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Submitted to: International Geoscience and Remote Sensing Symposium Proceedings
Publication Type: Proceedings Publication Acceptance Date: 7/15/2008 Publication Date: 8/1/2008 Citation: Crow, W.T. 2008. Global evaluation of remotely-sensed soil moisture retrievals. In: Proceedings of the International Geoscience and Remote Sensing Symposium, July 7-11, 2008, Boston, Massachusetts. 2008 CDROM. Interpretive Summary: Technical Abstract: To date, limitations in the availability of ground based soil moisture observations have hampered the large-scale evaluation of remotely-sensed surface soil moisture retrievals. Recently developed evaluation techniques offer the potential to greatly expand the geographic domain over which such retrievals can be evaluated by effectively substituting ground-based rain gauge observations for, less commonly available, ground-based soil moisture observations. Here, we apply the technique at a quasi-global (50_S to 50_N) scale using rainfall products derived from the Tropical Rainfall Measurement Mission Precipitation Analysis. Results provide important insight into the global-scale performance of current soil moisture remote sensing products. |
