Validating SMAP Soil Moisture and Vegetation Optical Depth in Forests: Summary of Activities in 2022

Warren Helgason1, Andreas Colliander2, Michael H Cosh3, Aaron A Berg4, Sidharth Misra2, Jaison Thomas Ambadan Thomas5, Laura L Bourgeau-Chavez6, Vicky Kelly7, Simon Kraatz8, Paul Siqueira9, Alexandre Roy10, Ramata Magagi11, Tarendra Lakhankar12, Mehmet Ogut13, Mario Chaubell2, R. Scott Dunbar2, Jay Famiglietti14, Alexandra Konings15, Mehmet Kurum16, Dara Entekhabi17 and Simon H Yueh18, (1)University of Saskatchewan, Saskatoon, Canada, (2)NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, CA, United States, (3)U. S. Dept. of Agriculture, Beltsville, MD, United States, (4)University of Guelph, Department of Geography, Environment and Geomatics, Guelph, ON, Canada, (5)University of Guelph, Guelph, ON, Canada, (6)Michigan Technological University, Michigan Tech Research Institute, Houghton, MI, United States, (7)Cary Institute of Ecosystem Studies, Millbrook, United States, (8)University of New Hampshire, Civil and Environmental Engineering, Durham, NH, United States, (9)University of Massachusetts, Amherst, Amherst, United States, (10)Université du Québec à Trois-Rivières, Centre de recherche sur les interactions bassins versants-écosystèmes aquatiques (RIVE), Trois-Rivières, QC, Canada, (11)Universite de Sherbrooke, Sherbrooke, QC, Canada, (12)NOAA CESSRST, City College of New York, New York, NY, United States, (13)Colorado State University, Microwave Systems Laboratory, Fort Collins, United States, (14)University of Saskatchewan, Global Institute for Water Security, Saskatoon, Canada, (15)Stanford University, Stanford, United States, (16)Mississippi State University, Mississippi State, MS, United States, (17)Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Cambridge, MA, United States, (18)JPL, Pasadena, CA, United States