Droughts in a warming climate have become more common and more extreme, making
understanding forest responses to water stress increasingly pressing. Analysis of water …

This paper reviews the different remote sensing techniques found in the literature to monitor
plant water status, allowing farmers to control the irrigation management and to avoid …

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 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 …

Vegetation optical depth (VOD) is seasonally sensitive to plant water content and
aboveground biomass. This index has a strong penetrability within the vegetation canopy …

Active microwave measurements have the potential to estimate vegetation optical depth
(VOD), an indicator related to vegetation water content and biomass. The Advanced …

Passive microwave remote sensing of soil moisture is an underdetermined problem, as
observed microwave emission from the landscape is affected by a variety of unknown …

The frequency and intensity of global drought events are continuously increasing, posing an
elevated risk of forest mortality worldwide. Accurately understanding the impact of drought …

Vegetation optical depth (VOD), as a microwave-based vegetation index for vegetation
water and biomass content, is increasingly used to study the impact of global climate and …

Wildfire activity and the hydrological cycle are strongly interlinked. While it is well known that
wildfire occurrence and intensity are controlled by water availability, less is known about the …