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 …

Remote sensing of drought: Progress, challenges and opportunities

A AghaKouchak, A Farahmand, FS Melton… - Reviews of …, 2015 - Wiley Online Library
This review surveys current and emerging drought monitoring approaches using satellite
remote sensing observations from climatological and ecosystem perspectives. We argue …

On the suitability of using vegetation indices to monitor the response of Africa's terrestrial ecoregions to drought

S Lawal, B Hewitson, TS Egbebiyi, A Adesuyi - Science of the Total …, 2021 - Elsevier
Drought remains one of the world's most devastating phenomena, exhibiting impacts in both
magnitude and frequency. African vegetation remains highly vulnerable to drought impacts …

A thermal sampling depth correction method for land surface temperature estimation from satellite passive microwave observation over barren land

J Zhou, X Zhang, W Zhan, FM Göttsche… - … on Geoscience and …, 2017 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Satellite passive microwave (MW) remote sensing has a better ability to observe land
surface temperature (LST) in cloudy conditions than thermal infrared (TIR) remote sensing …

Evaluation of AMSR2 soil moisture products over the contiguous United States using in situ data from the International Soil Moisture Network

Q Wu, H Liu, L Wang, C Deng - … journal of applied earth observation and …, 2016 - Elsevier
High quality soil moisture datasets are required for various environmental applications. The
launch of the Advanced Microwave Scanning Radiometer 2 (AMSR2) on board the Global …

[HTML][HTML] A global analysis of land surface temperature diurnal cycle using MODIS observations

Z Sharifnezhadazizi, H Norouzi… - Journal of Applied …, 2019 - journals.ametsoc.org
Diurnal variations of land surface temperature (LST) play a vital role in a wide range of
applications such as climate change assessment, land–atmosphere interactions, and heat …

A physical-based framework for estimating the hourly all-weather land surface temperature by synchronizing geostationary satellite observations and land surface …

S Zhou, J Cheng, J Shi - IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and …, 2022 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
The high-frequency all-weather land surface temperature (LST) product generated from the
thermal-infrared (TIR) observations of the geostationary meteorological satellite is of great …

Microwave implementation of two-source energy balance approach for estimating evapotranspiration

TRH Holmes, CR Hain, WT Crow… - Hydrology and earth …, 2018 - hess.copernicus.org
A newly developed microwave (MW) land surface temperature (LST) product is used to
substitute thermal infrared (TIR)-based LST in the Atmosphere–Land Exchange Inverse …

A physical approach for a simultaneous retrieval of sounding, surface, hydrometeor, and cryospheric parameters from SNPP/ATMS

SA Boukabara, K Garrett, C Grassotti… - Journal of …, 2013 - Wiley Online Library
We present in this study the results obtained when applying a physical algorithm based on a
variational methodology to data from the Advanced Technology Microwave Sounder (ATMS) …

Assessment of differences between near-surface air and soil temperatures for reliable detection of high-latitude freeze and thaw states

F Shati, S Prakash, H Norouzi, R Blake - Cold Regions Science and …, 2018 - Elsevier
Near-surface air temperature and the underlying soil temperature are among the key
components of the Earth's surface energy budget, and they are important variables for the …