Toward global soil moisture monitoring with Sentinel-1: Harnessing assets and overcoming obstacles

B Bauer-Marschallinger, V Freeman… - … on Geoscience and …, 2018 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Soil moisture is a key environmental variable, important to, eg, farmers, meteorologists, and
disaster management units. Here, we present a method to retrieve surface soil moisture …

Soil moisture for hydrological applications: Open questions and new opportunities

L Brocca, L Ciabatta, C Massari, S Camici, A Tarpanelli - Water, 2017 - mdpi.com
Soil moisture is widely recognized as a key parameter in the mass and energy balance
between the land surface and the atmosphere and, hence, the potential societal benefits of …

Soil as a natural rain gauge: Estimating global rainfall from satellite soil moisture data

L Brocca, L Ciabatta, C Massari… - Journal of …, 2014 - Wiley Online Library
Measuring precipitation intensity is not straightforward; and over many areas, ground
observations are lacking and satellite observations are used to fill this gap. The most …

How much water is used for irrigation? A new approach exploiting coarse resolution satellite soil moisture products

L Brocca, A Tarpanelli, P Filippucci, W Dorigo… - International journal of …, 2018 - Elsevier
Abstract Knowledge of irrigation is essential for ensuring food and water security, and to
cope with the scarcity of water resources, which is expected to exacerbate under the …

[HTML][HTML] Soil moisture from fusion of scatterometer and SAR: Closing the scale gap with temporal filtering

B Bauer-Marschallinger, C Paulik, S Hochstöger… - Remote Sensing, 2018 - mdpi.com
Soil moisture is a key environmental variable, important to eg, farmers, meteorologists, and
disaster management units. We fuse surface soil moisture (SSM) estimates from spatio …

Influence of land use on soil moisture spatial–temporal variability and monitoring

G Zucco, L Brocca, T Moramarco, R Morbidelli - Journal of hydrology, 2014 - Elsevier
In this study, the influence of land use on soil moisture dynamics is investigated for
monitoring purposes. To this end, 23 measurement campaigns were carried out during a …

Ecological and methodological drivers of non‐stationarity in tree growth response to climate

J Tumajer, K Begović, V Čada, M Jenicek… - Global Change …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Radial tree growth is sensitive to environmental conditions, making observed growth
increments an important indicator of climate change effects on forest growth. However …

Assessing the impact of climate-change scenarios on landslide occurrence in Umbria Region, Italy

L Ciabatta, S Camici, L Brocca, F Ponziani, M Stelluti… - Journal of …, 2016 - Elsevier
Landslides are frequent and widespread geomorphological phenomena causing loss of
human life and damage to property. The main tool for assessing landslide risk relies on …

[PDF][PDF] Rainfall estimation from in situ soil moisture observations at several sites in Europe: an evaluation of the SM2RAIN algorithm

L Brocca, C Massari, L Ciabatta… - Journal of Hydrology …, 2015 - sciendo.com
Rain gauges, weather radars, satellite sensors and modelled data from weather centres are
used operationally for estimating the spatial-temporal variability of rainfall. However, the …

Multiyear monitoring of soil moisture over Iran through satellite and reanalysis soil moisture products

A Rahmani, S Golian, L Brocca - … journal of applied earth observation and …, 2016 - Elsevier
Soil moisture (SM) plays a fundamental role for many hydrological applications including
water resources, drought analysis, agriculture, and climate variability and extremes. SM is …