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Andreas Colliander is affiliated with the California Institute of Technology in the United States. Their research primarily intersects the fields of Environmental Science and Earth and Planetary Sciences, with significant contributions spanning related subfields including Atmospheric Science, Environmental Engineering, Aerospace Engineering, Civil and Structural Engineering, and Global and Planetary Change.

The scientist's work focuses on a variety of topics within environmental and geoscience research. These topics include:

  • Soil Moisture and Remote Sensing
  • Precipitation Measurement and Analysis
  • Cryospheric Studies and Observations
  • Climate Change and Permafrost
  • Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR) Applications and Techniques
  • Soil Geostatistics and Mapping
  • Soil and Unsaturated Flow

Colliander has been a frequent contributor to several scientific publication venues. The most common venues where their work appears are:

  • IEEE Journal of Selected Topics in Applied Earth Observations and Remote Sensing
  • Remote Sensing of Environment
  • IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing
  • IGARSS 2022 - 2022 IEEE International Geoscience and Remote Sensing Symposium
  • Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)

Collaborations form an important part of their research output. Frequent co-authors include:

  • Michael H. Cosh
  • Simon Yueh
  • Aaron Berg
  • Dara Entekhabi
  • John S. Kimball

Recent publications highlight topics related to satellite soil moisture retrievals and remote sensing data validation. Selected papers by Andreas Colliander include:

  • "Validation of Soil Moisture Data Products From the NASA SMAP Mission," 2021, IEEE Journal of Selected Topics in Applied Earth Observations and Remote Sensing
  • "Validation practices for satellite soil moisture retrievals: What are (the) errors?," 2020, Remote Sensing of Environment
  • "Improved SMAP Dual-Channel Algorithm for the Retrieval of Soil Moisture," 2020, IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing (co-authored by Julián Chaubell)
  • "A new SMAP soil moisture and vegetation optical depth product (SMAP-IB): Algorithm, assessment and inter-comparison," 2022, Remote Sensing of Environment (co-authored by Xiaojun Li)
  • "A Semiempirical Modeling of Soil Moisture, Vegetation, and Surface Roughness Impact on CYGNSS Reflectometry Data," 2020, IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing (co-authored by Simon Yueh)

Best Publications

  • Validation of SMAP surface soil moisture products with core validation sites

    A. Colliander;T.J. Jackson;R. Bindlish;S. Chan

  • Assessment of the SMAP Passive Soil Moisture Product

    Steven K. Chan;Rajat Bindlish;Peggy E. O'Neill;Eni Njoku

  • Development and assessment of the SMAP enhanced passive soil moisture product

    S. K. Chan;R. Bindlish;P. O'Neill;T. Jackson

  • Assessment of the SMAP Level-4 surface and root-zone soil moisture product using in situ measurements

    Rolf H. Reichle;Gabrielle J. M. De Lannoy;Qing Liu;Joseph V. Ardizzone

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

    A. Gruber;G. de Lannoy;C. Albergel;A. Al-Yaari

  • The Soil Moisture Active Passive Validation Experiment 2012 (SMAPVEX12): Prelaunch Calibration and Validation of the SMAP Soil Moisture Algorithms

    Heather McNairn;Thomas J. Jackson;Grant Wiseman;Stephane Belair

  • The SMAP and Copernicus Sentinel 1A/B microwave active-passive high resolution surface soil moisture product

    Narendra N. Das;Dara Entekhabi;R. Scott Dunbar;Mario J. Chaubell

  • Global-scale Evaluation of SMAP, SMOS and ASCAT Soil Moisture Products using Triple Collocation.

    Fan Chen;Wade T. Crow;Rajat Bindlish;Andreas Colliander

  • Version 4 of the SMAP Level-4 Soil Moisture algorithm and data product

    Rolf H. Reichle;Qing Liu;Randal D. Koster;Wade T. Crow

  • Assessment and inter-comparison of recently developed/reprocessed microwave satellite soil moisture products using ISMN ground-based measurements

    A. Al-Yaari;J.-P. Wigneron;W. Dorigo;A. Colliander

  • SMAP Handbook–Soil Moisture Active Passive: Mapping Soil Moisture and Freeze/Thaw from Space

    Dara Entekhabi;Simon Yueh;Peggy E O’Neill;Kent H Kellogg

  • SMAP soil moisture improves global evapotranspiration

    Adam J. Purdy;Adam J. Purdy;Joshua B. Fisher;Michael L. Goulden;Andreas Colliander

  • Tests of the SMAP Combined Radar and Radiometer Algorithm Using Airborne Field Campaign Observations and Simulated Data

    Narendra Narayan Das;Dara Entekhabi;Eni G. Njoku;Jiancheng J. C. Shi

  • Retrieving landscape freeze/thaw state from Soil Moisture Active Passive (SMAP) radar and radiometer measurements.

    Chris Derksen;Xiaolan Xu;R. Scott Dunbar;Andreas Colliander

  • A new SMAP soil moisture and vegetation optical depth product (SMAP-IB): Algorithm, assessment and inter-comparison

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  • Application of Triple Collocation in Ground-Based Validation of Soil Moisture Active/Passive (SMAP) Level 2 Data Products

    Fan Chen;Wade T. Crow;Andreas Colliander;Michael H. Cosh

  • SMOS Calibration

    M.A. Brown;F. Torres;I. Corbella;A. Colliander

  • MIRAS end-to-end calibration: application to SMOS L1 processor

    I. Corbella;F. Torres;A. Camps;A. Colliander

  • Estimating Surface Soil Moisture from SMAP Observations Using a Neural Network Technique

    J. Kolassa;J. Kolassa;R.H. Reichle;Q. Liu;S.H. Alemohammad

  • A Comparative Study of the SMAP Passive Soil Moisture Product With Existing Satellite-Based Soil Moisture Products

    Mariko S. Burgin;Andreas Colliander;Eni G. Njoku;Steven K. Chan

  • Spatial Downscaling of SMAP Soil Moisture Using MODIS Land Surface Temperature and NDVI During SMAPVEX15

    Andreas Colliander;Joshua B. Fisher;Gregory Halverson;Olivier Merlin

  • Improved SMAP Dual-Channel Algorithm for the Retrieval of Soil Moisture

    Mario Julian Chaubell;Simon H. Yueh;R. Scott Dunbar;Andreas Colliander

Frequent Co-Authors

Michael H. Cosh
Michael H. Cosh Agricultural Research Service
Thomas J. Jackson
Thomas J. Jackson Agricultural Research Service
Simon Yueh
Simon Yueh Jet Propulsion Lab
Rajat Bindlish
Rajat Bindlish Goddard Space Flight Center
Aaron A. Berg
Aaron A. Berg University of Guelph
Eni G. Njoku
Eni G. Njoku Jet Propulsion Lab
Peggy E. O'Neill
Peggy E. O'Neill Goddard Space Flight Center
Jeffrey P. Walker
Jeffrey P. Walker Monash University
John S. Kimball
John S. Kimball University of Montana

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