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2026 IEEE International Geoscience and Remote Sensing Symposium
9 - 14 August 2026 • Washington, D.C.
MO3.R16: Soil Moisture: Ground to Space (Satellite Missions and Retrievals Algorithms)
Monday, 10 August, 13:45 - 15:00
Location: Lincoln East
Session Type: Oral
Track: Community Contributed Themes
Mon, 10 Aug, 13:45 - 14:00

MO3.R16.1: DEVELOPMENT OF THE AMSR SERIES STANDARD AND RESEARCH PRODUCTS FOR SOIL MOISTURE
Toshio Koike, Hiroyuki Tsutsui, International Centre for Water Hazard and Risk Management, Japan; Ichirow Kaihotsu, Hiroshima University, Japan; Naoto Ebuchi, Hokkaido University, Japan; Misako Kachi, Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency, Japan; Keiji Imaoka, Yamaguchi University, Japan
Mon, 10 Aug, 14:00 - 14:15

MO3.R16.2: Performance of NASA SMAP Brightness Temperature and Soil Moisture Observations over a Decade
Simon Yueh, NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory, United States; Dara Entekhabi, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, United States; Rajat Bindlish, Goddard Space Flight Center, United States; Mario Chaubell, California Institute of Technology, United States; Emmanuel Dinnat, Goddard Space Flight Center, United States
Mon, 10 Aug, 14:15 - 14:30

MO3.R16.3: Insights into the hydrology of the Cuvette Centrale peatlands through SMOS L-band data assimilation
Sebastian Apers, Gabrielle De Lannoy, KU Leuven, Belgium; Yannick Bocko, Universite Marien Gnouabi, Congo (Brazzaville); Alexander Cobb, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore; Greta Dargie, University of Leeds, United Kingdom; Ian Davenport, University of Edinburgh, United Kingdom; Rolf Reichle, NASA GSFC, United States; Michel Bechtold, KU Leuven, Belgium
Mon, 10 Aug, 14:30 - 14:45

MO3.R16.4: Active and Passive Remote Sensing of Soil Moisture Based on Fast 3D Numerical Solutions of Maxwell Equations
Leung Tsang, University of Michigan, United States; Tien-Hao Liao, National Taipei University of Technology, Taiwan; Firoz Borah, Zhenming Huang, Enes Koc, University of Michigan, United States
Mon, 10 Aug, 14:45 - 15:00

MO3.R16.5: TOWARD AN OPTIMAL SOIL ROUGHNESS PARAMETERIZATION FOR CONSISTENT SOIL MOISTURE AND VEGETATION OPTICAL DEPTH RETRIEVALS FROM CIMR
Debolina Mondal, Karthikeyan Lanka, Preethi Konkathi, Indian Institute of Technology, Bombay, India; Moritz Link, Roberto Fernández-Moran, Maria Piles, University of Valencia, Spain; Xiaojun Li, Southwest Jiaotong University, China; Jean-Pierre Wigneron, INRAE Bordeaux, France