Radar remote sensing of agricultural canopies: A review

SC Steele-Dunne, H McNairn… - IEEE Journal of …, 2017 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Observations from spaceborne radar contain considerable information about vegetation
dynamics. The ability to extract this information could lead to improved soil moisture …

[HTML][HTML] Global monitoring of the vegetation dynamics from the Vegetation Optical Depth (VOD): A review

F Frappart, JP Wigneron, X Li, X Liu, A Al-Yaari, L Fan… - Remote Sensing, 2020 - mdpi.com
Vegetation is a key element in the energy, water and carbon balances over the land
surfaces and is strongly impacted by climate change and anthropogenic effects. Remotely …

[HTML][HTML] Evolution of the ESA CCI Soil Moisture climate data records and their underlying merging methodology

A Gruber, T Scanlon, R van der Schalie… - Earth System …, 2019 - essd.copernicus.org
The European Space Agency's Climate Change Initiative for Soil Moisture (ESA CCI SM)
merging algorithm generates consistent quality-controlled long-term (1978–2018) climate …

[HTML][HTML] Sensitivity of Sentinel-1 backscatter to vegetation dynamics: An Austrian case study

M Vreugdenhil, W Wagner, B Bauer-Marschallinger… - Remote Sensing, 2018 - mdpi.com
Crop monitoring is of great importance for eg, yield prediction and increasing water use
efficiency. The Copernicus Sentinel-1 mission operated by the European Space Agency …

Toward global soil moisture monitoring with Sentinel-1: Harnessing assets and overcoming obstacles

B Bauer-Marschallinger, V Freeman… - … on Geoscience and …, 2018 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Soil moisture is a key environmental variable, important to, eg, farmers, meteorologists, and
disaster management units. Here, we present a method to retrieve surface soil moisture …

Triple collocation-based merging of satellite soil moisture retrievals

A Gruber, WA Dorigo, W Crow… - IEEE Transactions on …, 2017 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
We propose a method for merging soil moisture retrievals from spaceborne active and
passive microwave instruments based on weighted averaging taking into account the error …

[HTML][HTML] The global long-term microwave vegetation optical depth climate archive (VODCA)

L Moesinger, W Dorigo, R De Jeu… - Earth System …, 2020 - essd.copernicus.org
Since the late 1970s, space-borne microwave radiometers have been providing
measurements of radiation emitted by the Earth's surface. From these measurements it is …

Macro to micro: microwave remote sensing of plant water content for physiology and ecology

AG Konings, K Rao, SC Steele‐Dunne - New Phytologist, 2019 - Wiley Online Library
Although primarily valued for their suitability for oceanographic applications and soil
moisture estimation, microwave remote sensing observations are also sensitive to plant …

How much water is used for irrigation? A new approach exploiting coarse resolution satellite soil moisture products

L Brocca, A Tarpanelli, P Filippucci, W Dorigo… - International journal of …, 2018 - Elsevier
Abstract Knowledge of irrigation is essential for ensuring food and water security, and to
cope with the scarcity of water resources, which is expected to exacerbate under the …

Seasonal variations in vegetation water content retrieved from microwave remote sensing over Amazon intact forests

H Wang, JP Wigneron, P Ciais, Y Yao, L Fan… - Remote Sensing of …, 2023 - Elsevier
Vegetation optical depth (VOD) is seasonally sensitive to plant water content and
aboveground biomass. This index has a strong penetrability within the vegetation canopy …