[HTML][HTML] A roadmap for high-resolution satellite soil moisture applications–confronting product characteristics with user requirements

J Peng, C Albergel, A Balenzano, L Brocca… - Remote Sensing of …, 2021 - Elsevier
Soil moisture observations are of broad scientific interest and practical value for a wide
range of applications. The scientific community has made significant progress in estimating …

Ground, proximal, and satellite remote sensing of soil moisture

E Babaeian, M Sadeghi, SB Jones… - Reviews of …, 2019 - Wiley Online Library
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 …

Evolution of the ESA CCI Soil Moisture climate data records and their underlying merging methodology

A Gruber, T Scanlon, R van der Schalie… - Earth System …, 2019 - essd.copernicus.org
The European Space Agency's Climate Change Initiative for Soil Moisture (ESA CCI SM)
merging algorithm generates consistent quality-controlled long-term (1978–2018) climate …

ESA CCI Soil Moisture for improved Earth system understanding: State-of-the art and future directions

W Dorigo, W Wagner, C Albergel, F Albrecht… - Remote Sensing of …, 2017 - Elsevier
Abstract Climate Data Records of soil moisture are fundamental for improving our
understanding of long-term dynamics in the coupled water, energy, and carbon cycles over …

[HTML][HTML] Validation practices for satellite soil moisture retrievals: What are (the) errors?

A Gruber, G De Lannoy, C Albergel, A Al-Yaari… - Remote sensing of …, 2020 - Elsevier
This paper presents a community effort to develop good practice guidelines for the validation
of global coarse-scale satellite soil moisture products. We provide theoretical background, a …

Validation of SMAP surface soil moisture products with core validation sites

A Colliander, TJ Jackson, R Bindlish, S Chan… - Remote sensing of …, 2017 - Elsevier
Abstract The NASA Soil Moisture Active Passive (SMAP) mission has utilized a set of core
validation sites as the primary methodology in assessing the soil moisture retrieval algorithm …

[HTML][HTML] Evaluation of 18 satellite-and model-based soil moisture products using in situ measurements from 826 sensors

HE Beck, M Pan, DG Miralles… - Hydrology and Earth …, 2021 - hess.copernicus.org
Abstract Information about the spatiotemporal variability of soil moisture is critical for many
purposes, including monitoring of hydrologic extremes, irrigation scheduling, and prediction …

Sensitivity of Sentinel-1 backscatter to vegetation dynamics: An Austrian case study

M Vreugdenhil, W Wagner, B Bauer-Marschallinger… - Remote Sensing, 2018 - mdpi.com
Crop monitoring is of great importance for eg, yield prediction and increasing water use
efficiency. The Copernicus Sentinel-1 mission operated by the European Space Agency …

Toward global soil moisture monitoring with Sentinel-1: Harnessing assets and overcoming obstacles

B Bauer-Marschallinger, V Freeman… - … on Geoscience and …, 2018 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Soil moisture is a key environmental variable, important to, eg, farmers, meteorologists, and
disaster management units. Here, we present a method to retrieve surface soil moisture …

Soil moisture retrieval from remote sensing measurements: Current knowledge and directions for the future

ZL Li, P Leng, C Zhou, KS Chen, FC Zhou… - Earth-Science …, 2021 - Elsevier
Soil moisture (SM) is an essential parameter for understanding the interactions and
feedbacks between the atmosphere and the Earth's surface through energy and water …