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  • 2026 - Research.com Environmental Sciences in United States Leader Award
  • 2025 - Research.com Environmental Sciences in United States Leader Award
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Overview

Thomas J. Jackson is affiliated with the Agricultural Research Service in the United States. Their research primarily focuses on Earth and Planetary Sciences as well as Environmental Science, with significant contributions in related subfields including Atmospheric Science, Environmental Engineering, Oceanography, Aerospace Engineering, and Civil and Structural Engineering.

The scientist's main topics of work center on Soil Moisture and Remote Sensing, Precipitation Measurement and Analysis, Climate Change and Permafrost, Cryospheric Studies and Observations, Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR) Applications and Techniques, Soil and Unsaturated Flow, and Marine and Coastal Ecosystems.

Among their recent publications are:

  • Soil moisture experiment in the Luan River supporting new satellite mission opportunities (2020) in Remote Sensing of Environment
  • Validation of Soil Moisture Data Products From the NASA SMAP Mission (2021) in IEEE Journal of Selected Topics in Applied Earth Observations and Remote Sensing
  • Sentinel-1 soil moisture at 1 km resolution: a validation study (2021) in Remote Sensing of Environment
  • Retrievals of soil moisture and vegetation optical depth using a multi-channel collaborative algorithm (2021) in Remote Sensing of Environment
  • Comprehensive analysis of alternative downscaled soil moisture products (2020) in Remote Sensing of Environment

The frequent co-authors who have collaborated with Thomas J. Jackson include Jeffrey P. Walker, Nan Ye, Yann H. Kerr, Xiaoling Wu, and Edward Kim.

Key publication venues where this scientist's work appears regularly include:

  • Remote Sensing of Environment
  • IEEE Journal of Selected Topics in Applied Earth Observations and Remote Sensing
  • IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing
  • IEEE Geoscience and Remote Sensing Letters
  • SSRN Electronic Journal

Best Publications

  • The Soil Moisture Active Passive (SMAP) Mission

    Dara Entekhabi;Eni G Njoku;Peggy E O'Neill;Kent H Kellogg

  • Soil moisture retrieval from AMSR-E

    E.G. Njoku;T.J. Jackson;V. Lakshmi;T.K. Chan

  • Vegetation effects on the microwave emission of soils

    T.J. Jackson;T.J. Schmugge

  • The International Soil Moisture Network: a data hosting facility for global in situ soil moisture measurements

    W. A. Dorigo;W. Wagner;R. Hohensinn;S. Hahn

  • Vegetation water content mapping using Landsat data derived normalized difference water index for corn and soybeans

    Thomas J. Jackson;Daoyi Chen;Michael Cosh;Fuqin Li

  • III. Measuring surface soil moisture using passive microwave remote sensing

    Thomas J. Jackson

  • A model for microwave emission from vegetation-covered fields

    T. Mo;B. J. Choudhury;T. J. Schmugge;J. R. Wang

  • Soil moisture mapping at regional scales using microwave radiometry: the Southern Great Plains Hydrology Experiment

    T.J. Jackson;D.M. Le Vine;A.Y. Hsu;A. Oldak

  • Remote sensing in hydrology

    Thomas J. Schmugge;William P. Kustas;Jerry C. Ritchie;Thomas J. Jackson

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

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

  • Field observations of soil moisture variability across scales

    James S. Famiglietti;Dongryeol Ryu;Aaron A. Berg;Matthew Rodell

  • Vegetation water content estimation for corn and soybeans using spectral indices derived from MODIS near- and short-wave infrared bands

    Daoyi Chen;Jingfeng Huang;Thomas J. Jackson

  • Survey of methods for soil moisture determination

    T. J. Schmugge;T. J. Jackson;H. L. McKim

  • 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

  • Crop condition and yield simulations using Landsat and MODIS

    P.C. Doraiswamy;J.L. Hatfield;T.J. Jackson;B. Akhmedov

  • Ground‐based investigation of soil moisture variability within remote sensing footprints During the Southern Great Plains 1997 (SGP97) Hydrology Experiment

    J. S. Famiglietti;J. A. Devereaux;C. A. Laymon;T. Tsegaye

  • The USDA Natural Resources Conservation Service Soil Climate Analysis Network (SCAN)

    Garry L. Schaefer;Michael H. Cosh;Thomas J. Jackson

  • Estimating soil water‐holding capacities by linking the Food and Agriculture Organization Soil map of the world with global pedon databases and continuous pedotransfer functions

    C. A. Reynolds;T. J. Jackson;W. J. Rawls

  • Modelling the Passive Microwave Signature from Land Surfaces: A Review of Recent Results and Application to the L-Band SMOS SMAP Soil Moisture Retrieval Algorithms

    J.-P. Wigneron;T.J. Jackson;P. O'Neill;G. De Lannoy

  • 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

Frequent Co-Authors

Rajat Bindlish
Rajat Bindlish Goddard Space Flight Center
Michael H. Cosh
Michael H. Cosh Agricultural Research Service
Peggy E. O'Neill
Peggy E. O'Neill Goddard Space Flight Center
Andreas Colliander
Andreas Colliander California Institute of Technology
Eni G. Njoku
Eni G. Njoku Jet Propulsion Lab
Jeffrey P. Walker
Jeffrey P. Walker Monash University
Simon Yueh
Simon Yueh Jet Propulsion Lab
Venkat Lakshmi
Venkat Lakshmi University of Virginia
Aaron A. Berg
Aaron A. Berg University of Guelph

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