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This study analyzed and evaluated the temporal changes and accuracy of the AMSR-E\/NASA SM product and compared it with the AMSR-E\/JAXA SM product. The accuracy of both AMSR-E\/NASA and JAXA SM was low, with RMSE (root mean square error) &gt; 0.1 cm3 cm\u22123 against the in-situ SM measurements, especially the AMSR-E\/NASA SM. Compared with the AMSR-E\/JAXA SM, the dynamic range of AMSR-E\/NASA SM is very narrow in many regions and does not reflect the intra- and inter-annual variability of soil moisture. We evaluated both data products by building a linear relationship between the SM and the Microwave Polarization Difference Index (MPDI) to simplify the AMSR-E\/NASA SM retrieval algorithm on the basis of the observed relationship between samples extracted from the MPDI and SM data. We obtained the coefficients of this linear relationship (i.e., A0 and A1) using in-situ measurements of SM and brightness temperature (TB) data simulated with the same radiative transfer model applied to develop the AMSR-E\/NASA SM algorithm. Finally, the linear relationships between the SM and MPDI were used to retrieve the SM monthly from AMSR-E TB data, and the estimated SM was validated using the in-situ SM measurements in the Naqu area on the Tibetan Plateau of China. We obtained a steeper slope, i.e., A1 = 8, with the in-situ SM measurements against A1 = 1, when using the NASA SM retrievals. The low A1 value is a measure of the low sensitivity of the NASA SM retrievals to MPDI and its narrow dynamic range. These results were confirmed by analyzing a data set collected in Poland. In the case of the Tibetan Plateau, the higher value A1 = 8 gave more accurate monthly AMSR-E SM retrievals with RMSE = 0.065 cm3 cm\u22123. The dynamic range of the improved retrievals was more consistent with the in-situ SM measurements than with both the AMSR-E\/NASA and JAXA SM products in the Naqu area of the Tibetan Plateau in 2011.<\/jats:p>","DOI":"10.3390\/rs11232748","type":"journal-article","created":{"date-parts":[[2019,11,22]],"date-time":"2019-11-22T09:02:52Z","timestamp":1574413372000},"page":"2748","update-policy":"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.3390\/mdpi_crossmark_policy","source":"Crossref","is-referenced-by-count":6,"title":["Improving the AMSR-E\/NASA Soil Moisture Data Product Using In-Situ Measurements from the Tibetan Plateau"],"prefix":"10.3390","volume":"11","author":[{"ORCID":"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0000-0001-5265-459X","authenticated-orcid":false,"given":"Qiuxia","family":"Xie","sequence":"first","affiliation":[{"name":"State Key Laboratory of Remote Sensing Science, Institute of Remote Sensing and Digital Earth, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100101, China"},{"name":"University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100049, China"}]},{"given":"Massimo","family":"Menenti","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"State Key Laboratory of Remote Sensing Science, Institute of Remote Sensing and Digital Earth, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100101, China"},{"name":"Department of Geoscience and Remote Sensing, Delft University of Technology, 2628 CN Delft, The Netherlands"}]},{"given":"Li","family":"Jia","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"State Key Laboratory of Remote Sensing Science, Institute of Remote Sensing and Digital Earth, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100101, China"}]}],"member":"1968","published-online":{"date-parts":[[2019,11,22]]},"reference":[{"key":"ref_1","doi-asserted-by":"crossref","first-page":"106","DOI":"10.1016\/j.advwatres.2017.09.006","article-title":"Four decades of microwave satellite soil moisture observations: Part 1. 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