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 …

The soil moisture data bank: The ground-based, model-based, and satellite-based soil moisture data

A Tavakol, KR McDonough, V Rahmani… - Remote Sensing …, 2021 - Elsevier
Soil moisture is a critical component of the climate system due to the link it provides between
atmospheric and terrestrial energy, water, and carbon cycles. A better understanding of …

Evaluation of soil moisture climatology and anomaly components derived from ERA5-land and GLDAS-2.1 in China

Z Wu, H Feng, H He, J Zhou, Y Zhang - Water Resources Management, 2021 - Springer
Soil moisture (SM) is critical for various hydro-meteorological applications. Land surface
models (LSMs) can produce global spatio-temporal continuous SM estimates. Recently …

Global scale error assessments of soil moisture estimates from microwave-based active and passive satellites and land surface models over forest and mixed irrigated …

H Kim, JP Wigneron, S Kumar, J Dong… - Remote Sensing of …, 2020 - Elsevier
Over the past four decades, satellite systems and land surface models have been used to
estimate global-scale surface soil moisture (SSM). However, in areas such as densely …

Global-scale assessment and combination of SMAP with ASCAT (active) and AMSR2 (passive) soil moisture products

H Kim, R Parinussa, AG Konings, W Wagner… - Remote Sensing of …, 2018 - Elsevier
Global-scale surface soil moisture (SSM) products retrieved from active and passive
microwave remote sensing provide an effective method for monitoring near-real-time SSM …

[HTML][HTML] Grassland soil moisture fluctuation and its relationship with evapotranspiration

Y Wang, Y Zhang, X Yu, G Jia, Z Liu, L Sun, P Zheng… - Ecological …, 2021 - Elsevier
Soil moisture is connected to atmospheric moisture through direct evaporation and
vegetation transpiration. This is a complex process that is in focus of numerous hydrological …

A Bayesian machine learning method to explain the error characteristics of global-scale soil moisture products

H Kim, WT Crow, W Wagner, X Li, V Lakshmi - Remote Sensing of …, 2023 - Elsevier
Estimating accurate surface soil moisture (SM) dynamics from space, and knowing the error
characteristics of these estimates, is of great importance for the application of satellite-based …

Reconstruction of ESA CCI satellite-derived soil moisture using an artificial neural network technology

L Zhang, Y Liu, L Ren, AJ Teuling, X Zhang… - Science of the Total …, 2021 - Elsevier
Soil moisture (SM) is a vital variable for controlling water and heat exchange between the
atmosphere and land surface. Spatiotemporally continuous satellite-derived SM information …

Sensing area‐average snow water equivalent with cosmic‐ray neutrons: The influence of fractional snow cover

P Schattan, M Köhli, M Schrön… - Water Resources …, 2019 - Wiley Online Library
Cosmic‐ray neutron sensing (CRNS) is a promising non‐invasive technique to estimate
snow water equivalent (SWE) over large areas. In contrast to preliminary studies focusing on …

Satellite soil moisture for agricultural drought monitoring: Assessment of SMAP-derived soil water deficit index in **ang River Basin, China

Q Zhu, Y Luo, YP Xu, Y Tian, T Yang - Remote Sensing, 2019 - mdpi.com
Agricultural drought can have long-lasting and harmful impacts on both the ecosystem and
economy. Therefore, it is important to monitor and predict agricultural drought accurately …