Soil moisture (SM) is a key hydrologic state variable that is of significant importance for
numerous Earth and environmental science applications that directly impact the global …

Satellite remote sensing technology has been widely used to estimate surface soil moisture.
Numerous efforts have been devoted to develop global soil moisture products. However …

Soil moisture (SM) is an essential parameter for understanding the interactions and
feedbacks between the atmosphere and the Earth's surface through energy and water …

Abstract Advances in Earth Observation (EO) technology, particularly over the last two
decades, have shown that soil moisture content (SMC) can be measured to some degree or …

The amount of surface soil moisture (SSM) is a crucial ecohydrological natural resource that
regulates important land surface processes. It affects critical land–atmospheric phenomena …

As an important parameter in recent and numerous environmental studies, soil moisture
(SM) influences the exchange of water and energy at the interface between the land surface …

At the watershed scale, soil moisture is the major control for rainfall–runoff response,
especially where saturation excess runoff processes dominate. From the ecological point of …

The sensitivity of Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR) to soil moisture is well established,
however, the retrieval of soil moisture from SAR is confounded by the effects of surface …

The National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) Soil Moisture Active Passive
(SMAP) satellite is scheduled for launch in January 2015. In order to develop robust soil …

A robust and simple algorithm is developed to merge L-band radiometer retrievals and L-
band radar observations to obtain high-resolution (9-km) soil-moisture estimates from data …