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Remote Sensing 2009, 1, 3-21; doi:10.3390/rs1010003 OPEN ACCESS Remote Sensing ISSN 2072-4292 /journal/remotesensing Article Non-parametric Methods for Soil Moisture Retrieval from Satellite Remote Sensing Data Tarendra Lakhankar 1,*, Hosni Ghedira 2, Marouane Temimi 1, Manajit Sengupta 3, 1 1 Reza Khanbilvardi and Reginald Blake 1 NOAA-Cooperative Remote Sensing Science Technology Center (NOAA-CREST), City University of New York, NY 10031 USA; E-mails: temimi@ (Marouane Temimi); khanbilvardi@ (Reza Khanbilvardi); rblake@ (Reginald Blake) 2 American University in Dubai P.O. Box: 28282 Dubai, U.A.E; E-mail: hghedira@ (Hosni Ghedira) 3 Co-operative Institute for Research in the Atmosphere (CIRA), Colorado State University, Fort Collins, CO 80521 USA; E-mail: Sengupta@ (Manajit Sengupta) * Author to whom correspondence should be addressed; E-mail: tlakhankar@; Tel.: +001-212-650-5815; Fax: +001-212-650 8097 Received: 20 February 2009; in revised form: 24 March 2009 / Accepted: 25 March 2009 / Published: 27 March 2009 Abstract: Satellite remote sensing observations have the potential for efficient and reliable mapping of spatial soil moisture distributions. However, soil moisture retrievals from active microwave remote sensing data are typically complex due to inherent difficulty in characterizing interactions among land surface parameters that contribute to the retrieval process. Therefore, adequate physical mathematical descriptions of microwave backscatter interactio