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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
Session Co-Chairs: Rajat Bindlish, Goddard Space Flight Center and Jeffrey Walker, Monash University
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; Ichirow Kaihotsu, Hiroshima University; Naoto Ebuchi, Hokkaido University; Misako Kachi, Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency; Keiji Imaoka, Yamaguchi University
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; Dara Entekhabi, Massachusetts Institute of Technology; Rajat Bindlish, Goddard Space Flight Center; Mario Chaubell, California Institute of Technology; Emmanuel Dinnat, Goddard Space Flight Center
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; Yannick Bocko, Universite Marien Gnouabi; Alexander Cobb, Nanyang Technological University; Greta Dargie, University of Leeds; Ian Davenport, University of Edinburgh; Rolf Reichle, NASA GSFC; Michel Bechtold, KU Leuven
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; Tien-Hao Liao, National Taipei University of Technology; Firoz Borah, Zhenming Huang, Enes Koc, University of Michigan
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; Moritz Link, Roberto Fernández-Moran, Maria Piles, University of Valencia; Xiaojun Li, Southwest Jiaotong University; Jean-Pierre Wigneron, INRAE Bordeaux