Soil Moisture Active Passive (SMAP) is a NASA environmental monitoring satellite that measures soil moisture across the planet. It is designed to collect...

he served as project scientist of NASA's first soil moisture mission, the Soil Moisture Active Passive (SMAP) mission, launched in 2015. Njoku was born...

Swarm ADM-Aeolus EarthCARE BIOMASS FLEX Aquarius payload (NASA) Soil Moisture Active Passive satellite Proba-2 "Two new ESA satellites successfully lofted...

satellite mission and predecessor of the Soil Moisture Active Passive satellite, providing measurements of soil-moisture and freeze thaw state Hydros, a fictional...

by Europe and Eurasia; Global Precipitation Measurement and Soil Moisture Active Passive student research campaigns with NASA launched 2014: 5th GLE held...

Earth's ecosystems through satellite imagery, including the Soil Moisture Active Passive and NASA-ISRO Synthetic Aperture Radar satellites. She has also...

geology, and many more). Types of sensors on these satellites include passive and active remote sensors. Sensors on Earth observation satellites often take...

Delta II to support the Orbiting Carbon Observatory (OCO-2), Soil Moisture Active Passive (SMAP), and Joint Polar Satellite System (JPSS-1 – NOAA-20) missions...

Metal World Ranger program Shuttle Radar Topography Mission Soil Moisture Active Passive (SMAP) Spitzer Space Telescope Stardust Surveyor program SWOT...

aerospace engineer. She has been a systems engineer for the Soil Moisture Active Passive (SMAP), Cassini, and InSight Mars missions. She is currently...

Award (Soil Moisture Active Passive Mission), 2017 NASA Outstanding Public Leadership Medal, 2017 Science Team Leader, Soil Moisture Active Passive (SMAP)...

SB, et al., “Surface soil moisture retrieval using the L-band synthetic aperture radar on-board the Soil Moisture Active Passive (SMAP) satellite and...

research satellite. SMAP provides measurements of the land surface soil moisture and freeze-thaw state with near-global revisit coverage in 2–3 days...

part of Exploration Flight Test-1. A Delta II rocket orbited a Soil Moisture Active Passive satellite in January 2015. In March 2015, an Atlas V rocket carried...

Mail Access Protocol, an Internet protocol for email delivery Soil Moisture Active Passive, an American environmental research satellite Supervisor Mode...

Structural dampness is the presence of unwanted moisture in the structure of a building, either the result of intrusion from outside or condensation from...

upper atmosphere (night sky), the outdoor air (wind), and the earth/soil. Passive cooling is an important tool for design of buildings for climate change...

form in most soils. Aluminium is not a plant nutrient, and as such, is not actively taken up by the plants, but enters plant roots passively through osmosis...

inch. Variations in R-value of soil may be attributed to different soil moisture levels, with lower R values as moisture level increases. The most superficial...

Orbiting Carbon Observatory 1/2, NPP Sounder PEATE, and the Soil Moisture Active Passive (SMAP) Earth science missions. Mattmann was also one of the principal...

(2011); NuSTAR (2012); Orbiting Carbon Observatory 2 (2014); Soil Moisture Active Passive (2015); and Jason 3 (2016). During flight projects for NASA,...

less resistant plants, which are damaged. "Active pyrophytes" have a similar competing advantage to passive pyrophytes, but they also contain volatile...

damaged whereas the oxide layer does not. Passivation in natural environments such as air, water and soil at moderate pH is seen in such materials as...

obtainable through other forms of imagery intelligence such as the moisture content of soil. This data can also help distinguish camouflage netting from natural...

where active ingestion (drinking) is observable by jaw movements when moisture is plentiful, e.g. water puddles. The same hydrophilic moisture-harvesting...

sensors. The radiation can be naturally sourced (passive remote sensing), or produced by machines (active remote sensing) and reflected off of the Earth...

in the subsurface, vadose zone soil properties (e.g., soil grain size, soil moisture content, soil permeability, soil carbon content), subsurface heterogeneity...

sensing can be divided into two types of methods: Passive remote sensing and Active remote sensing. Passive sensors gather radiation that is emitted or reflected...

Michigan. Sarabandi is a member of the Science Team for NASA Soil Moisture Active and Passive (SMAP). This is an orbiting observatory (a polar orbit around...

2012 which gathered soil moisture and crop biomass data to assist NASA in calibrating and validating their Soil Moisture Active Passive (SMAP) satellite...