Transcription of SMAP Handbook
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National Aeronautics and Space AdministrationSMAP HandbookSoil Moisture Active PassiveMapping Soil Moisture andFreeze/Thaw from SpaceOn the cover The Soil Moisture Active Passive (SMAP) mission will provide global measurements of soil moisture and its freeze/thaw state from a 685 km, near polar, sun synchronous orbit for a period of 3 years. The SMAP observatory s instrument suite includes a radiometer and a synthetic aperture radar to make coincident measurements of surface emission and backscatter.
The research described in this publication was carried out by the Jet Propulsion Laboratory, California Institute of Technology, ... ment measurements with other observing system data as ... agricultural and food production decision support systems, …
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