Perspective on satellite-based land data assimilation to estimate water cycle components in an era of advanced data availability and model sophistication

GJM De Lannoy, M Bechtold, C Albergel, L Brocca… - Frontiers in …, 2022 - frontiersin.org
The beginning of the 21st century is marked by a rapid growth of land surface satellite data
and model sophistication. This offers new opportunities to estimate multiple components of …

[HTML][HTML] Regional data sets of high-resolution (1 and 6 km) irrigation estimates from space

J Dari, L Brocca, S Modanesi, C Massari… - Earth System …, 2023 - essd.copernicus.org
Irrigation water use represents the primary source of freshwater consumption by humans.
The amount of water withdrawals for agricultural purposes is expected to further increase in …

[HTML][HTML] A Digital Twin of the terrestrial water cycle: a glimpse into the future through high-resolution Earth observations

L Brocca, S Barbetta, S Camici, L Ciabatta, J Dari… - Frontiers in …, 2024 - frontiersin.org
Climate change is profoundly affecting the global water cycle, increasing the likelihood and
severity of extreme water-related events. Better decision-support systems are vital to …

Is It Possible to Quantify Irrigation Water‐Use by Assimilating a High‐Resolution Satellite Soil Moisture Product?

E Jalilvand, R Abolafia‐Rosenzweig… - Water Resources …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Irrigation is the largest human intervention in the water cycle that can modulate climate
extremes, yet irrigation water use (IWU) remains largely unknown in most regions …

[HTML][HTML] Why make inverse modeling and which methods to use in agriculture? A review

Y Zhang, L Pichon, S Roux, A Pellegrino… - … and Electronics in …, 2024 - Elsevier
Inverse modeling (IM) is a valuable tool in agriculture for estimating model parameters that
aid in decision-making. It is particularly useful when parameters cannot be directly …

Impact of SAR-based vegetation attributes on the SMAP high-resolution soil moisture product

G Singh, NN Das, A Colliander, D Entekhabi… - Remote Sensing of …, 2023 - Elsevier
Abstract NASA's Soil Moisture Active Passive (SMAP) mission employs L-band radiometer
observations with a spatial resolution of~ 33 km to produce global soil moisture products at …

Estimating irrigation water consumption using machine learning and remote sensing data in Kansas high plains

S Wei, T Xu, GY Niu, R Zeng - Remote Sensing, 2022 - mdpi.com
Groundwater-based irrigation has dramatically expanded over the past decades. It has
important implications for terrestrial water, energy fluxes, and food production, as well as …

[HTML][HTML] Estimating multi-scale irrigation amounts using multi-resolution soil moisture data: A data-driven approach using PrISM

G Paolini, MJ Escorihuela, O Merlin, P Laluet… - Agricultural Water …, 2023 - Elsevier
Irrigated agriculture is the primary driver of freshwater use and is continuously expanding.
Precise knowledge of irrigation amounts is critical for optimizing water management …

[HTML][HTML] Retrieving the irrigation actually applied at district scale: assimilating high-resolution Sentinel-1-derived soil moisture data into a FAO-56-based model

P Laluet, LE Olivera-Guerra, V Altés, G Paolini… - Agricultural Water …, 2024 - Elsevier
Irrigation is the most water consuming activity in the world. Knowing the timing and amount
of irrigation that is actually applied is therefore fundamental for water managers. However …

Modeling actual water use under different irrigation regimes at district scale: Application to the FAO-56 dual crop coefficient method

LE Olivera-Guerra, P Laluet, V Altés, C Ollivier… - Agricultural Water …, 2023 - Elsevier
The modeling of irrigation in land surface models are generally based on two soil moisture
parameters SM threshold and SM target at which irrigation automatically starts and stops …