Strategies to measure soil moisture using traditional methods, automated sensors, remote sensing, and machine learning techniques: review, bibliometric analysis …

A Singh, K Gaurav, GK Sonkar, CC Lee - IEEE Access, 2023 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
This review provides a detailed synthesis of various in-situ, remote sensing, and machine
learning approaches to estimate soil moisture. Bibliometric analysis of the published …

Sensing technologies for characterizing and monitoring soil functions: A review

NEQ Silvero, JAM Demattê, B Minasny, NA Rosin… - Advances in …, 2023 - Elsevier
Soils perform multiple functions that contribute to human survival and well-being. However,
we often focus on soil to produce food and fiber and unsustainable management has …

Significance of dual polarimetric synthetic aperture radar in biomass retrieval: An attempt on Sentinel-1

S Periasamy - Remote Sensing of Environment, 2018 - Elsevier
The study investigates the suitability of Sentinel-1 data product of C-band frequency (5.36
GHz) in the estimation of terrestrial biomass. The experiment was carried out in the …

Evaluation of backscattering models and support vector machine for the retrieval of bare soil moisture from Sentinel-1 data

J Ezzahar, N Ouaadi, M Zribi, J Elfarkh, G Aouade… - Remote Sensing, 2019 - mdpi.com
The main objective of this work was to retrieve surface soil moisture (SSM) by using
scattering models and a support vector machine (SVM) technique driven by backscattering …

A comprehensive validation of the SMAP Enhanced Level-3 Soil Moisture product using ground measurements over varied climates and landscapes

R Zhang, S Kim, A Sharma - Remote sensing of environment, 2019 - Elsevier
This study presents a comprehensive validation of the Soil Moisture Active Passive (SMAP)
mission Enhanced Level-3 radiometer soil moisture (SM) product (Version 2) over 3 years …

Soil moisture content from GNSS reflectometry using dielectric permittivity from fresnel reflection coefficients

A Calabia, I Molina, S Jin - Remote sensing, 2020 - mdpi.com
Global Navigation Satellite Systems-Reflectometry (GNSS-R) has shown unprecedented
advantages to sense Soil Moisture Content (SMC) with high spatial and temporal coverage …

Using SAR-derived vegetation descriptors in a water cloud model to improve soil moisture retrieval

J Li, S Wang - Remote Sensing, 2018 - mdpi.com
The water cloud model (WCM) is a widely used radar backscatter model applied to SAR
images to retrieve soil moisture over vegetated areas. The WCM needs vegetation …

ALOS-2 and Sentinel-1 SAR data sensitivity analysis to surface soil moisture over bare and vegetated agricultural fields

A Sekertekin, AM Marangoz, S Abdikan - Computers and Electronics in …, 2020 - Elsevier
Abstract Surface Soil Moisture (SSM) is one of the important variables that help to
understand the physical process between the land and the atmosphere. Thus, temporal and …

A novel approach to quantify soil salinity by simulating the dielectric loss of SAR in three-dimensional density space

S Periasamy, KP Ravi - Remote Sensing of Environment, 2020 - Elsevier
Soil salinity is one of the crucial factors which undermines agricultural production in the semi-
arid region. The study was attempted for the Vellore district, one of the worst-hit semi-regions …

Vegetation and soil moisture inversion from SAR closure phases: First experiments and results

F De Zan, G Gomba - Remote sensing of environment, 2018 - Elsevier
The inversion of soil moisture from Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR) closure phases is
intrinsically plagued by ambiguities that affect the moisture order. This work shows a …