Remote sensing for drought monitoring & impact assessment: Progress, past challenges and future opportunities

H West, N Quinn, M Horswell - Remote Sensing of Environment, 2019 - Elsevier
Drought is a common hydrometeorological phenomenon and a pervasive global hazard. As
our climate changes, it is likely that drought events will become more intense and frequent …

A review of spatial downscaling of satellite remotely sensed soil moisture

J Peng, A Loew, O Merlin… - Reviews of …, 2017 - Wiley Online Library
Satellite remote sensing technology has been widely used to estimate surface soil moisture.
Numerous efforts have been devoted to develop global soil moisture products. However …

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 …

The SMAP and Copernicus Sentinel 1A/B microwave active-passive high resolution surface soil moisture product

NN Das, D Entekhabi, RS Dunbar, MJ Chaubell… - Remote Sensing of …, 2019 - Elsevier
Abstract Soil Moisture Active Passive (SMAP) mission of NASA was launched in January
2015. Currently, SMAP has an L-band radiometer and a defunct L-band radar with a rotating …

Multi-layer high-resolution soil moisture estimation using machine learning over the United States

L Karthikeyan, AK Mishra - Remote Sensing of Environment, 2021 - Elsevier
The lack of proper understanding of multi-layer soil moisture (SM) profile (signals) remains a
persistent challenge in sustainable agricultural water management and food security …

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 …

Radar remote sensing of agricultural canopies: A review

SC Steele-Dunne, H McNairn… - IEEE Journal of …, 2017 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Observations from spaceborne radar contain considerable information about vegetation
dynamics. The ability to extract this information could lead to improved soil moisture …

Sentinel-1 soil moisture at 1 km resolution: a validation study

A Balenzano, F Mattia, G Satalino, FP Lovergine… - Remote Sensing of …, 2021 - Elsevier
This study presents an assessment of a pre-operational soil moisture product at 1 km
resolution derived from satellite data acquired by the European Radar Observatory Sentinel …

Spatially enhanced passive microwave derived soil moisture: Capabilities and opportunities

S Sabaghy, JP Walker, LJ Renzullo… - Remote Sensing of …, 2018 - Elsevier
Low frequency passive microwave remote sensing is a proven technology for providing soil
moisture estimates, but the coarse resolution of its data restricts the range of applications …

Inter-comparison and integration of different soil moisture downscaling methods over the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau

Y Shangguan, X Min, Z Shi - Journal of Hydrology, 2023 - Elsevier
Soil moisture (SM) is a key state variable in the water, energy cycle between atmosphere
and land surface but existing passive microwave soil moisture products typically have …