The importance of snow cover extent (SCE) has been proven to strongly link with various
natural phenomenon and human activities; consequently, monitoring snow cover is one the …

The present article is an introductory paper in this special issue on synthetic aperture radar
(SAR). A short review is presented on the recent trend and development of SAR and related …

Vegetation cover significantly influences the hydrometeorological processes of land
surfaces. The heterogeneity of vegetation cover makes these processes more complex and …

Soil salinization is one of the most important causes of land degradation and desertification,
especially in arid and semi-arid areas. The dynamic monitoring of soil salinization is of great …

The satellite based passive (radiometer) and active (radar) microwave sensors enhanced
our ability to retrieve soil moisture at global scales. It has been almost four decades since …

Radar data have been used to retrieve and monitor the surface soil moisture (SM) changes
in various conditions. However, the calibration of radar models whether empirically or …

The novel modification in the WCM (mWCM) is proposed in this study to simulate total
backscattering contribution and to improve Leaf Area Index (LAI) and Soil Moisture (SM) …

The main objective of this study is to analyze the potential use of Sentinel-1 (S1) radar data
for the estimation of soil characteristics (roughness and water content) and cereal vegetation …

Radar data at C-band has shown great potential for the monitoring of soil and canopy hydric
conditions of wheat crops. In this study, the C-band Sentinel-1 time series including the …

Synthetic Aperture Radar has shown its large potential for retrieving soil moisture maps at
regional scales. However, since the backscattered signal is determined by several surface …