Validation practices for satellite soil moisture retrievals: What are (the) errors?

Gruber, A.; De Lannoy, G.; Albergel, C.; Al-Yaari, A.; Brocca, L.; Calvet, J.-C.; Colliander, A.; Cosh, M.; Crow, W.; Dorigo, W.; Draper, C.; Hirschi, M.; Kerr, Y.; Konings, A.; Lahoz, W.; McColl, K.; Montzka, C.; Muñoz-Sabater, J.; Peng, J.; Reichle, R.; Richaume, P.; Rüdiger, C.; Scanlon, T.; van der Schalie, R.; Wigneron, J.-P.; Wagner, W.

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Validation practices for satellite soil moisture retrievals: What are (the) errors?

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Remote Sensing of Environment
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Gruber, A. ; De Lannoy, G. ; Albergel, C. ; Al-Yaari, A. ; Brocca, L. ; Calvet, J.-C. ; Colliander, A. ; Cosh, M. ; Crow, W. ; Dorigo, W. ; Draper, C. ; Hirschi, M. ; Kerr, Y. ; Konings, A. ; Lahoz, W. ; McColl, K. ; Montzka, C. ; Muñoz-Sabater, J. ; Peng, J. ; Reichle, R. ; Richaume, P. ; Rüdiger, C. ; Scanlon, T. ; van der Schalie, R. ; Wigneron, J.-P. ; Wagner, W.
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This paper presents a community effort to develop good practice guidelines for the validation of global coarse-scale satellite soil moisture products. We provide theoretical background, a review of state-of-the-art methodologies for estimating errors in soil moisture data sets, practical recommendations on data pre-processing and presentation of statistical results, and a recommended validation protocol that is supplemented with an example validation exercise focused on microwave-based surface soil moisture products. We conclude by identifying research gaps that should be addressed in the near future.
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Error Characterization Error Estimation Remote Sensing Soil Moisture Error Characterization Error Estimation Remote Sensing Soil Moisture
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Remote Sensing of Environment 244 (2020) 11180
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