Soil moisture retrieval from airborne L-band passive microwave using high resolution multispectral data

S Hasan, C Montzka, C Rüdiger, M Ali… - ISPRS Journal of …, 2014 - Elsevier
For the soil moisture retrieval from passive microwave sensors, such as ESA's Soil Moisture
and Ocean Salinity (SMOS) and the NASA Soil Moisture Active and Passive (SMAP) …

Snow microwave emission modeling of ice lenses within a snowpack using the microwave emission model for layered snowpacks

B Montpetit, A Royer, A Roy, A Langlois… - IEEE Transactions on …, 2013 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Ice lens formation, which follows rain on snow events or melt-refreeze cycles in winter and
spring, is likely to become more frequent as a result of increasing mean winter temperatures …

Impact of random and periodic surface roughness on P-and L-band radiometry

X Shen, JP Walker, N Ye, X Wu, F Brakhasi… - Remote Sensing of …, 2022 - Elsevier
L-band passive microwave remote sensing is currently considered a robust technique for
global monitoring of soil moisture. However, soil roughness complicates the relationship …

Validation of SMOS brightness temperatures during the HOBE airborne campaign, Western Denmark

S Bircher, JE Balling, N Skou… - IEEE Transactions on …, 2011 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
The Soil Moisture and Ocean Salinity (SMOS) mission delivers global surface soil moisture
fields at high temporal resolution which is of major relevance for water management and …

Multi-frequency radiometer-based soil moisture retrieval and algorithm parameterization using in situ sites

Y Gao, A Colliander, MS Burgin, JP Walker… - Remote Sensing of …, 2022 - Elsevier
L-band brightness temperature (TB) has been shown to provide the best sensitivity to soil
moisture (SM) although C-and X-band based products offer a longer time-series from …

Impact of soil permittivity and temperature profile on L-band microwave emission of frozen soil

D Zheng, X Li, T Zhao, J Wen… - … on Geoscience and …, 2020 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
An unexplored aspect of L-band microwave emission is the impact of soil moisture and soil
temperature (SMST) profile dynamics on diurnal brightness temperature (TB) signatures of …

First evaluation of the simultaneous SMOS and ELBARA-II observations in the Mediterranean region

JP Wigneron, M Schwank, EL Baeza, Y Kerr… - Remote Sensing of …, 2012 - Elsevier
The SMOS (Soil Moisture and Ocean Salinity) mission was launched on November 2, 2009.
Over the land surfaces, simultaneous retrievals of surface soil moisture (SM) and vegetation …

A semi-empirical SNR model for soil moisture retrieval using GNSS SNR data

M Han, Y Zhu, D Yang, X Hong, S Song - Remote Sensing, 2018 - mdpi.com
The Global Navigation Satellite System-Interferometry and Reflectometry (GNSS-IR)
technique on soil moisture remote sensing was studied. A semi-empirical Signal-to-Noise …

Roughness and vegetation parameterizations at L-band for soil moisture retrievals over a vineyard field

R Fernández-Morán, JP Wigneron… - Remote Sensing of …, 2015 - Elsevier
The capability of L-band radiometry to monitor surface soil moisture (SM) at global scale has
been analyzed in numerous studies, mostly in the framework of the ESA SMOS and NASA …

SMOS level 2 retrieval algorithm over forests: Description and generation of global maps

R Rahmoune, P Ferrazzoli, YH Kerr… - IEEE Journal of …, 2013 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
This paper shows global maps of optical depth and soil moisture over land, obtained using
the last prototype of SMOS Level 2 retrieval algorithm, which will be implemented in V600 …