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 …

SMOS-IC data record of soil moisture and L-VOD: Historical development, applications and perspectives

JP Wigneron, X Li, F Frappart, L Fan, A Al-Yaari… - Remote Sensing of …, 2021 - Elsevier
Passive microwave remote sensing observations at L-band provide key and global
information on surface soil moisture and vegetation water content, which are related to the …

[HTML][HTML] ERA5-Land: A state-of-the-art global reanalysis dataset for land applications

J Muñoz-Sabater, E Dutra… - … system science data, 2021 - essd.copernicus.org
Abstract Framed within the Copernicus Climate Change Service (C3S) of the European
Commission, the European Centre for Medium-Range Weather Forecasts (ECMWF) is …

Evolution of the ESA CCI Soil Moisture climate data records and their underlying merging methodology

A Gruber, T Scanlon, R van der Schalie… - Earth System …, 2019 - essd.copernicus.org
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 …

Machine learning information fusion in Earth observation: A comprehensive review of methods, applications and data sources

S Salcedo-Sanz, P Ghamisi, M Piles, M Werner… - Information …, 2020 - Elsevier
This paper reviews the most important information fusion data-driven algorithms based on
Machine Learning (ML) techniques for problems in Earth observation. Nowadays we …

[HTML][HTML] Evaluation of 18 satellite-and model-based soil moisture products using in situ measurements from 826 sensors

HE Beck, M Pan, DG Miralles… - Hydrology and Earth …, 2021 - hess.copernicus.org
Abstract Information about the spatiotemporal variability of soil moisture is critical for many
purposes, including monitoring of hydrologic extremes, irrigation scheduling, and prediction …

Triple collocation-based merging of satellite soil moisture retrievals

A Gruber, WA Dorigo, W Crow… - IEEE Transactions on …, 2017 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
We propose a method for merging soil moisture retrievals from spaceborne active and
passive microwave instruments based on weighted averaging taking into account the error …

A new SMAP soil moisture and vegetation optical depth product (SMAP-IB): Algorithm, assessment and inter-comparison

X Li, JP Wigneron, L Fan, F Frappart, SH Yueh… - Remote Sensing of …, 2022 - Elsevier
Passive microwave remote sensing at L-band (1.4 GHz) provides an unprecedented
opportunity to estimate global surface soil moisture (SM) and vegetation water content (via …

Overview of SMOS performance in terms of global soil moisture monitoring after six years in operation

YH Kerr, A Al-Yaari, N Rodriguez-Fernandez… - Remote Sensing of …, 2016 - Elsevier
Abstract The Soil Moisture and Ocean Salinity satellite (SMOS) was launched in November
2009 and started delivering data in January 2010. The commissioning phase ended in May …

Map** tree canopy cover and aboveground biomass in Sudano-Sahelian woodlands using Landsat 8 and random forest

M Karlson, M Ostwald, H Reese, J Sanou, B Tankoano… - Remote Sensing, 2015 - mdpi.com
Accurate and timely maps of tree cover attributes are important tools for environmental
research and natural resource management. We evaluate the utility of Landsat 8 for …