Operational readiness of microwave remote sensing of soil moisture for hydrologic applications

W Wagner, G Blöschl, P Pampaloni, JC Calvet… - Hydrology …, 2007 - iwaponline.com
Microwave remote sensing of soil moisture has been an active area of research since the
1970s but has yet found little use in operational applications. Given recent advances in …

On the soil roughness parameterization problem in soil moisture retrieval of bare surfaces from synthetic aperture radar

NEC Verhoest, H Lievens, W Wagner, J Álvarez-Mozos… - Sensors, 2008 - mdpi.com
Synthetic Aperture Radar has shown its large potential for retrieving soil moisture maps at
regional scales. However, since the backscattered signal is determined by several surface …

L-band Microwave Emission of the Biosphere (L-MEB) Model: Description and calibration against experimental data sets over crop fields

JP Wigneron, Y Kerr, P Waldteufel, K Saleh… - Remote Sensing of …, 2007 - Elsevier
In the near future, the SMOS (Soil Moisture and Ocean Salinity) mission will provide global
maps of surface soil moisture (SM). The SMOS baseline payload is an L-band (1.4 GHz) two …

A new empirical model to retrieve soil moisture and roughness from C-band radar data

M Zribi, M Dechambre - Remote Sensing of Environment, 2003 - Elsevier
A new empirical model for the retrieval, at a field scale, of the bare soil moisture content and
the surface roughness characteristics from radar measurements is proposed. The derivation …

The current and potential operational uses of remote sensing to aid decisions on drought exceptional circumstances in Australia: a review

TR McVicar, DLB Jupp - Agricultural systems, 1998 - Elsevier
This paper reviews how remote sensing is being used, and can be used, to assist in
providing support for the decision-making process for the declaration of areas experiencing …

Remote sensing applications to hydrology: soil moisture

TJ Jackson, J Schmugge… - Hydrological Sciences …, 1996 - Taylor & Francis
Passive and active microwave remote sensing instruments are capable of measuring the
surface soil moisture (0–5 cm) and can be implemented on high altitude platforms, eg …

Mapping the spatial variation of soil water content at the field scale with different ground penetrating radar techniques

L Weihermüller, JA Huisman, S Lambot, M Herbst… - Journal of …, 2007 - Elsevier
Two ground penetrating radar (GPR) techniques were used to estimate the shallow soil
water content at the field scale. The first technique is based on the ground wave velocity …

Soil water content

CMK Gardner, D Robinson, K Blyth… - Soil and environmental …, 2000 - taylorfrancis.com
Measurement of the water content of soil and the unsaturated zone is fundamental to many
investigations in agriculture, horticulture, forestry, ecology, hydrology, civil engineering …

[图书][B] Remote sensing in water resources management: the state of the art.

WGM Bastiaanssen - 1998 - cabidigitallibrary.org
Five chapters focus on the applications of remote sensing that support water resources
management in irrigated agriculture and summarize the major achievements. Chapter 1 …

On constraining the predictions of a distributed model: The incorporation of fuzzy estimates of saturated areas into the calibration process

SW Franks, P Gineste, KJ Beven… - Water Resources …, 1998 - Wiley Online Library
Distributed hydrological models are generally overparameterized, resulting in the possibility
of multiple parameterizations from many areas of the parameter space providing acceptable …