In 2009, the International Soil Moisture Network (ISMN) was initiated as a community effort,
funded by the European Space Agency, to serve as a centralised data hosting facility for …

The roles of quantitative remote sensing products in scientific research and quantitative
applications lie in their ability to record the real states of earth surface features. Therefore, it …

Abstract Climate Data Records of soil moisture are fundamental for improving our
understanding of long-term dynamics in the coupled water, energy, and carbon cycles over …

Drylands are particularly sensitive to climate change, and soil water availability is critical for
dryland ecosystems. Climate change and large-scale ecological restoration have led to …

Drought monitoring and assessment are of great importance due to the costly damage
caused by drought. Datasets, drought indexes and drought relationships are three critical …

Tremendous efforts have been made for obtaining surface soil moisture (SM) at high spatial
resolutions from microwave-based products via spatial downscaling. In recent years …

In 2017, the dominant greenhouse gases released into Earth's atmosphere—carbon
dioxide, methane, and nitrous oxide—reached new record highs. The annual global …

Soil moisture drought, as one of the most important drought categories, is determined by
both water supply (eg, precipitation) and demand (eg, potential evapotranspiration). To shed …

Flash droughts, with rapid onset and strong intensity, have attracted much attention in recent
literature due to their devastating socio-agricultural impacts. Based on the microwave …

China has implemented a few large-scale afforestation programs in the arid and semi-arid
areas, including the north-eastern, northern, and north-western regions, collectively referred …