Christopher Hain, NASA Marshall Space Flight Center, Huntsville, AL, United States, Martha Anderson, USDA ARS Hydrology and Remote Sensing Laboratory, Beltsville, MD, United States, Thomas Holmes, NASA GSFC, Greenbelt, MD, United States, Jason Otkin, University of Wisconsin Madison, CIMSS/SSEC, Madison, WI, United States and Feng Gao, USDA-Agricultural Research Service Beltsville, Hydrology and Remote Sensing, Beltsville, MD, United States