Passive microwave remote sensing of snow depth: Techniques, challenges and future directions

S Tanniru, R Ramsankaran - Remote Sensing, 2023 - mdpi.com
Monitoring snowpack depth is essential in many applications at regional and global scales.
Space-borne passive microwave (PMW) remote sensing observations have been widely …

Grand challenges of hydrologic modeling for food-energy-water nexus security in high mountain Asia

SK Mishra, S Rupper, S Kapnick, K Casey… - Frontiers in …, 2021 - frontiersin.org
Climate-influenced changes in hydrology affect water-food-energy security that may impact
up to two billion people downstream of the High Mountain Asia (HMA) region. Changes in …

Spatiotemporal distribution of seasonal snow water equivalent in High-Mountain Asia from an 18-year Landsat-MODIS era snow reanalysis dataset

Y Liu, Y Fang, SA Margulis - The Cryosphere Discussions, 2021 - tc.copernicus.org
Seasonal snowpack is a key water resource and plays an important role in regional climate.
However, how seasonal snow mass is distributed over space and time is not fully …

Downscaling snow depth mapping by fusion of microwave and optical remote-sensing data based on deep learning

L Zhu, Y Zhang, J Wang, W Tian, Q Liu, G Ma, X Kan… - Remote Sensing, 2021 - mdpi.com
Accurate high spatial resolution snow depth mapping in arid and semi-arid regions is of
great importance for snow disaster assessment and hydrological modeling. However, due to …

Exploring the utility of machine learning-based passive microwave brightness temperature data assimilation over terrestrial snow in high mountain Asia

Y Kwon, BA Forman, JA Ahmad, SV Kumar, Y Yoon - Remote Sensing, 2019 - mdpi.com
This study explores the use of a support vector machine (SVM) as the observation operator
within a passive microwave brightness temperature data assimilation framework (herein …

Focal-TSMP: Deep learning for vegetation health prediction and agricultural drought assessment from a regional climate simulation

MH Shams Eddin, J Gall - EGUsphere, 2023 - egusphere.copernicus.org
In this study, we investigate applying deep learning (DL) models on a regional climate
simulation produced by the Terrestrial Systems Modelling Platform (TSMP Ground to …

Snow Water Equivalent Monitoring—A Review of Large-Scale Remote Sensing Applications

S Schilling, A Dietz, C Kuenzer - Remote Sensing, 2024 - mdpi.com
Snow plays a crucial role in the global water cycle, providing water to over 20% of the
world's population and serving as a vital component for flora, fauna, and climate regulation …

Focal-TSMP: deep learning for vegetation health prediction and agricultural drought assessment from a regional climate simulation

MH Shams Eddin, J Gall - Geoscientific Model Development, 2024 - gmd.copernicus.org
Satellite-derived agricultural drought indices can provide a complementary perspective of
terrestrial vegetation trends. In addition, their integration for drought assessments under …

A Snow Water Equivalent Retrieval Framework Coupling 1D Hydrology and Passive Microwave Radiative Transfer Models

Y Cao, C Luo, S Tan, DH Kang, Y Fang, J Pan - Remote Sensing, 2024 - mdpi.com
The retrieval of continuous snow water equivalent (SWE) directly from passive microwave
observations is hampered by ambiguity, which can potentially be mitigated by incorporating …

Prediction of active microwave backscatter over snow-covered terrain across Western Colorado using a land surface model and support vector machine regression

J Park, BA Forman, H Lievens - IEEE journal of selected topics …, 2021 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
The main objective of this article is to develop a physically constrained support vector
machine (SVM) to predict C-band backscatter over snow-covered terrain as a function of …