[HTML][HTML] Evaluation of 18 satellite-and model-based soil moisture products using in situ measurements from 826 sensors

HE Beck, M Pan, DG Miralles… - Hydrology and Earth …, 2021 - hess.copernicus.org
Abstract Information about the spatiotemporal variability of soil moisture is critical for many
purposes, including monitoring of hydrologic extremes, irrigation scheduling, and prediction …

Improved MUSIC-based SMOS RFI source detection and geolocation algorithm

H Park, V González-Gambau, A Camps… - … on geoscience and …, 2015 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
The European Space Agency's Soil Moisture and Ocean Salinity (SMOS) mission has been
providing L-band brightness temperature (BT) using its instrument, the Microwave Imaging …

High angular resolution RFI localization in synthetic aperture interferometric radiometers using direction-of-arrival estimation

H Park, V González-Gambau… - IEEE Geoscience and …, 2014 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Radio-frequency interference (RFI) seriously affects the retrieval of geophysical parameters
from the measurements of microwave radiometers. An accurate geolocation of the RFI is …

Evaluation of TRMM rainfall for soil moisture prediction in a subtropical climate

M Gupta, PK Srivastava, T Islam, AMB Ishak - Environmental earth …, 2014 - Springer
Abstract The Tropical Rainfall Measuring Mission (TRMM) is a joint space mission between
NASA and the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) designed to monitor and study …

Validation of NASA SMAP satellite soil moisture products over the desert of Kuwait

H AlJassar, M Temimi, M Abdelkader, P Petrov… - Remote Sensing, 2022 - mdpi.com
The goal of this study is to validate and analyze NASA's Soil Moisture Active Passive
(SMAP) products over the desert of Kuwait. The study period was between April 2015 and …

The impact of local acquisition time on the accuracy of microwave surface soil moisture retrievals over the contiguous United States

F Lei, WT Crow, H Shen, RM Parinussa, TRH Holmes - Remote Sensing, 2015 - mdpi.com
Satellite-derived soil moisture products have become an important data source for the study
of land surface processes and related applications. For satellites with sun-synchronous …

SMOS data as a source of the agricultural drought information: Case study of the Vistula catchment, Poland

M Kędzior, J Zawadzki - Geoderma, 2017 - Elsevier
So far numerous drought indices have been developed to quantitatively describe the
drought phenomenon. Most of the commonly used indices apply diverse meteorological …

Refinement of SMOS multiangular brightness temperature toward soil moisture retrieval and its analysis over reference targets

T Zhao, J Shi, R Bindlish, TJ Jackson… - IEEE Journal of …, 2014 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Soil moisture ocean salinity (SMOS) mission has been providing L-band multiangular
brightness temperature observations at a global scale since its launch in November 2009 …

Validation of four satellite-derived soil moisture products using ground-based in situ observations over northern China

W Liu, J Wang, F Xu, C Li, T Xian - Remote Sensing, 2022 - mdpi.com
Accurately obtaining the spatial distribution of soil moisture and its variability are the basis
for the land-atmosphere interaction study. We investigated the fidelity of four satellite-based …

Properties of the RFI environment at 1400–1427 MHz as observed by the soil moisture active/passive mission microwave radiometer

A Bringer, JT Johnson, Y Soldo… - IEEE Journal of …, 2021 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
The soil moisture active/passive (SMAP) satellite microwave radiometer has been providing
global measurements of L-band thermal emission from Earth since April 2015. Although the …