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 …

Land surface emissivity retrieval from satellite data

ZL Li, H Wu, N Wang, S Qiu, JA Sobrino… - … Journal of Remote …, 2013 - Taylor & Francis
As an intrinsic property of natural materials, land surface emissivity (LSE) is an important
surface parameter and can be derived from the emitted radiance measured from space …

Synergic use of Sentinel-1 and Sentinel-2 images for operational soil moisture map** at high spatial resolution over agricultural areas

M El Hajj, N Baghdadi, M Zribi, H Bazzi - Remote Sensing, 2017 - mdpi.com
Soil moisture map** at a high spatial resolution is very important for several applications
in hydrology, agriculture and risk assessment. With the arrival of the free Sentinel data at …

Soil moisture experiment in the Luan River supporting new satellite mission opportunities

T Zhao, J Shi, L Lv, H Xu, D Chen, Q Cui… - Remote Sensing of …, 2020 - Elsevier
Abstract The Soil Moisture Experiment in the Luan River (SMELR) was conducted from 2017
to 2018 in the semi-arid Luan River watershed located in the North of China. One of the …

L-band Microwave Emission of the Biosphere (L-MEB) Model: Description and calibration against experimental data sets over crop fields

JP Wigneron, Y Kerr, P Waldteufel, K Saleh… - Remote Sensing of …, 2007 - Elsevier
In the near future, the SMOS (Soil Moisture and Ocean Salinity) mission will provide global
maps of surface soil moisture (SM). The SMOS baseline payload is an L-band (1.4 GHz) two …

Estimation of soil moisture from optical and thermal remote sensing: A review

D Zhang, G Zhou - Sensors, 2016 - mdpi.com
As an important parameter in recent and numerous environmental studies, soil moisture
(SM) influences the exchange of water and energy at the interface between the land surface …

Satellite remote sensing applications for surface soil moisture monitoring: A review

L Wang, JJ Qu - Frontiers of Earth Science in China, 2009 - Springer
Surface soil moisture is one of the crucial variables in hydrological processes, which
influences the exchange of water and energy fluxes at the land surface/atmosphere …

Advances in soil moisture retrieval from synthetic aperture radar and hydrological applications

KC Kornelsen, P Coulibaly - Journal of Hydrology, 2013 - Elsevier
The sensitivity of Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR) to soil moisture is well established,
however, the retrieval of soil moisture from SAR is confounded by the effects of surface …

Measurements and observations in the XXI century (MOXXI): Innovation and multi-disciplinarity to sense the hydrological cycle

F Tauro, J Selker, N Van De Giesen… - Hydrological sciences …, 2018 - Taylor & Francis
To promote the advancement of novel observation techniques that may lead to new sources
of information to help better understand the hydrological cycle, the International Association …

Global monitoring of snow water equivalent using high frequency radar remote sensing

L Tsang, M Durand, C Derksen, AP Barros… - The Cryosphere …, 2021 - tc.copernicus.org
Seasonal snow cover is the largest single component of the cryosphere in areal extent,
covering an average of 46 million square km of Earth's surface (31% of the land area) each …