Preliminary field results of soil moisture from Kuwait desert as a core validation site of SMAP satellite

H. K. Aljassar; P. Petrov; D. Entekhabi; M. Temimi; N. Kodiyan; M. Ansari

doi:10.1109/IGARSS.2015.7325930

Preliminary field results of soil moisture from Kuwait desert as a core validation site of SMAP satellite

H. K. Aljassar, P. Petrov, D. Entekhabi, M. Temimi, N. Kodiyan, M. Ansari

Department of Civil, Environmental and Ocean Engineering

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Abstract

Field work was conducted in two SMAP 36×36 km grid cells, B and D, located in the west and north of Kuwait, respectively. The in-situ gravimetric sampling field work activity in Grid Cell D indicates a variation of volumetric soil moisture from 0.17 m³ m^-3 in January, 2014 to 0.015 m³ m^-3 in June, 2014. Field work in Grid Cell B indicates a variation from 0.0352 m³ m^-3 in December 2014 to 0.0168 m³ m^-3 in May 2015. Soil roughness was estimated in grid cell D using a pin profilometer and was found to vary from 0.2 to 0.7 RMS with a correlation length ranging from 91 cm to 93 cm. The first weather station was installed in grid cell B in April 2015.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	2015 IEEE International Geoscience and Remote Sensing Symposium, IGARSS 2015 - Proceedings
Pages	972-975
Number of pages	4
ISBN (Electronic)	9781479979295
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1109/IGARSS.2015.7325930
State	Published - 10 Nov 2015
Event	IEEE International Geoscience and Remote Sensing Symposium, IGARSS 2015 - Milan, Italy Duration: 26 Jul 2015 → 31 Jul 2015

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Name	International Geoscience and Remote Sensing Symposium (IGARSS)
Volume	2015-November

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Conference	IEEE International Geoscience and Remote Sensing Symposium, IGARSS 2015
Country/Territory	Italy
City	Milan
Period	26/07/15 → 31/07/15

Keywords

Remote sensing
moisture measurement
satellites
soil moisture
surface roughness

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Aljassar, H. K., Petrov, P., Entekhabi, D., Temimi, M., Kodiyan, N., & Ansari, M. (2015). Preliminary field results of soil moisture from Kuwait desert as a core validation site of SMAP satellite. In 2015 IEEE International Geoscience and Remote Sensing Symposium, IGARSS 2015 - Proceedings (pp. 972-975). Article 7325930 (International Geoscience and Remote Sensing Symposium (IGARSS); Vol. 2015-November). https://doi.org/10.1109/IGARSS.2015.7325930

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