Soil moisture measuring techniques and factors affecting the moisture dynamics: A comprehensive review

MW Rasheed, J Tang, A Sarwar, S Shah, N Saddique… - Sustainability, 2022 - mdpi.com
The amount of surface soil moisture (SSM) is a crucial ecohydrological natural resource that
regulates important land surface processes. It affects critical land–atmospheric phenomena …

[HTML][HTML] Root zone soil moisture estimation with Random Forest

C Carranza, C Nolet, M Pezij, M van der Ploeg - Journal of hydrology, 2021 - Elsevier
Accurate estimates of root zone soil moisture (RZSM) at relevant spatio-temporal scales are
essential for many agricultural and hydrological applications. Applications of machine …

The challenge in estimating soil compressive strength for use in risk assessment of soil compaction in field traffic

P Schjønning, M Lamandé, J De Pue, WM Cornelis… - Advances in …, 2023 - Elsevier
Society calls for protection of agricultural soils in order to sustain the production of foods for
a growing population. Compaction of subsoil layers is an increasing problem in modern …

Status of the Tibetan Plateau observatory (Tibet-Obs) and a 10-year (2009–2019) surface soil moisture dataset

P Zhang, D Zheng, R van der Velde… - Earth System …, 2020 - essd.copernicus.org
The Tibetan Plateau observatory of plateau scale soil moisture and soil temperature (Tibet-
Obs) was established ten years ago, which has been widely used to calibrate/validate …

Anatomy of the 2018 agricultural drought in the Netherlands using in situ soil moisture and satellite vegetation indices

J Buitink, AM Swank, M van Der Ploeg… - Hydrology and Earth …, 2020 - hess.copernicus.org
The soil moisture status near the land surface is a key determinant of vegetation productivity.
The critical soil moisture content determines the transition from an energy-limited to a water …

[HTML][HTML] Application of Multi-Source remote sensing data and machine learning for surface soil moisture mapping in temperate forests of central Japan

K Win, T Sato, S Tsuyuki - Information, 2024 - mdpi.com
Surface soil moisture (SSM) is a key parameter for land surface hydrological processes. In
recent years, satellite remote sensing images have been widely used for SSM estimation …

[HTML][HTML] Soil moisture content retrieval over meadows from Sentinel-1 and Sentinel-2 data using physically based scattering models

HJF Benninga, R Van Der Velde, Z Su - Remote Sensing of Environment, 2022 - Elsevier
Soil moisture content (SMC) information at field scale could have important applications in
agricultural and regional water management. This study presents an operationally …

The Texas soil observation network: A comprehensive soil moisture dataset for remote sensing and land surface model validation

TG Caldwell, T Bongiovanni, MH Cosh… - Vadose Zone …, 2019 - Wiley Online Library
Core Ideas TxSON is a Core Cal/Val Site for the NASA SMAP, SMOS, and Sentinel
programs. TxSON consists of 40 in situ locations nested within a 36‐km EASE2 grid cell …

Towards estimating land evaporation at field scales using GLEAM

B Martens, RAM De Jeu, NEC Verhoest… - Remote Sensing, 2018 - mdpi.com
The evaporation of water from land into the atmosphere is a key component of the
hydrological cycle. Accurate estimates of this flux are essential for proper water …

[HTML][HTML] Sentinel-1 soil moisture content and its uncertainty over sparsely vegetated fields

HJF Benninga, R van der Velde, Z Su - Journal of Hydrology X, 2020 - Elsevier
Soil moisture content (SMC) retrievals from synthetic aperture radar (SAR) observations do
not exactly match with in situ references due to imperfect retrieval algorithms, and …