Deep learning in environmental remote sensing: Achievements and challenges

Q Yuan, H Shen, T Li, Z Li, S Li, Y Jiang, H Xu… - Remote sensing of …, 2020 - Elsevier
Various forms of machine learning (ML) methods have historically played a valuable role in
environmental remote sensing research. With an increasing amount of “big data” from earth …

The International Soil Moisture Network: serving Earth system science for over a decade

W Dorigo, I Himmelbauer, D Aberer… - Hydrology and Earth …, 2021 - hess.copernicus.org
In 2009, the International Soil Moisture Network (ISMN) was initiated as a community effort,
funded by the European Space Agency, to serve as a centralised data hosting facility for …

Global land surface evapotranspiration monitoring by ETMonitor model driven by multi-source satellite earth observations

C Zheng, L Jia, G Hu - Journal of Hydrology, 2022 - Elsevier
Evapotranspiration (ET) is an essential ecohydrological process linking the land surface
energy, water and carbon cycles, and plays a critical role in the earth system. ET remains …

A 21-year dataset (2000–2020) of gap-free global daily surface soil moisture at 1-km grid resolution

C Zheng, L Jia, T Zhao - Scientific Data, 2023 - nature.com
Global soil moisture estimates from current satellite missions are suffering from inherent
discontinuous observations and coarse spatial resolution, which limit applications especially …

[HTML][HTML] A global spatially contiguous solar-induced fluorescence (CSIF) dataset using neural networks

Y Zhang, J Joiner, SH Alemohammad, S Zhou… - …, 2018 - bg.copernicus.org
Satellite-retrieved solar-induced chlorophyll fluorescence (SIF) has shown great potential to
monitor the photosynthetic activity of terrestrial ecosystems. However, several issues …

Downscaling SMAP radiometer soil moisture over the CONUS using an ensemble learning method

P Abbaszadeh, H Moradkhani… - Water Resources …, 2019 - Wiley Online Library
Soil moisture plays a critical role in improving the weather and climate forecast and
understanding terrestrial ecosystem processes. It is a key hydrologic variable in agricultural …

A multiscale deep learning model for soil moisture integrating satellite and in situ data

J Liu, F Rahmani, K Lawson… - Geophysical Research …, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
Deep learning (DL) models trained on hydrologic observations can perform extraordinarily
well, but they can inherit deficiencies of the training data, such as limited coverage of in situ …

[HTML][HTML] Development of the global dataset of wetland area and dynamics for methane modeling (WAD2M)

Z Zhang, E Fluet-Chouinard, K Jensen… - Earth System …, 2021 - essd.copernicus.org
Seasonal and interannual variations in global wetland area are a strong driver of
fluctuations in global methane (CH 4) emissions. Current maps of global wetland extent vary …

Seamless downscaling of the ESA CCI soil moisture data at the daily scale with MODIS land products

W Zhao, F Wen, Q Wang, N Sanchez, M Piles - Journal of Hydrology, 2021 - Elsevier
Spatial downscaling has recently become a crucial process in the regional application of
coarse-resolution passive microwave surface soil moisture (SSM) products. Extensive gaps …

[HTML][HTML] How accurately can we retrieve irrigation timing and water amounts from (satellite) soil moisture?

L Zappa, S Schlaffer, L Brocca, M Vreugdenhil… - International Journal of …, 2022 - Elsevier
While ensuring food security worldwide, irrigation is altering the water cycle and generating
numerous environmental side effects. As detailed knowledge about the timing and the …