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 …

A new method for estimating of evapotranspiration and surface soil moisture from optical and thermal infrared measurements: The simplified triangle

TN Carlson, GP Petropoulos - International Journal of Remote …, 2019 - Taylor & Francis
Earth Observation (EO) provides a promising approach towards deriving accurate
spatiotemporal estimates of key parameters characterizing land surface interactions, such as …

[PDF][PDF] Soil moisture product validation good practices protocol

C Montzka, M Cosh, J Nickeson, F Camacho, B Bayat… - 2021 - ntrs.nasa.gov
The role of soil moisture in the water, energy and carbon cycle of the Earth cannot be
understated. Soil moisture has a major impact on agriculture, land surface hydrology …

A pixel-wise calculation of soil evaporative efficiency with thermal/optical remote sensing and meteorological reanalysis data for downscaling microwave soil moisture

H Sun, J Gao - Agricultural Water Management, 2023 - Elsevier
Soil evaporative efficiency (SEE) was estimated as the relative difference of soil temperature
(T s) to its maximum (T s max) and minimum (T s min) values at 'minimum and maximum'soil …

A First Exploration of the Ts/VI “Analytical Triangle” Technique with UAV Imagery for Deriving Key Surface Energy Balance Parameters at Very High Spatial Resolution

GP Petropoulos, SE Detsikas, K Kalogeropoulos… - Drones, 2024 - mdpi.com
Knowledge on the spatiotemporal patterns of surface energy balance parameters is crucial
for understanding climate system processes. To this end, the assimilation of Earth …

Extending our understanding on the retrievals of surface energy fluxes and surface soil moisture from the “triangle” technique

GP Petropoulos - Environmental Modelling & Software, 2024 - Elsevier
The present study demonstrates the capability of an inversion modelling scheme so-called
the “triangle” to retrieve spatiotemporal estimates of surface energy fluxes and soil surface …

Coupling remote sensing with a water balance model for soybean yield predictions over large areas

DF Silva Fuzzo, TN Carlson, NN Kourgialas… - Earth Science …, 2020 - Springer
In this study a new method for predicting soybean yield over large spatial scales,
overcoming the difficulties of scalability, is proposed. The method is based on the so-called …

Optical remote sensing indexes of soil moisture: Evaluation and improvement based on aircraft experiment observations

H Sun, H Liu, Y Ma, Q **a - Remote Sensing, 2021 - mdpi.com
Optical remote sensing (about 0.4~ 2.0 μm) indexes of soil moisture (SM) are valuable for
some specific applications such as monitoring agricultural drought and downscaling …

Appraisal of SMAP operational soil moisture product from a global perspective

S Suman, PK Srivastava, GP Petropoulos, DK Pandey… - Remote Sensing, 2020 - mdpi.com
Space-borne soil moisture (SM) satellite products such as those available from Soil Moisture
Active Passive (SMAP) offer unique opportunities for global and frequent monitoring of SM …

Improving surface soil moisture estimation through assimilating satellite Land Surface Temperature with a linear SM-LST relationship

J Tian, H Lu, K Yang, J Qin, L Zhao… - IEEE Journal of …, 2023 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Soil moisture (SM) plays a vital role in linking the global terrestrial water, energy, and carbon
cycles. Land data assimilation (DA) is typically applied for acquiring more accurate SM …