The International Soil Moisture Network: serving Earth system science for over a decade

W Dorigo, I Himmelbauer, D Aberer… - Hydrology and Earth …, 2021 - hess.copernicus.org
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 …

Quantifying diurnal and seasonal variation of surface urban heat island intensity and its associated determinants across different climatic zones over Indian cities

P Mohammad, A Goswami - GIScience & Remote Sensing, 2021 - Taylor & Francis
Surface urban heat island (SUHI) is a major anthropogenic alteration of Earth's surface and
can influence the local thermal environment by altering the surface energy flux balances …

Investigating the urbanization process and its impact on vegetation change and urban heat island in Wuhan, China

X Gui, L Wang, R Yao, D Yu, C Li - Environmental Science and Pollution …, 2019 - Springer
Rapid urbanization significantly changes vegetation coverage and heat distribution, which
threatens the sustainable development and the quality of life. As the largest develo** city …

Satellite-derived land surface temperature dynamics in the context of global change—A review

P Reiners, J Sobrino, C Kuenzer - Remote Sensing, 2023 - mdpi.com
Satellite-derived Land Surface Temperature (LST) dynamics have been increasingly used to
study various geophysical processes. This review provides an extensive overview of the …

Investigating surface urban heat islands in South America based on MODIS data from 2003–2016

X Wu, G Wang, R Yao, L Wang, D Yu, X Gui - Remote Sensing, 2019 - mdpi.com
Surface urban heat islands (SUHIs) have been investigated in many regions around the
world, but little attention has been given with regard to SUHIs in South America. In this study …

Temporal and spatial comparison of agricultural drought indices from moderate resolution satellite soil moisture data over Northwest Spain

M Pablos, J Martínez-Fernández, N Sanchez… - Remote sensing, 2017 - mdpi.com
During the last decade, a variety of agricultural drought indices have been developed using
soil moisture (SM), or any of its surrogates, as the primary drought indicator. In this study, a …

A spatially consistent downscaling approach for SMOS using an adaptive moving window

G Portal, M Vall-Llossera, M Piles… - IEEE Journal of …, 2018 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
The European Space Agency (ESA)'s Soil Moisture and Ocean Salinity (SMOS) is the first
spaceborne mission using L-band radiometry to monitor the Earth's global surface soil …

The spatiotemporal response of soil moisture to precipitation and temperature changes in an arid region, China

Y Wang, J Yang, Y Chen, A Wang, P De Maeyer - Remote Sensing, 2018 - mdpi.com
Soil moisture plays a crucial role in the hydrological cycle and climate system. The reliable
estimation of soil moisture in space and time is important to monitor and even predict …

Towards near real-time national-scale soil water content monitoring using data fusion as a downscaling alternative

I Fuentes, J Padarian, RW Vervoort - Journal of Hydrology, 2022 - Elsevier
Soil water is a critical component of the water balance to make water management decisions
at multiple scales. While soil water can be sensed remotely, this is generally at coarse …

Impact of soil surface temperature on changes in the groundwater level

M Khamidov, J Ishchanov, A Hamidov, E Shermatov… - Water, 2023 - mdpi.com
The relationship between the soil surface temperature and groundwater level is complex
and influenced by various factors. As the soil surface temperature increases, water …