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Rajat Bindlish is affiliated with the Goddard Space Flight Center in the United States. Their primary research focuses on environmental and earth sciences, particularly soil moisture and remote sensing technologies. Over the course of their career, they have contributed significantly to the fields of environmental science and earth and planetary sciences.

Their work spans various specialized subfields, including environmental engineering, atmospheric science, aerospace engineering, global and planetary change, and ocean engineering. Bindlish's research topics cover a diverse range of issues related to soil moisture and remote sensing, precipitation measurement and analysis, climate change and permafrost, synthetic aperture radar (SAR) applications and techniques, cryospheric studies and observations, geophysical methods and applications, and soil geostatistics and mapping.

The scientist has published numerous papers in reputable journals and conferences. Notable recent papers 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
  • Groundwater depletion in California's Central Valley accelerates during megadrought, 2022, Nature Communications
  • Improved SMAP Dual-Channel Algorithm for the Retrieval of Soil Moisture, 2020, IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing
  • A global 1-km downscaled SMAP soil moisture product based on thermal inertia theory, 2022, Vadose Zone Journal
  • Assimilation of vegetation optical depth retrievals from passive microwave radiometry, 2020, Hydrology and Earth System Sciences

Frequent collaborators in Bindlish's work include Pang-Wei Liu, S. Chan, Andreas Colliander, Michael H. Cosh, and Joel T. Johnson. These collaborators have coauthored multiple publications alongside Bindlish, indicating ongoing research partnerships.

The scientist regularly publishes in prominent venues such as the IEEE Journal of Selected Topics in Applied Earth Observations and Remote Sensing, Remote Sensing, IGARSS (IEEE International Geoscience and Remote Sensing Symposium), IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing, and the Vadose Zone Journal. These publication venues align closely with their research topics and underscore a focus on remote sensing and earth observation techniques.

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

  • Validation of Advanced Microwave Scanning Radiometer Soil Moisture Products

    T J Jackson;M H Cosh;R Bindlish;P J Starks

  • Validation of Soil Moisture and Ocean Salinity (SMOS) Soil Moisture Over Watershed Networks in the U.S.

    T. J. Jackson;R. Bindlish;M. H. Cosh;Tianjie Zhao

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

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

  • Parameterization of vegetation backscatter in radar-based, soil moisture estimation

    Rajat Bindlish;Ana P Barros

  • Watershed scale temporal and spatial stability of soil moisture and its role in validating satellite estimates

    Michael H. Cosh;Thomas J. Jackson;Rajat Bindlish;John H. Prueger

  • Overview of SMOS performance in terms of global soil moisture monitoring after six years in operation

    Yann H. Kerr;A. Al-Yaari;N. Rodriguez-Fernandez;M. Parrens

  • Deriving land surface temperature from Landsat 5 and 7 during SMEX02/SMACEX

    Fuqin Li;Thomas J. Jackson;William P. Kustas;Thomas J. Schmugge

  • Temporal persistence and stability of surface soil moisture in a semi-arid watershed

    Michael H. Cosh;Thomas J. Jackson;Susan Moran;Rajat Bindlish

  • Radar Vegetation Index for Estimating the Vegetation Water Content of Rice and Soybean

    Yihyun Kim;T. Jackson;R. Bindlish;Hoonyol Lee

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

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

  • Microwave vegetation indices for short vegetation covers from satellite passive microwave sensor AMSR-E

    Jiancheng Shi;Jiancheng Shi;T. Jackson;J. Tao;J. Du

  • 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

  • Multifrequency Soil Moisture Inversion from SAR Measurements with the Use of IEM

    Rajat Bindlish;Ana P. Barros

  • The Contributions of Precipitation and Soil Moisture Observations to the Skill of Soil Moisture Estimates in a Land Data Assimilation System

    Qing Liu;Qing Liu;Rolf H. Reichle;Rajat Bindlish;Michael H. Cosh

  • Soil moisture estimates from TRMM Microwave Imager observations over the Southern United States

    Rajat Bindlish;Thomas J. Jackson;Eric F. Wood;Huilin Gao

  • Remote monitoring of soil moisture using passive microwave-based techniques — Theoretical basis and overview of selected algorithms for AMSR-E

    I.E. Mladenova;T.J. Jackson;E. Njoku;R. Bindlish

  • Development of a distributed biosphere hydrological model and its evaluation with the Southern Great Plains Experiments (SGP97 and SGP99)

    Lei Wang;Toshio Koike;Kun Yang;Thomas J. Jackson

  • Groundwater depletion in California’s Central Valley accelerates during megadrought

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  • Soil moisture mapping and AMSR-E validation using the PSR in SMEX02

    Rajat Bindlish;Thomas J. Jackson;Albin J. Gasiewski;Marian Klein

Frequent Co-Authors

Thomas J. Jackson
Thomas J. Jackson Agricultural Research Service
Michael H. Cosh
Michael H. Cosh Agricultural Research Service
Andreas Colliander
Andreas Colliander California Institute of Technology
Peggy E. O'Neill
Peggy E. O'Neill Goddard Space Flight Center
Eni G. Njoku
Eni G. Njoku Jet Propulsion Lab
Simon Yueh
Simon Yueh Jet Propulsion Lab
Aaron A. Berg
Aaron A. Berg University of Guelph
Yann Kerr
Yann Kerr Federal University of Toulouse Midi-Pyrénées
David D. Bosch
David D. Bosch Agricultural Research Service
Todd G. Caldwell
Todd G. Caldwell United States Geological Survey

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