Downscaling Microwave Soil Moisture Products with SM-RDNet for Semiarid Mining Areas
, 2022 Surface soil moisture (SM), as a crucial ecological element, is significant to monitor in semiarid mining areas characterized by aridity and little rainfall.
Hongpeng Wang +6 more
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A proposal for a SAR interferometric model of soil moisture [PDF]
, 2012 Since long it is known that SAR interferometric observables are influenced by soil moisture variations, however there is a lack of scattering models that link interferometric observables and variations of the dielectric properties.
De Zan, Francesco +5 more
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Effect of surface temperature on soil moisture retrieval using CYGNSS
International Journal of Applied Earth Observations and Geoinformation, 2022 In this paper, a soil moisture (SM) retrieval model from spaceborne Global Navigation Satellite System Reflectometry (GNSS-R) observations that incorporates soil surface temperature (SST) for the first time is evaluated.
Yifan Zhu, Fei Guo, Xiaohong Zhang
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Temporal stability of soil moisture and radar backscatter observed by the advanced Synthetic Aperture Radar (ASAR) [PDF]
, 2008 The high spatio-temporal variability of soil moisture is the result of atmospheric forcing and redistribution processes related to terrain, soil, and vegetation characteristics.
Annett Bartsch +32 more
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Characterization of Rape Field Microwave Emission and Implications to Surface Soil Moisture Retrievals [PDF]
, 2012 In the course of Soil Moisture and Ocean Salinity (SMOS) mission calibration and validation activities, a ground based L-band radiometer ELBARA II was situated at the test site Puch in Southern Germany in the Upper Danube Catchment.
Mauser, Wolfram +14 more
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Soil moisture data using citizen science technology cross-validated by satellite data
Journal of Hydroinformatics, 2021 Soil moisture represents many attributes of the geo-hydrological cycle and the climate system. Citizen science through social media as an emerging tool could be utilized to collect soil moisture data. A pilot study area was selected in Shahriar, Iran.
Mohammad Karamouz +2 more
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Mapping the spatial variation of soil moisture at the large scale using GPR for pavement applications [PDF]
, 2015 The characterization of shallow soil moisture spatial variability at the large scale is a crucial issue in many research studies and fields of application ranging from agriculture and geology to civil and environmental engineering.
M. Giudici +9 more
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IEEE Journal of Selected Topics in Applied Earth Observations and Remote Sensing, 2021 Satellite remote sensing has been providing passive microwave soil moisture (SM) retrievals of a global spatial coverage and a high revisit frequency for research and applications in earth and environmental sciences, specifically after the soil moisture ...
Bin Fang +3 more
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Estimation of subsurface soil moisture from surface soil moisture in cold mountainous areas [PDF]
Hydrology and Earth System Sciences, 2020 Profile soil moisture (SM) in mountainous areas is important for water resource management and ecohydrological studies of downstream arid watersheds. Satellite products are useful for providing spatially distributed SM information but only have limited ...
J. Tian +8 more
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Monitoring Dynamic Distribution of Surface Soil Moisture Using SMAP data in Simineh-Zarrineh Catchment (Semi-arid region), NW of Iran [PDF]
Desert, 2021 Soil moisture (SM) acts like an impressive factor in hydrological process, agricultural productivity and monitoring of dangerous outcomes of climate change.
Kh. Haji Maleki +3 more
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