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 …

Modelling the passive microwave signature from land surfaces: A review of recent results and application to the L-band SMOS & SMAP soil moisture retrieval …

JP Wigneron, TJ Jackson, P O'neill… - Remote Sensing of …, 2017 - Elsevier
Two passive microwave missions are currently operating at L-band to monitor surface soil
moisture (SM) over continental surfaces. The SMOS sensor, based on an innovative …

Radar remote sensing of agricultural canopies: A review

SC Steele-Dunne, H McNairn… - IEEE Journal of …, 2017 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Observations from spaceborne radar contain considerable information about vegetation
dynamics. The ability to extract this information could lead to improved soil moisture …

Remotely sensed soil moisture can capture dynamics relevant to plant water uptake

AF Feldman, DJ Short Gianotti, J Dong… - Water Resources …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
A frequently expressed viewpoint across the Earth science community is that global soil
moisture estimates from satellite L‐band (1.4 GHz) measurements represent moisture only …

Seasonal variations in vegetation water content retrieved from microwave remote sensing over Amazon intact forests

H Wang, JP Wigneron, P Ciais, Y Yao, L Fan… - Remote Sensing of …, 2023 - Elsevier
Vegetation optical depth (VOD) is seasonally sensitive to plant water content and
aboveground biomass. This index has a strong penetrability within the vegetation canopy …

Four decades of microwave satellite soil moisture observations: Part 1. A review of retrieval algorithms

L Karthikeyan, M Pan, N Wanders, DN Kumar… - Advances in Water …, 2017 - Elsevier
The satellite based passive (radiometer) and active (radar) microwave sensors enhanced
our ability to retrieve soil moisture at global scales. It has been almost four decades since …

Satellite and in situ observations for advancing global Earth surface modelling: A review

G Balsamo, A Agusti-Parareda, C Albergel, G Arduini… - Remote Sensing, 2018 - mdpi.com
In this paper, we review the use of satellite-based remote sensing in combination with in situ
data to inform Earth surface modelling. This involves verification and optimization methods …

[PDF][PDF] 被动微波反演土壤水分的L 波段新发展及未来展望

赵天杰 - 地理科学进展, 2018 - researchgate.net
土壤水分是陆—气交互作用的重要边界条件, 在全球水循环和能量循环中扮演着关键角色,
直接影响降水, 径流, 下渗与蒸散发等水文循环过程, 并能反映洪涝和干旱的程度 …

Moisture pulse-reserve in the soil-plant continuum observed across biomes

AF Feldman, DJ Short Gianotti, AG Konings, KA McColl… - Nature plants, 2018 - nature.com
The degree to which individual pulses of available water drive plant activity across diverse
biomes and climates is not well understood. It has previously only been investigated in a few …

[HTML][HTML] L-band vegetation optical depth as an indicator of plant water potential in a temperate deciduous forest stand

NM Holtzman, LDL Anderegg, S Kraatz… - …, 2021 - bg.copernicus.org
Vegetation optical depth (VOD) retrieved from microwave radiometry correlates with the total
amount of water in vegetation, based on theoretical and empirical evidence. Because the …