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 …

Global monitoring of snow water equivalent using high frequency radar remote sensing

L Tsang, M Durand, C Derksen, AP Barros… - The Cryosphere …, 2021 - tc.copernicus.org
Seasonal snow cover is the largest single component of the cryosphere in areal extent,
covering an average of 46 million square km of Earth's surface (31% of the land area) each …

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 …

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 …

High spatio-temporal resolution CYGNSS soil moisture estimates using artificial neural networks

O Eroglu, M Kurum, D Boyd, AC Gurbuz - Remote sensing, 2019 - mdpi.com
This paper presents a learning-based, physics-aware soil moisture (SM) retrieval algorithm
for NASA's Cyclone Global Navigation Satellite System (CYGNSS) mission. The goal of the …

Generating high-resolution daily soil moisture by using spatial downscaling techniques: A comparison of six machine learning algorithms

Y Liu, W Jing, Q Wang, X Xia - Advances in Water Resources, 2020 - Elsevier
Tremendous efforts have been made for obtaining surface soil moisture (SM) at high spatial
resolutions from microwave-based products via spatial downscaling. In recent years …

Polarimetric synthetic aperture radar image segmentation by convolutional neural network using graphical processing units

SH Wang, J Sun, P Phillips, G Zhao… - Journal of Real-Time …, 2018 - Springer
Image segmentation is an important application of polarimetric synthetic aperture radar. This
study aimed to create an 11-layer deep convolutional neural network for this task. The Pauli …

Theory of microwave remote sensing of vegetation effects, SoOp and rough soil surface backscattering

L Tsang, TH Liao, R Gao, H Xu, W Gu, J Zhu - Remote Sensing, 2022 - mdpi.com
In this paper, we provide updates on our recent work on the theory of microwave remote
sensing for applications in remote sensing of soil moisture and snow water equivalent …

Validation of SMAP soil moisture at terrestrial National Ecological Observatory Network (NEON) sites show potential for soil moisture retrieval in forested areas

E Ayres, A Colliander, MH Cosh… - IEEE journal of …, 2021 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Soil moisture influences forest health, fire occurrence and extent, and insect and pathogen
impacts, creating a need for regular, globally extensive soil moisture measurements that can …

1-km soil moisture retrieval using multi-temporal dual-channel SAR data from Sentinel-1 A/B satellites in a semi-arid watershed

Z Wang, T Zhao, J Shi, H Wang, D Ji, P Yao… - Remote Sensing of …, 2023 - Elsevier
Soil moisture is an important variable in agricultural and hydrological applications. Sentinel-
1 (A/B) satellite provides high-resolution (∼ 10 m) synthetic aperture radar data, and its high …