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It is crucial to evaluate the errors in the newest L-band SMAP satellite-derived soil moisture products, before they are routinely used in scientific research and applications. This study represents the first evaluation of the SMAP radiometer soil moisture product over China. In this paper, a preliminary evaluation was performed using sparse in situ measurements from 655 China Meteorological Administration (CMA) monitoring stations between 1 April 2015 and 31 August 2016. The SMAP radiometer-derived soil moisture product was evaluated against two schemes of original soil moisture and the soil moisture anomaly in different geographical zones and land cover types. Four performance metrics, i.e., bias, root mean square error (RMSE), unbiased root mean square error (ubRMSE), and the correlation coefficient (R), were used in the accuracy evaluation. The results indicated that the SMAP radiometer-derived soil moisture product agreed relatively well with the in situ measurements, with ubRMSE values of 0.058 cm3\u00b7cm\u22123 and 0.039 cm3\u00b7cm\u22123 based on original data and anomaly data, respectively. The values of the SMAP radiometer-based soil moisture product were overestimated in wet areas, especially in the Southwest China, South China, Southeast China, East China, and Central China zones. The accuracies over croplands and in Northeast China were the worst. Soil moisture, surface roughness, and vegetation are crucial factors contributing to the error in the soil moisture product. Moreover, radio frequency interference contributes to the overestimation over the northern portion of the East China zone. This study provides guidelines for the application of the SMAP-derived soil moisture product in China and acts as a reference for improving the retrieval algorithm.<\/jats:p>","DOI":"10.3390\/rs9030292","type":"journal-article","created":{"date-parts":[[2017,3,20]],"date-time":"2017-03-20T11:39:09Z","timestamp":1490009949000},"page":"292","update-policy":"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.3390\/mdpi_crossmark_policy","source":"Crossref","is-referenced-by-count":26,"title":["Preliminary Evaluation of the SMAP Radiometer Soil Moisture Product over China Using In Situ Data"],"prefix":"10.3390","volume":"9","author":[{"ORCID":"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0000-0001-6116-8825","authenticated-orcid":false,"given":"Yayong","family":"Sun","sequence":"first","affiliation":[{"name":"State Key Laboratory of Simulation and Regulation of Water Cycles in River Basin, China Institute of Water Resources and Hydropower Research, Beijing 100038, China"},{"name":"Research Center on Flood and Drought Disaster Reduction of Ministry of Water Resources, China Institute of Water Resources and Hydropower Research, Beijing 100038, China"}]},{"given":"Shifeng","family":"Huang","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Research Center on Flood and Drought Disaster Reduction of Ministry of Water Resources, China Institute of Water Resources and Hydropower Research, Beijing 100038, China"}]},{"given":"Jianwei","family":"Ma","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Research Center on Flood and Drought Disaster Reduction of Ministry of Water Resources, China Institute of Water Resources and Hydropower Research, Beijing 100038, China"}]},{"given":"Jiren","family":"Li","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Research Center on Flood and Drought Disaster Reduction of Ministry of Water Resources, China Institute of Water Resources and Hydropower Research, Beijing 100038, China"}]},{"given":"Xiaotao","family":"Li","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Research Center on Flood and Drought Disaster Reduction of Ministry of Water Resources, China Institute of Water Resources and Hydropower Research, Beijing 100038, China"}]},{"given":"Hui","family":"Wang","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Research Center on Flood and Drought Disaster Reduction of Ministry of Water Resources, China Institute of Water Resources and Hydropower Research, Beijing 100038, China"}]},{"given":"Sheng","family":"Chen","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Research Center on Flood and Drought Disaster Reduction of Ministry of Water Resources, China Institute of Water Resources and Hydropower Research, Beijing 100038, China"}]},{"given":"Wenbin","family":"Zang","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Research Center on Flood and Drought Disaster Reduction of Ministry of Water Resources, China Institute of Water Resources and Hydropower Research, Beijing 100038, China"}]}],"member":"1968","published-online":{"date-parts":[[2017,3,20]]},"reference":[{"key":"ref_1","doi-asserted-by":"crossref","first-page":"798","DOI":"10.1175\/1520-0442(1992)005<0798:VILSWB>2.0.CO;2","article-title":"Variability in large-scale water balance with land surface atmosphere interaction","volume":"5","author":"Entekhabi","year":"1992","journal-title":"J. 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