A dynamic approach for evaluating coarse scale satellite soil moisture products

A Loew, F Schlenz - Hydrology and Earth System Sciences, 2011 - hess.copernicus.org
Validating coarse scale remote sensing soil moisture products requires a comparison of
gridded data to point-like ground measurements. The necessary aggregation of in situ …

Assessment of soil surface roughness statistics for microwave remote sensing applications using a simple photogrammetric acquisition system

P Marzahn, D Rieke-Zapp, R Ludwig - ISPRS journal of photogrammetry …, 2012 - Elsevier
In this paper we present a simple and efficient method to measure soil surface roughness in
an agricultural environment. With the deployed system one can generate digital surface …

Uncertainty assessment of the SMOS validation in the upper Danube catchment

F Schlenz, JT Dall'Amico, A Loew… - IEEE Transactions on …, 2011 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
The validation of coarse-scale remote sensing products like SMOS (ESA's Soil Moisture and
Ocean Salinity mission) L2 soil moisture or L1c brightness temperature data requires the …

Characterization of rape field microwave emission and implications to surface soil moisture retrievals

F Schlenz, J Fallmann, P Marzahn, A Loew, W Mauser - Remote Sensing, 2012 - mdpi.com
In the course of Soil Moisture and Ocean Salinity (SMOS) mission calibration and validation
activities, a ground based L-band radiometer ELBARA II was situated at the test site Puch in …

The SMOS validation campaign 2010 in the upper danube catchment: A data set for studies of soil moisture, brightness temperature, and their spatial variability over a …

JT Dall'Amico, F Schlenz, A Loew… - IEEE transactions on …, 2012 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
The Soil Moisture and Ocean Salinity mission has been launched by the European Space
Agency (ESA) in November 2009. It is the worldwide first satellite dedicated to retrieve soil …

SMOS soil moisture validation: Status at the upper Danube Cal/Val site eight months after launch

JT Dall'Amico, F Schlenz, A Loew… - 2010 IEEE International …, 2010 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
The validation of SMOS L2 soil moisture data requires the maintenance of long-term soil
moisture monitoring sites. One such site is the Upper Danube SMOS validation site situated …

[PDF][PDF] Multiscale analysis of soil moisture using satellite and aircraft microwave remote sensing, in situ measurements and numerical modelling

JT Dall'Amico - 2012 - edoc.ub.uni-muenchen.de
Surface soil moisture is located at the interface between the land surface and the
atmosphere and thus of great importance for the mass and energy fluxes to and from the …