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 …

Ground, proximal, and satellite remote sensing of soil moisture

E Babaeian, M Sadeghi, SB Jones… - Reviews of …, 2019 - Wiley Online Library
Soil moisture (SM) is a key hydrologic state variable that is of significant importance for
numerous Earth and environmental science applications that directly impact the global …

Evolution of the ESA CCI Soil Moisture climate data records and their underlying merging methodology

A Gruber, T Scanlon, R van der Schalie… - Earth System …, 2019 - essd.copernicus.org
The European Space Agency's Climate Change Initiative for Soil Moisture (ESA CCI SM)
merging algorithm generates consistent quality-controlled long-term (1978–2018) climate …

ESA CCI Soil Moisture for improved Earth system understanding: State-of-the art and future directions

W Dorigo, W Wagner, C Albergel, F Albrecht… - Remote Sensing of …, 2017 - Elsevier
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 …

[HTML][HTML] Validation practices for satellite soil moisture retrievals: What are (the) errors?

A Gruber, G De Lannoy, C Albergel, A Al-Yaari… - Remote sensing of …, 2020 - Elsevier
This paper presents a community effort to develop good practice guidelines for the validation
of global coarse-scale satellite soil moisture products. We provide theoretical background, a …

Validation of SMAP surface soil moisture products with core validation sites

A Colliander, TJ Jackson, R Bindlish, S Chan… - Remote sensing of …, 2017 - Elsevier
Abstract The NASA Soil Moisture Active Passive (SMAP) mission has utilized a set of core
validation sites as the primary methodology in assessing the soil moisture retrieval algorithm …

Development and assessment of the SMAP enhanced passive soil moisture product

SK Chan, R Bindlish, P O'Neill, T Jackson… - Remote sensing of …, 2018 - Elsevier
Abstract Launched in January 2015, the National Aeronautics and Space Administration
(NASA) Soil Moisture Active Passive (SMAP) observatory was designed to provide frequent …

The SMAP and Copernicus Sentinel 1A/B microwave active-passive high resolution surface soil moisture product

NN Das, D Entekhabi, RS Dunbar, MJ Chaubell… - Remote Sensing of …, 2019 - Elsevier
Abstract Soil Moisture Active Passive (SMAP) mission of NASA was launched in January
2015. Currently, SMAP has an L-band radiometer and a defunct L-band radar with a rotating …

Assessment of the SMAP passive soil moisture product

SK Chan, R Bindlish, PE O'Neill, E Njoku… - … on Geoscience and …, 2016 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
The National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) Soil Moisture Active Passive
(SMAP) satellite mission was launched on January 31, 2015. The observatory was …

Triple collocation-based merging of satellite soil moisture retrievals

A Gruber, WA Dorigo, W Crow… - IEEE Transactions on …, 2017 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
We propose a method for merging soil moisture retrievals from spaceborne active and
passive microwave instruments based on weighted averaging taking into account the error …