[HTML][HTML] Retrievals of soil moisture and vegetation optical depth using a multi-channel collaborative algorithm

T Zhao, J Shi, D Entekhabi, TJ Jackson, L Hu… - Remote Sensing of …, 2021 - Elsevier
Due to the success of the SMOS (Soil Moisture and Ocean Salinity) and SMAP (Soil
Moisture Active Passive) missions, new satellite missions are on the horizon. The current …

Global variations in ecosystem‐scale isohydricity

AG Konings, P Gentine - Global change biology, 2017 - Wiley Online Library
Droughts are expected to become more frequent and more intense under climate change.
Plant mortality rates and biomass declines in response to drought depend on stomatal and …

[HTML][HTML] L-band vegetation optical depth and effective scattering albedo estimation from SMAP

AG Konings, M Piles, N Das, D Entekhabi - Remote Sensing of …, 2017 - Elsevier
Over land the vegetation canopy affects the microwave brightness temperature by emission,
scattering and attenuation of surface soil emission. Attenuation, as represented by …

Vegetation optical depth and scattering albedo retrieval using time series of dual-polarized L-band radiometer observations

AG Konings, M Piles, K Rötzer, KA McColl… - Remote sensing of …, 2016 - Elsevier
Passive microwave measurements have the potential to estimate vegetation optical depth
(VOD), an indicator of aboveground vegetation water content. They are also sensitive to the …

Satellite-based vegetation optical depth as an indicator of drought-driven tree mortality

K Rao, WRL Anderegg, A Sala… - Remote Sensing of …, 2019 - Elsevier
Drought-induced tree mortality events are expected to increase in frequency under climate
change. However, monitoring and modeling of tree mortality is limited by the high spatial …

Interannual variations of vegetation optical depth are due to both water stress and biomass changes

AG Konings, NM Holtzman, K Rao, L Xu… - Geophysical …, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
Microwave radiometry can be used to measure vegetation water content through vegetation
optical depth (VOD). VOD can vary due to changes in water stress alone, but also scales …

Global ecosystem-scale plant hydraulic traits retrieved using model–data fusion

Y Liu, NM Holtzman, AG Konings - Hydrology and Earth System …, 2021 - hess.copernicus.org
Droughts are expected to become more frequent and severe under climate change,
increasing the need for accurate predictions of plant drought response. This response varies …

L-band vegetation optical depth seasonal metrics for crop yield assessment

D Chaparro, M Piles, M Vall-Llossera, A Camps… - Remote Sensing of …, 2018 - Elsevier
Attenuation of surface microwave emission due to the overlying vegetation is proportional to
the density of the canopy and to its water content. The vegetation optical depth (VOD) …

A deep neural network based SMAP soil moisture product

L Gao, Q Gao, H Zhang, X Li, MJ Chaubell… - Remote Sensing of …, 2022 - Elsevier
In this paper, it is demonstrated that while satellite soil moisture (SM) retrievals often have
minimum biases, reanalysis data can capture more temporal variability of SM, especially for …

Soil moisture retrieval over agricultural fields from L-band multi-incidence and multitemporal PolSAR observations using polarimetric decomposition techniques

H Shi, L Zhao, J Yang, JM Lopez-Sanchez… - Remote Sensing of …, 2021 - Elsevier
Surface soil moisture (SM) retrieval over agricultural areas from polarimetric synthetic
aperture radar (PolSAR) has long been restricted by vegetation attenuation, simplified …