoku, Eni G. (Jet Propulsion Lab., California Inst. of Tech. Pasadena, CA, United States)
Doorn, Brad (NASA Headquarters Washington, DC United States)
Entin, Jared K. (NASA Headquarters Washington, DC United States)
Date Acquired
September 3, 2014
Publication Date
January 30, 2013
Subject Category
Earth Resources And Remote Sensing
Report/Patent Number
GSFC-E-DAA-TN7157
Funding Number(s)
CONTRACT_GRANT: NNH08HR03A
CONTRACT_GRANT: NNG09HP18C
Distribution Limits
Public
Copyright
Public Use Permitted.
Keywords
Mission
Application
SMAP

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