Soil moisture retrieval from remote sensing measurements: Current knowledge and directions for the future

ZL Li, P Leng, C Zhou, KS Chen, FC Zhou… - Earth-Science …, 2021 - Elsevier
Soil moisture (SM) is an essential parameter for understanding the interactions and
feedbacks between the atmosphere and the Earth's surface through energy and water …

Estimation of soil moisture from optical and thermal remote sensing: A review

D Zhang, G Zhou - Sensors, 2016 - mdpi.com
As an important parameter in recent and numerous environmental studies, soil moisture
(SM) influences the exchange of water and energy at the interface between the land surface …

[HTML][HTML] Retrievals of soil moisture and vegetation optical depth using a multi-channel collaborative algorithm

T Zhao, J Shi, D Entekhabi, TJ Jackson, L Hu… - Remote Sensing of …, 2021 - Elsevier
Due to the success of the SMOS (Soil Moisture and Ocean Salinity) and SMAP (Soil
Moisture Active Passive) missions, new satellite missions are on the horizon. The current …

The SMOS soil moisture retrieval algorithm

YH Kerr, P Waldteufel, P Richaume… - IEEE transactions on …, 2012 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
The Soil Moisture and Ocean Salinity (SMOS) mission is European Space Agency (ESA's)
second Earth Explorer Opportunity mission, launched in November 2009. It is a joint …

Satellite remote sensing applications for surface soil moisture monitoring: A review

L Wang, JJ Qu - Frontiers of Earth Science in China, 2009 - Springer
Surface soil moisture is one of the crucial variables in hydrological processes, which
influences the exchange of water and energy fluxes at the land surface/atmosphere …

L-band Microwave Emission of the Biosphere (L-MEB) Model: Description and calibration against experimental data sets over crop fields

JP Wigneron, Y Kerr, P Waldteufel, K Saleh… - Remote Sensing of …, 2007 - Elsevier
In the near future, the SMOS (Soil Moisture and Ocean Salinity) mission will provide global
maps of surface soil moisture (SM). The SMOS baseline payload is an L-band (1.4 GHz) two …

[PDF][PDF] SMAP handbook–soil moisture active passive: Map** soil moisture and freeze/thaw from space

D Entekhabi, S Yueh, PE O'Neill, KH Kellogg, A Allen… - 2014 - lirias.kuleuven.be
Active Passive (SMAP) mission will provide global measurements of soil moisture and its
freeze/thaw state from a 685‑km, near‑polar, sun‑synchronous orbit for a period of 3 years …

Soil moisture map** from satellites: An intercomparison of SMAP, SMOS, FY3B, AMSR2, and ESA CCI over two dense network regions at different spatial scales

C Cui, J Xu, J Zeng, KS Chen, X Bai, H Lu, Q Chen… - Remote Sensing, 2017 - mdpi.com
A good knowledge of the quality of the satellite soil moisture products is of great importance
for their application and improvement. This paper examines the performance of eight …

A twenty-year dataset of soil moisture and vegetation optical depth from AMSR-E/2 measurements using the multi-channel collaborative algorithm

L Hu, T Zhao, W Ju, Z Peng, J Shi… - Remote Sensing of …, 2023 - Elsevier
Soil moisture (SM) and vegetation optical depth (VOD) are essential variables in the
terrestrial ecosystem. The multi-frequency radiometers AMSR-E and AMSR2 provide> 20 …

Combined Sentinel-1A with Sentinel-2A to estimate soil moisture in farmland

Y Liu, J Qian, H Yue - IEEE Journal of Selected Topics in …, 2020 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
In this article, seven filter algorithms were compared. The Lee sigma method was more
suitable for estimating soil moisture (SM) than the other filtering methods under different land …