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 …

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 …

Time-series retrieval of soil moisture using CYGNSS

MM Al-Khaldi, JT Johnson, AJ O'Brien… - … on Geoscience and …, 2019 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Time-series retrievals of soil moisture obtained from the Cyclone Global Navigation Satellite
System (CYGNSS) constellation are presented. The retrieval approach assumes that …

Sentinel-1 soil moisture at 1 km resolution: a validation study

A Balenzano, F Mattia, G Satalino, FP Lovergine… - Remote Sensing of …, 2021 - Elsevier
This study presents an assessment of a pre-operational soil moisture product at 1 km
resolution derived from satellite data acquired by the European Radar Observatory Sentinel …

Soil moisture retrieval over croplands using dual-pol L-band GRD SAR data

N Bhogapurapu, S Dey, D Mandal… - Remote Sensing of …, 2022 - Elsevier
Vegetation cover significantly influences the hydrometeorological processes of land
surfaces. The heterogeneity of vegetation cover makes these processes more complex and …

An advanced change detection method for time-series soil moisture retrieval from Sentinel-1

L Zhu, R Si, X Shen, JP Walker - Remote Sensing of Environment, 2022 - Elsevier
The feasibility of soil moisture retrieval from C-band Sentinel-1 data has been widely
acknowledged, with pre-operational 1-km products currently available at regional and/or …

Field-scale soil moisture estimation using sentinel-1 GRD SAR data

N Bhogapurapu, S Dey, S Homayouni… - Advances in Space …, 2022 - Elsevier
Soil moisture is a critical land variable that controls the energy and mass balance in land–
atmosphere interactions. Spaceborne Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR) sensors offer an …

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 …

Surface soil moisture retrieval using the L-band synthetic aperture radar onboard the soil moisture active–passive satellite and evaluation at core validation sites

SB Kim, JJ Van Zyl, JT Johnson… - … on Geoscience and …, 2017 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
This paper evaluates the retrieval of soil moisture in the top 5-cm layer at 3-km spatial
resolution using L-band dual-copolarized Soil Moisture Active-Passive (SMAP) synthetic …

Time series soil moisture retrieval from SAR data: Multi-temporal constraints and a global validation

L Zhu, S Yuan, Y Liu, C Chen, JP Walker - Remote Sensing of Environment, 2023 - Elsevier
Time series algorithms for soil moisture retrieval from synthetic aperture radar (SAR) data
have steadily increased in popularity over the past decade due to the feasibility of …