##### Soil Moisture Content(SMC) validation #####

To evaluate the AMSR2 SMC product, it is needed to consider the effect of rainfall, vegetation, land cover and elevation.

These images are shown as below,
*Upper-left: AMSR2 SMC L3 (Daily / Ascending)
*Upper-right: AMSR2 SMC L3 (Daily / Descending)
*2nd from the top-left: SMAP Soil Moisture Content (Daily / Descending)-See also http://smap.jpl.nasa.gov/data/
*3rd from the top-left: GSMaP Rainfall (Daily) -See also http://sharaku.eorc.jaxa.jp/GSMaP_crest/index.html)
*3rd from the top-right: MODIS NDVI (half monthly) -See also http://www.eorc.jaxa.jp/cgi-bin/jasmes/monthly/jasmes_list_v3.cgi?prod=NDVI&type=map&area=GL&lang=en)
*Lower-left: Landcover by ESA/GLOBCOVER (One data) -See also http://toyo.mediasfrance.org/?-land-cover-68-
*Lower-right: Elevation by NASA/SRTM30 (One data) -See also http://www2.jpl.nasa.gov/srtm/