Advances in soil moisture retrieval from synthetic aperture radar and hydrological applications

KC Kornelsen, P Coulibaly - Journal of Hydrology, 2013 - Elsevier
The sensitivity of Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR) to soil moisture is well established,
however, the retrieval of soil moisture from SAR is confounded by the effects of surface …

Four decades of microwave satellite soil moisture observations: Part 1. A review of retrieval algorithms

L Karthikeyan, M Pan, N Wanders, DN Kumar… - Advances in Water …, 2017 - Elsevier
The satellite based passive (radiometer) and active (radar) microwave sensors enhanced
our ability to retrieve soil moisture at global scales. It has been almost four decades since …

Potential of Sentinel-1 radar data for the assessment of soil and cereal cover parameters

S Bousbih, M Zribi, Z Lili-Chabaane, N Baghdadi… - Sensors, 2017 - mdpi.com
The main objective of this study is to analyze the potential use of Sentinel-1 (S1) radar data
for the estimation of soil characteristics (roughness and water content) and cereal vegetation …

Penetration analysis of SAR signals in the C and L bands for wheat, maize, and grasslands

M El Hajj, N Baghdadi, H Bazzi, M Zribi - Remote Sensing, 2018 - mdpi.com
This paper assesses the potential of Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR) in the C and L bands to
penetrate into the canopy cover of wheat, maize and grasslands. For wheat and grasslands …

First assessment of Sentinel-1A data for surface soil moisture estimations using a coupled water cloud model and advanced integral equation model over the Tibetan …

X Bai, B He, X Li, J Zeng, X Wang, Z Wang, Y Zeng… - Remote sensing, 2017 - mdpi.com
The spatiotemporal distribution of soil moisture over the Tibetan Plateau is important for
understanding the regional water cycle and climate change. In this paper, the surface soil …

Analysis of TerraSAR-X data sensitivity to bare soil moisture, roughness, composition and soil crust

M Aubert, N Baghdadi, M Zribi, A Douaoui… - Remote Sensing of …, 2011 - Elsevier
Soils play a key role in sha** the environment and in risk assessment. We characterized
the soils of bare agricultural plots using TerraSAR-X (9.5 GHz) data acquired in 2009 and …

Soil moisture retrieval using SAR backscattering ratio method during the crop growing season

M **ng, L Chen, J Wang, J Shang, X Huang - Remote Sensing, 2022 - mdpi.com
Soil moisture content (SMC) is an indispensable basic element for crop growth and
development in agricultural production. Obtaining accurate information on SMC in real time …

Retrieval of both soil moisture and texture using TerraSAR-X images

A Gorrab, M Zribi, N Baghdadi, B Mougenot, P Fanise… - Remote Sensing, 2015 - mdpi.com
The aim of this paper is to propose a methodology combing multi-temporal X-band SAR
images (TerraSAR-X) with continuous ground thetaprobe measurements, for the retrieval of …

Surface soil moisture retrieval on Qinghai-Tibetan plateau using sentinel-1 synthetic aperture radar data and machine learning algorithms

L Dong, W Wang, R **, F Xu, Y Zhang - Remote Sensing, 2022 - mdpi.com
Soil moisture is a key factor in the water and heat exchange and energy transformation of
the ecological systems and is of critical importance to the accurate obtainment of the soil …

Microwave-based vegetation descriptors in the parameterization of water cloud model at L-band for soil moisture retrieval over croplands

Z Wang, T Zhao, J Qiu, X Zhao, R Li… - GIScience & Remote …, 2021 - Taylor & Francis
Synthetic aperture radar (SAR) data have significant potential for soil moisture monitoring
because of their high spatial resolution and independence from cloud coverage. However, it …