[HTML][HTML] SMOS-IC data record of soil moisture and L-VOD: Historical development, applications and perspectives

JP Wigneron, X Li, F Frappart, L Fan, A Al-Yaari… - Remote Sensing of …, 2021 - Elsevier
Passive microwave remote sensing observations at L-band provide key and global
information on surface soil moisture and vegetation water content, which are related to the …

Soil moisture retrieval from remote sensing measurements: Current knowledge and directions for the future

ZL Li, P Leng, C Zhou, KS Chen, FC Zhou… - Earth-Science …, 2021 - Elsevier
Soil moisture (SM) is an essential parameter for understanding the interactions and
feedbacks between the atmosphere and the Earth's surface through energy and water …

[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 …

[HTML][HTML] A new SMAP soil moisture and vegetation optical depth product (SMAP-IB): Algorithm, assessment and inter-comparison

X Li, JP Wigneron, L Fan, F Frappart, SH Yueh… - Remote Sensing of …, 2022 - Elsevier
Passive microwave remote sensing at L-band (1.4 GHz) provides an unprecedented
opportunity to estimate global surface soil moisture (SM) and vegetation water content (via …

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 …

[HTML][HTML] Global monitoring of the vegetation dynamics from the Vegetation Optical Depth (VOD): A review

F Frappart, JP Wigneron, X Li, X Liu, A Al-Yaari, L Fan… - Remote Sensing, 2020 - mdpi.com
Vegetation is a key element in the energy, water and carbon balances over the land
surfaces and is strongly impacted by climate change and anthropogenic effects. Remotely …

An assessment of L-band surface soil moisture products from SMOS and SMAP in the tropical areas

H Ma, X Li, J Zeng, X Zhang, J Dong, N Chen… - Remote Sensing of …, 2023 - Elsevier
Recently, large efforts have been made to develop surface soil moisture (SSM) products
based on observations from passive microwave L-band satellites at the global scale …

The first global soil moisture and vegetation optical depth product retrieved from fused SMOS and SMAP L-band observations

X Li, JP Wigneron, F Frappart, G De Lannoy… - Remote Sensing of …, 2022 - Elsevier
Abstract ESA's Soil Moisture Ocean Salinity (SMOS, since 2009) and NASA's Soil Moisture
Active Passive (SMAP, since 2015) are the only two space-borne L-band radiometer …

SMAP detects soil moisture under temperate forest canopies

A Colliander, MH Cosh, VR Kelly… - Geophysical …, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
Soil moisture dynamics in the presence of dense vegetation canopies are determinants of
ecosystem function and biogeochemical cycles, but the capability of existing spaceborne …

[HTML][HTML] Perspective on satellite-based land data assimilation to estimate water cycle components in an era of advanced data availability and model sophistication

GJM De Lannoy, M Bechtold, C Albergel, L Brocca… - Frontiers in …, 2022 - frontiersin.org
The beginning of the 21st century is marked by a rapid growth of land surface satellite data
and model sophistication. This offers new opportunities to estimate multiple components of …