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Published in final edited form as: Remote Sens Environ. 2017 Oct 13;204:931–941. doi: 10.1016/j.rse.2017.08.025

Table 8:

Comparison between the 6:00 pm ascending L2_SM_P_E and in situ soil moisture observations over sparse networks between April 2015 and October 2016.

	ubRMSE (m³/m³)				Bias (m³/m³)				RMSE (m³/m³)				Correlation (R)				N
	SCA-H	SCA-V	DCA	SMOS	SCA-H	SCA-V	DCA	SMOS	SCA-H	SCA-V	DCA	SMOS	SCA-H	SCA-V	DCA	SMOS	N
Evergreen Needleleaf Forest	0.047	0.046	0.067	0.050	−0.057	0.006	0.115	−0.095	0.074	0.047	0.133	0.107	0.442	0.461	0.429	0.585	1
Mixed Forest	0.057	0.053	0.051	0.056	−0.040	−0.011	0.029	−0.047	0.070	0.054	0.059	0.073	0.687	0.740	0.771	0.753	1
Open Shrublands	0.040	0.042	0.053	0.057	−0.051	−0.022	0.009	−0.005	0.070	0.058	0.067	0.071	0.485	0.468	0.441	0.421	39
Woody Savannas	0.051	0.047	0.058	0.080	−0.012	0.015	0.053	−0.045	0.086	0.079	0.098	0.114	0.745	0.750	0.625	0.584	16
Savannas	0.033	0.035	0.040	0.047	−0.043	−0.034	−0.029	−0.023	0.063	0.058	0.058	0.073	0.890	0.871	0.861	0.841	3
Grasslands	0.051	0.051	0.059	0.062	−0.079	−0.053	−0.020	−0.043	0.101	0.085	0.082	0.088	0.663	0.667	0.632	0.609	224
Croplands	0.075	0.065	0.070	0.076	−0.037	−0.037	−0.030	−0.047	0.117	0.103	0.100	0.111	0.579	0.610	0.560	0.547	54
Cropland / Natural Vegetation Mosaic	0.061	0.055	0.065	0.079	−0.033	−0.017	0.009	−0.112	0.089	0.083	0.093	0.160	0.723	0.761	0.659	0.544	20
Barren or Sparsely Vegetated	0.019	0.022	0.031	0.036	−0.022	−0.005	0.018	0.004	0.038	0.035	0.045	0.045	0.577	0.516	0.443	0.453	6
L2_SM_P_E averaged over IGBP classes	0.053	0.051	0.059	0.065	−0.063	−0.041	−0.012	−0.043	0.097	0.083	0.084	0.094	0.639	0.645	0.601	0.575	364
L2_SM_P averaged over IGBP classes	0.053	0.051	0.059	0.065	−0.063	−0.043	−0.016	−0.043	0.097	0.083	0.084	0.095	0.618	0.629	0.595	0.578	394