SMAP has the potential to enable a diverse range of applications including drought and flood guidance, agricultural productivity estimation, weather forecasting, climate predictions, human health risk, and defense systems. Applications across agencies are a unique feature of SMAP. Some of these applications are summarized on the Applications page.

Planning for SMAP applications has been initiated to identify early adopters, current partners, and future potential users of SMAP data. A SMAP Applications Working Group (AppWG) has been formed that includes the following objectives:

• Assess current applications benefits and requirements for SMAP products
• Develop a community of end-users that understand SMAP capabilities and are interested in using SMAP products in their application
• Target partners who can work with the SMAP project during the pre-launch period, particularly to assess impacts on their applications
• Provide information about SMAP to the broad user community

SMAP AppWG activities will be carried out mainly through emails and telecons. The AppWG will also take advantage of member attendance at conferences such as AGU and IGARSS to meet in person when possible.

SMAP mission data products will be archived and made available through one of the NASA Distributed Active Archive Centers (DAACs). The list of currently planned SMAP data products and data latencies is available on the Data Products page.

The first SMAP Applications Workshop was held on September 9-10, 2009 at the NOAA Science Center Auditorium, Silver Spring, MD.

For further information on working group activities, and to join the group, please contact:

Dr. Susan Moran
SMAP/SDT Applications Working Group Lead
USDA ARS Southwest Watershed Research Center
Tucson, AZ, USA
Tel: (520) 670-6380 x171