Soils constitute one of the most critical natural resources and maintaining their health is vital
for agricultural development and ecological sustainability, providing many essential …

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 …

Caption: Table A. 11. 2. Synthesis table summarising assessments presented in Tables 11.4-
11.21 for hot extremes (HOT EXT.), heavy precipitation (HEAVY PRECIP.), agriculture and …

Soil moisture (SM) is a key hydrologic state variable that is of significant importance for
numerous Earth and environmental science applications that directly impact the global …

The European Space Agency's Climate Change Initiative for Soil Moisture (ESA CCI SM)
merging algorithm generates consistent quality-controlled long-term (1978–2018) climate …

Soil moisture observations are of broad scientific interest and practical value for a wide
range of applications. The scientific community has made significant progress in estimating …

Satellite based remote sensing offers one of the few approaches able to monitor the spatial
and temporal development of regional to continental scale droughts. A unique element of …

This paper presents a community effort to develop good practice guidelines for the validation
of global coarse-scale satellite soil moisture products. We provide theoretical background, a …

Satellite remote sensing technology has been widely used to estimate surface soil moisture.
Numerous efforts have been devoted to develop global soil moisture products. However …

Soil moisture is a key environmental variable, important to, eg, farmers, meteorologists, and
disaster management units. Here, we present a method to retrieve surface soil moisture …