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Gruber, A., and Coauthors (incl. R. H. Reichle):
"Validation practices for satellite soil moisture retrievals: What are (the) errors?"
Remote Sensing of Environment, 244, 111806, doi:10.1016/j.rse.2020.111806, 2020.

Abstract:
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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