Soil moisture is a key variable of the climate system. It constrains plant transpiration and
photosynthesis in several regions of the world, with consequent impacts on the water …

Soil sensors and plant wearables play a critical role in smart and precision agriculture via
monitoring real‐time physical and chemical signals in the soil, such as temperature …

Approximately 1 billion ha of the global land surface is currently salt-affected, representing
about 7% of the earth's land surface. Whereas most of it results from natural geochemical …

Soil moisture (SM) is a key hydrologic state variable that is of significant importance for
numerous Earth and environmental science applications that directly impact the global …

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 …

Abstract The Prediction in Ungauged Basins (PUB) initiative of the International Association
of Hydrological Sciences (IAHS), launched in 2003 and concluded by the PUB Symposium …

Satellite remote sensing technology has been widely used to estimate surface soil moisture.
Numerous efforts have been devoted to develop global soil moisture products. However …

Soil moisture controls environmental processes and species distributions, but it is difficult to
measure and interpolate across space. Topographic Wetness Index (TWI) derived from …

In situ measurements of soil moisture are invaluable for calibrating and validating land
surface models and satellite-based soil moisture retrievals. In addition, long-term time series …

Understanding groundwater recharge is essential for successful management of water
resources and modeling fluid and contaminant transport within the subsurface. This book …