Jessica Marie Erlingis, Earth System Science Interdisciplinary Center, University of Maryland, College Park, United States, Pang-Wei Liu, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Hydrological Sciences Laboratory, Greenbelt, United States, Rajat Bindlish, NASA GSFC, Greenbelt, United States, Sujay V Kumar, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, United States, Meijian Yang, Cornell University, School of Integrative Plant Science, Soil and Crop Sciences Section, Ithaca, United States, Alexander C Ruane, NASA Goddard Institute for Space Studies, New York, NY, United States, Shahryar Khalique Ahmad, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Hydrological Sciences Laboratory, Greenbelt, MD, United States, Luke Monhollon, Kellogg Brown & Root (KBR), Houston, United States, James V Geiger, Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, MD, United States, Zhengwei Yang, USDA, NASS, Washington DC, United States, Gary Feng, USDA ARS, Starkville, MS, United States and Yanbo Huang, USDA-ARS, Genetics and Sustainable Agriculture Research Unit, Starkville, United States