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 …

Global monitoring of the vegetation dynamics from the Vegetation Optical Depth (VOD): A review

F Frappart, JP Wigneron, X Li, X Liu, A Al-Yaari, L Fan… - Remote Sensing, 2020 - mdpi.com
Vegetation is a key element in the energy, water and carbon balances over the land
surfaces and is strongly impacted by climate change and anthropogenic effects. Remotely …

Summer soil drying exacerbated by earlier spring greening of northern vegetation

X Lian, S Piao, LZX Li, Y Li, C Huntingford, P Ciais… - Science …, 2020 - science.org
Earlier vegetation greening under climate change raises evapotranspiration and thus lowers
spring soil moisture, yet the extent and magnitude of this water deficit persistence into the …

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 …

The global long-term microwave vegetation optical depth climate archive (VODCA)

L Moesinger, W Dorigo, R De Jeu… - Earth System …, 2020 - essd.copernicus.org
Since the late 1970s, space-borne microwave radiometers have been providing
measurements of radiation emitted by the Earth's surface. From these measurements it is …

Recent divergence in the contributions of tropical and boreal forests to the terrestrial carbon sink

T Tagesson, G Schurgers, S Horion, P Ciais… - Nature Ecology & …, 2020 - nature.com
Anthropogenic land use and land cover changes (LULCC) have a large impact on the global
terrestrial carbon sink, but this effect is not well characterized according to biogeographical …

Global-scale assessment and inter-comparison of recently developed/reprocessed microwave satellite vegetation optical depth products

X Li, JP Wigneron, F Frappart, L Fan, P Ciais… - Remote Sensing of …, 2021 - Elsevier
The vegetation optical depth (VOD), a vegetation index retrieved from passive or active
microwave remote sensing systems, is related to the intensity of microwave extinction effects …

Satellite-observed pantropical carbon dynamics

L Fan, JP Wigneron, P Ciais, J Chave, M Brandt… - Nature plants, 2019 - nature.com
Abstract Changes in terrestrial tropical carbon stocks have an important role in the global
carbon budget. However, current observational tools do not allow accurate and large-scale …

The first global soil moisture and vegetation optical depth product retrieved from fused SMOS and SMAP L-band observations

X Li, JP Wigneron, F Frappart, G De Lannoy… - Remote Sensing of …, 2022 - Elsevier
Abstract ESA's Soil Moisture Ocean Salinity (SMOS, since 2009) and NASA's Soil Moisture
Active Passive (SMAP, since 2015) are the only two space-borne L-band radiometer …

Using satellite-based terrestrial water storage data: a review

V Humphrey, M Rodell, A Eicker - Surveys in Geophysics, 2023 - Springer
Land water storage plays a key role for the Earth's climate, natural ecosystems, and human
activities. Since the launch of the first Gravity Recovery and Climate Experiment (GRACE) …