Soil moisture and sea surface salinity derived from satellite-borne sensors

J Boutin, S Yueh, R Bindlish, S Chan, D Entekhabi… - Surveys in …, 2023 - Springer
The monitoring of soil moisture and sea surface salinity over the Earth has been profoundly
enhanced during the last thirteen years due to a new generation of satellite sensors. L-band …

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 …

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 …

TPE-CatBoost: An adaptive model for soil moisture spatial estimation in the main maize-producing areas of China with multiple environment covariates

J Yu, W Zheng, L Xu, F Meng, J Li, L Zhangzhong - Journal of Hydrology, 2022 - Elsevier
Maize is one of the major crops in China. The soil water content (SWC) in the root zone of
maize is a critical indicator that guides agricultural production decisions and can affect …

A multi-scale algorithm for the NISAR mission high-resolution soil moisture product

P Lal, G Singh, NN Das, D Entekhabi, R Lohman… - Remote Sensing of …, 2023 - Elsevier
This study proposes a multi-scale soil moisture algorithm for the upcoming NASA-ISRO SAR
(NISAR) mission to estimate high-resolution (200 [m]) soil moisture (the water content of the …

Reviews and syntheses: Recent advances in microwave remote sensing in support of terrestrial carbon cycle science in Arctic–boreal regions

A Mavrovic, O Sonnentag, J Lemmetyinen… - …, 2023 - bg.copernicus.org
Spaceborne microwave remote sensing (300 MHz–100 GHz) provides a valuable method
for characterizing environmental changes, especially in Arctic–boreal regions (ABRs) where …

Crop-CASMA: A web geoprocessing and map service based architecture and implementation for serving soil moisture and crop vegetation condition data over US …

C Zhang, Z Yang, H Zhao, Z Sun, L Di… - International Journal of …, 2022 - Elsevier
Soil moisture is an essential parameter to understand crop conditions throughout the
growing season. Collecting soil moisture data by field observation is labor-intensive …

Analysis of polarimetric GNSS-R Stokes parameters of the Earth's land surface

JF Munoz-Martin, N Rodriguez-Alvarez… - Remote Sensing of …, 2023 - Elsevier
Abstract Polarimetric Global Navigation Satellite System–Reflectometry (GNSS-R) has
proven to be sensitive to different land parameters, such as vegetation or soil moisture. In …

Assessment of ERA5-land volumetric soil water layer product using in situ and SMAP soil moisture observations

P Lal, G Singh, NN Das, A Colliander… - IEEE Geoscience and …, 2022 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
In preparation for the NISAR mission soil moisture algorithm, this study performs the
validation of the European Center for Medium-Range Weather Forecast (ECMWF) ERA5 …