A review of satellite-derived soil moisture and its usage for flood estimation

S Kim, R Zhang, H Pham, A Sharma - Remote Sensing in Earth Systems …, 2019 - Springer
Accurate knowledge of the spatiotemporal behavior of soil moisture (SM) can greatly
improve hydrological forecasting capability. While ground-based SM measurements exhibit …

Global precipitation map using satellite-borne microwave radiometers by the GSMaP project: Production and validation

T Kubota, S Shige, H Hashizume… - … on Geoscience and …, 2007 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
This paper documents the production and validation of retrieved rainfall data obtained from
satellite-borne microwave radiometers by the Global Satellite Mapping of Precipitation …

Global Satellite Mapping of Precipitation (GSMaP) products in the GPM era

T Kubota, K Aonashi, T Ushio, S Shige… - … Measurement: Volume 1, 2020 - Springer
Abstract As the Japanese Global Precipitation Measurement (GPM) product, the Global
Satellite Mapping of Precipitation (GSMaP) has been provided by the Japan Aerospace …

GSMaP passive microwave precipitation retrieval algorithm: Algorithm description and validation

K Aonashi, J Awaka, M Hirose, T Kozu, T Kubota… - 気象集誌. 第2 輯, 2009 - jlc.jst.go.jp
This paper describes a precipitation-retrieval algorithm for the Tropical Rainfall Measuring
Mission (TRMM) Microwave Imager (TMI) that was developed under the Global Satellite …

A global comparison of alternate AMSR2 soil moisture products: Why do they differ?

S Kim, YY Liu, FM Johnson, RM Parinussa… - Remote Sensing of …, 2015 - Elsevier
This study assesses two remotely sensed soil moisture products from the Advanced
Microwave Scanning Radiometer 2 (AMSR2), a sensor onboard the Global Change …

[HTML][HTML] Improvement of TMI rain retrievals in mountainous areas

S Shige, S Kida, H Ashiwake, T Kubota… - Journal of Applied …, 2013 - journals.ametsoc.org
Heavy rainfall associated with shallow orographic rainfall systems has been underestimated
by passive microwave radiometer algorithms owing to weak ice scattering signatures. The …

Development of an advanced microwave scanning radiometer (AMSR-E) algorithm for soil moisture and vegetation water content

T KOIKE, Y NAKAMURA, I KAIHOTSU… - Proceedings of …, 2004 - jstage.jst.go.jp
Soil moisture and water content in vegetation are the key parameters of land—atmosphere
interaction, which affect the seasonal and interannual variations of the global and regional …

[HTML][HTML] Approximation of single scattering properties of ice and snow particles for high microwave frequencies

G Liu - Journal of the atmospheric sciences, 2004 - journals.ametsoc.org
As satellite high-frequency passive microwave data have recently become available, there is
an increasing demand for an accurate and computationally efficient method to calculate the …

Improvement of the AMSR-E algorithm for soil moisture estimation by introducing a fractional vegetation coverage dataset derived from MODIS data

H Fujii, T Koike, K Imaoka - Journal of the remote sensing society of …, 2009 - jstage.jst.go.jp
Improvement of the AMSR-E Algorithm for Soil Moisture Estimation by Introducing a Fractional
Vegetation Coverage Dataset Derived Page 1 Abstract RSSJ Journal of The Remote Sensing …

Implementation of an orographic/nonorographic rainfall classification scheme in the GSMaP algorithm for microwave radiometers

MK Yamamoto, S Shige - Atmospheric Research, 2015 - Elsevier
We incorporate an orographic/nonorographic rainfall classification scheme into the Global
Satellite Mapping of Precipitation algorithm for passive microwave radiometers. It improves …