SMAP-HydroBlocks, a 30-m satellite-based soil moisture dataset for the conterminous US

N Vergopolan, NW Chaney, M Pan, J Sheffield… - Scientific data, 2021 - nature.com
Soil moisture plays a key role in controlling land-atmosphere interactions, with implications
for water resources, agriculture, climate, and ecosystem dynamics. Although soil moisture …

[HTML][HTML] Snow depth mapping with unpiloted aerial system lidar observations: a case study in Durham, New Hampshire, United States

JM Jacobs, AG Hunsaker, FB Sullivan, M Palace… - The …, 2021 - tc.copernicus.org
Terrestrial and airborne laser scanning and structure from motion techniques have emerged
as viable methods to map snow depths. While these systems have advanced snow …

The reliability of categorical triple collocation for evaluating soil freeze/thaw datasets

H Li, L Chai, W Crow, J Dong, S Liu, S Zhao - Remote Sensing of …, 2022 - Elsevier
Seasonal soil freeze/thaw (FT) state transition plays a critical role in the range of ecosystem,
hydrological and biogeochemical processes. A thorough and large-scale validation of …

Retrieving freeze/thaw surface state from CYGNSS measurements

H Carreno-Luengo, CS Ruf - IEEE Transactions on Geoscience …, 2021 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Freeze/Thaw (F/T) surface state retrieval is important to further understand hydrological
patterns and climate change. This article investigates the use of Earth-reflected Global …

Monitoring freeze-thaw state by means of GNSS reflectometry: An analysis of TechDemoSat-1 data

D Comite, L Cenci, A Colliander… - IEEE Journal of …, 2020 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
The article of the freeze/thaw dynamic of high-latitude Earth surfaces is extremely important
and informative for monitoring the carbon cycle, the climate change, and the security of …

Global assessment of the SMAP freeze/thaw data record and regional applications for detecting spring onset and frost events

Y Kim, JS Kimball, X Xu, RS Dunbar, A Colliander… - Remote Sensing, 2019 - mdpi.com
More than half of the global land area undergoes seasonal frozen and thawed conditions
that constrain eco-hydrological processes. The freeze-thaw (FT) retrieval from satellite …

QLB-NET: A Dense Soil Moisture and Freeze–Thaw Monitoring Network in the Qinghai Lake Basin on the Qinghai–Tibetan Plateau

L Chai, Z Zhu, S Liu, Z Xu, R Jin, X Li… - Bulletin of the …, 2024 - journals.ametsoc.org
Soil moisture (SM) and soil freeze–thaw (FT) are two relatively active surface parameters
that are significant to the sustainable development of the water–land–air–plant–human …

A novel freeze-thaw state detection algorithm based on L-band passive microwave remote sensing

S Lv, J Wen, C Simmer, Y Zeng, Y Guo, Z Su - Remote Sensing, 2022 - mdpi.com
Knowing the freeze-thaw (FT) state of the land surface is essential for many aspects of
weather forecasting, climate, hydrology, and agriculture. Microwave L-band emission …

Informing improvements in freeze/thaw state classification using subpixel temperature

JM Johnston, PR Houser, V Maggioni… - … on Geoscience and …, 2021 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Freeze/thaw (FT) processes at the earth's surface can have a considerable effect on global
carbon, energy, and hydrologic cycles. Therefore, an accurate representation of FT is …

The utility of SMAP soil moisture and freeze-thaw datasets as precursors to spring-melt flood conditions: A case study in the Red River of the North Basin

A Davitt, G Schumann, C Forgotson… - IEEE Journal of …, 2019 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
We evaluated NASA soil moisture active-passive (SMAP) soil moisture (SM) and freeze-
thaw (FT) datasets for the utility to identify FT and SM conditions as precursors to a 2017 …