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 …

Remote sensing of soil moisture has reached a level of good maturity and accuracy for
which the retrieved products are ready to use in real-world applications. Due to the …

Long-term gridded precipitation products are crucial for several applications in hydrology,
agriculture and climate sciences. Currently available precipitation products suffer from space …

Soil moisture is widely recognized as a key parameter in the mass and energy balance
between the land surface and the atmosphere and, hence, the potential societal benefits of …

Irrigated agriculture is the principal consumer of fresh water resources. Most countries do not
have a precise measurement of water consumption for irrigation. In this study, an innovative …

To promote the advancement of novel observation techniques that may lead to new sources
of information to help better understand the hydrological cycle, the International Association …

Abstract Knowledge of irrigation is essential for ensuring food and water security, and to
cope with the scarcity of water resources, which is expected to exacerbate under the …

Irrigation water use represents the primary source of freshwater consumption by humans.
The amount of water withdrawals for agricultural purposes is expected to further increase in …

Despite irrigation being one of the main sources of anthropogenic water consumption,
detailed information about water amounts destined for this purpose are often lacking …

Accurate and long-term rainfall estimates are the main inputs for several applications, from
crop modeling to climate analysis. In this study, we present a new rainfall data set (SM2RAIN …