Regional and global land data assimilation systems: Innovations, challenges, and prospects

Y Xia, Z Hao, C Shi, Y Li, J Meng, T Xu, X Wu… - Journal of …, 2019 - Springer
Abstract Since the North American and Global Land Data Assimilation Systems (NLDAS and
GLDAS) were established in 2004, significant progress has been made in development of …

Advances in the quality of global soil moisture products: a review

Y Liu, Y Yang - Remote Sensing, 2022 - mdpi.com
Soil moisture is a crucial component of land–atmosphere interaction systems. It has a
decisive effect on evapotranspiration and photosynthesis, which then notably impacts the …

Generating surface soil moisture at 30 m spatial resolution using both data fusion and machine learning toward better water resources management at the field scale

AS Abowarda, L Bai, C Zhang, D Long, X Li… - Remote Sensing of …, 2021 - Elsevier
Soil moisture has a considerable impact on the hydrological cycle, runoff generation,
drought development, and water resources management. Soil moisture products provided …

Version 4 of the SMAP level‐4 soil moisture algorithm and data product

RH Reichle, Q Liu, RD Koster, WT Crow… - Journal of Advances …, 2019 - Wiley Online Library
Abstract The NASA Soil Moisture Active Passive (SMAP) mission Level‐4 Soil Moisture (L.
4_SM) product provides global, 3‐hourly, 9‐km resolution estimates of surface (0–5 cm) and …

Downscaling SMAP soil moisture estimation with gradient boosting decision tree regression over the Tibetan Plateau

Z Wei, Y Meng, W Zhang, J Peng, L Meng - Remote Sensing of …, 2019 - Elsevier
Abstract The Soil Moisture Active Passive (SMAP) satellite can no longer directly deliver
high-resolution (9 km) soil moisture products with the failure of the onboard L-band radar …

Soil respiration strongly offsets carbon uptake in Alaska and Northwest Canada

JD Watts, SM Natali, C Minions, D Risk… - Environmental …, 2021 - iopscience.iop.org
Soil respiration (ie from soils and roots) provides one of the largest global fluxes of carbon
dioxide (CO2) to the atmosphere and is likely to increase with warming, yet the magnitude of …

Synergetic use of Sentinel-1 and Sentinel-2 data for soil moisture mapping at plot scale

R Attarzadeh, J Amini, C Notarnicola, F Greifeneder - Remote Sensing, 2018 - mdpi.com
This paper presents an approach for retrieval of soil moisture content (SMC) by coupling
single polarization C-band synthetic aperture radar (SAR) and optical data at the plot scale …

Assessing SMAP soil moisture scaling and retrieval in the Carman (Canada) study site

HAKM Bhuiyan, H McNairn, J Powers… - Vadose Zone …, 2018 - Wiley Online Library
Core Ideas Upscaling methods compared in situ measures with soil moisture from the SMAP
satellite. The accuracy of SMAP soil moisture products in annual cropland was assessed …

Identifying relative strengths of SMAP, SMOS-IC, and ASCAT to capture temporal variability

R Zhang, S Kim, A Sharma, V Lakshmi - Remote Sensing of Environment, 2021 - Elsevier
This study evaluates the relative strengths of three remotely sensed soil moisture (SM)
products to capture temporal variability at a global scale, the products being the Soil …

The contributions of gauge-based precipitation and SMAP brightness temperature observations to the skill of the SMAP Level-4 soil moisture product

RH Reichle, Q Liu, JV Ardizzone… - Journal of …, 2021 - journals.ametsoc.org
Abstract Soil Moisture Active Passive (SMAP) mission L-band brightness temperature (Tb)
observations are routinely assimilated into the Catchment land surface model to generate …