The International Soil Moisture Network: serving Earth system science for over a decade

W Dorigo, I Himmelbauer, D Aberer… - Hydrology and Earth …, 2021 - hess.copernicus.org
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 …

Intermittent rivers and ephemeral streams: Perspectives for critical zone science and research on socio‐ecosystems

O Fovet, A Belemtougri, L Boithias… - Wiley …, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
Intermittent rivers and ephemeral streams (IRES) are now recognized to support specific
freshwater biodiversity and ecosystem services and represent approximately half of the …

Observed controls on resilience of groundwater to climate variability in sub-Saharan Africa

MO Cuthbert, RG Taylor, G Favreau, MC Todd… - Nature, 2019 - nature.com
Abstract Groundwater in sub-Saharan Africa supports livelihoods and poverty alleviation,,
maintains vital ecosystems, and strongly influences terrestrial water and energy budgets. Yet …

Validation of soil moisture data products from the NASA SMAP mission

A Colliander, RH Reichle, WT Crow… - IEEE Journal of …, 2021 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
The National Aeronautics and Space Administration Soil Moisture Active Passive (SMAP)
mission has been validating its soil moisture (SM) products since the start of data production …

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 …

An advanced change detection method for time-series soil moisture retrieval from Sentinel-1

L Zhu, R Si, X Shen, JP Walker - Remote Sensing of Environment, 2022 - Elsevier
The feasibility of soil moisture retrieval from C-band Sentinel-1 data has been widely
acknowledged, with pre-operational 1-km products currently available at regional and/or …

Time series soil moisture retrieval from SAR data: Multi-temporal constraints and a global validation

L Zhu, S Yuan, Y Liu, C Chen, JP Walker - Remote Sensing of Environment, 2023 - Elsevier
Time series algorithms for soil moisture retrieval from synthetic aperture radar (SAR) data
have steadily increased in popularity over the past decade due to the feasibility of …

Global evaluation of SMAP/Sentinel-1 soil moisture products

F Mohseni, SM Mirmazloumi, M Mokhtarzade… - Remote Sensing, 2022 - mdpi.com
SMAP/Sentinel-1 soil moisture is the latest SMAP (Soil Moisture Active Passive) product
derived from synergistic utilization of the radiometry observations of SMAP and radar …

[HTML][HTML] Convection permitting regional climate change simulations for understanding future climate and informing decision making in Africa

CA Senior, JH Marsham, S Berthou… - Bulletin of the …, 2021 - journals.ametsoc.org
Pan-Africa convection-permitting regional climate model simulations have been performed
to study the impact of high resolution and the explicit representation of atmospheric moist …

A cross-resolution transfer learning approach for soil moisture retrieval from Sentinel-1 using limited training samples

L Zhu, J Dai, Y Liu, S Yuan, T Qin, JP Walker - Remote Sensing of …, 2024 - Elsevier
Abstract Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR) data is increasingly popular as a data source for
global near-surface soil moisture mapping, but large-scale applications are still challenging …