Surface soil moisture retrievals from remote sensing: Current status, products & future trends

GP Petropoulos, G Ireland, B Barrett - Physics and Chemistry of the Earth …, 2015 - Elsevier
Abstract Advances in Earth Observation (EO) technology, particularly over the last two
decades, have shown that soil moisture content (SMC) can be measured to some degree or …

Advances in soil moisture retrieval from synthetic aperture radar and hydrological applications

KC Kornelsen, P Coulibaly - Journal of Hydrology, 2013 - Elsevier
The sensitivity of Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR) to soil moisture is well established,
however, the retrieval of soil moisture from SAR is confounded by the effects of surface …

Deep learning and data fusion to estimate surface soil moisture from multi-sensor satellite images

A Singh, K Gaurav - Scientific Reports, 2023 - nature.com
We propose a new architecture based on a fully connected feed-forward Artificial Neural
Network (ANN) model to estimate surface soil moisture from satellite images on a large …

Four decades of microwave satellite soil moisture observations: Part 1. A review of retrieval algorithms

L Karthikeyan, M Pan, N Wanders, DN Kumar… - Advances in Water …, 2017 - Elsevier
The satellite based passive (radiometer) and active (radar) microwave sensors enhanced
our ability to retrieve soil moisture at global scales. It has been almost four decades since …

Retrieving surface soil moisture at high spatio-temporal resolution from a synergy between Sentinel-1 radar and Landsat thermal data: A study case over bare soil

A Amazirh, O Merlin, S Er-Raki, Q Gao… - Remote sensing of …, 2018 - Elsevier
Radar data have been used to retrieve and monitor the surface soil moisture (SM) changes
in various conditions. However, the calibration of radar models whether empirically or …

On the soil roughness parameterization problem in soil moisture retrieval of bare surfaces from synthetic aperture radar

NEC Verhoest, H Lievens, W Wagner, J Álvarez-Mozos… - Sensors, 2008 - mdpi.com
Synthetic Aperture Radar has shown its large potential for retrieving soil moisture maps at
regional scales. However, since the backscattered signal is determined by several surface …

Soil moisture retrieval from active spaceborne microwave observations: An evaluation of current techniques

BW Barrett, E Dwyer, P Whelan - Remote Sensing, 2009 - mdpi.com
The importance of land surface-atmosphere interactions, principally the effects of soil
moisture, on hydrological, meteorological, and ecological processes has gained widespread …

Evaluation of backscattering models and support vector machine for the retrieval of bare soil moisture from Sentinel-1 data

J Ezzahar, N Ouaadi, M Zribi, J Elfarkh, G Aouade… - Remote Sensing, 2019 - mdpi.com
The main objective of this work was to retrieve surface soil moisture (SSM) by using
scattering models and a support vector machine (SVM) technique driven by backscattering …

A new empirical model for radar scattering from bare soil surfaces

N Baghdadi, M Choker, M Zribi, ME Hajj, S Paloscia… - Remote Sensing, 2016 - mdpi.com
The objective of this paper is to propose a new semi-empirical radar backscattering model
for bare soil surfaces based on the Dubois model. A wide dataset of backscattering …

Using ENVISAT ASAR global mode data for surface soil moisture retrieval over Oklahoma, USA

C Pathe, W Wagner, D Sabel… - … on Geoscience and …, 2009 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
The Advanced Synthetic Aperture Radar (ASAR) onboard of the satellite ENVISAT can be
operated in global monitoring (GM) mode. ASAR GM mode has delivered the first global …