In this study the Microwave Imaging Radiometer using Aperture Synthesis (MIRAS) sensor onboard the Soil Moisture
Ocean Salinity (SMOS) and Advanced Microwave Scanning Radiometer 2 (AMSR2) sensor onboard the Global Change
Observation Mission-Water (GCOM-W1) based soil moisture retrievals were revised to obtain better accuracy of soil
moisture and higher data acquisition rate over East Asia. These satellite-based soil moisture products are revised against
a reference land model data set, called Global Land Data Assimilation System (GLDAS), using Cumulative Distribution
Function (CDF) matching and regression approach. Since MIRAS sensor is perturbed by radio frequency interferences
(RFI), the worst part of soil moisture retrieval, East Asia, constantly have been undergoing loss of data acquisition rate.
To overcome this limitation, the threshold of RFI, DQX, and composite days were suggested to increase data acquisition
rate while maintaining appropriate data quality through comparison of land surface model data set. The revised MIRAS
and AMSR2 products were compared with in-situ soil moisture and land model data set. The results showed that the
revising process increased correlation coefficient values of SMOS and AMSR2 averagely 27% 11% and decreased the root
mean square deviation (RMSD) decreased 61% and 57% as compared to in-situ data set. In addition, when the revised
products’ correlation coefficient values are calculated with model data set, about 80% and 90% of pixels’ correlation
coefficients of SMOS and AMSR2 increased and all pixels’ RMSD decreased. Through our CDF-based revising
processes, we propose the way of mutual supplementation of MIRAS and AMSR2 soil moisture retrievals.