Advancements in earth observation for water resources monitoring and management in Africa: a comprehensive review

T Dube, D Seaton, C Shoko, C Mbow - Journal of Hydrology, 2023 - Elsevier
This paper provides an overview of the progress made in remote sensing of water resources
in Africa, focusing on various applications such as precipitation estimation, land surface …

Data fusion in agriculture: Resolving ambiguities and closing data gaps

JGA Barbedo - Sensors, 2022 - mdpi.com
Acquiring useful data from agricultural areas has always been somewhat of a challenge, as
these are often expansive, remote, and vulnerable to weather events. Despite these …

Multi-layer high-resolution soil moisture estimation using machine learning over the United States

L Karthikeyan, AK Mishra - Remote Sensing of Environment, 2021 - Elsevier
The lack of proper understanding of multi-layer soil moisture (SM) profile (signals) remains a
persistent challenge in sustainable agricultural water management and food security …

A new SMAP soil moisture and vegetation optical depth product (SMAP-IB): Algorithm, assessment and inter-comparison

X Li, JP Wigneron, L Fan, F Frappart, SH Yueh… - Remote Sensing of …, 2022 - Elsevier
Passive microwave remote sensing at L-band (1.4 GHz) provides an unprecedented
opportunity to estimate global surface soil moisture (SM) and vegetation water content (via …

Soil moisture forecast for smart irrigation: The primetime for machine learning

R Togneri, DF dos Santos, G Camponogara… - Expert Systems with …, 2022 - Elsevier
The rise of the Internet of Things allowed higher spatial–temporal resolution soil moisture
data captured through in situ sensing. Such abundance of data enables machine learning …

A reliable and adaptive spatiotemporal data fusion method for blending multi-spatiotemporal-resolution satellite images

W Shi, D Guo, H Zhang - Remote Sensing of Environment, 2022 - Elsevier
Spatiotemporal image fusion is a potential way to resolve the constraint between the spatial
and temporal resolutions of satellite images and has been developed rapidly in recent …

A research landscape bibliometric analysis on climate change for last decades: Evidence from applications of machine learning

SSM Ajibade, A Zaidi, FV Bekun, AO Adediran… - Heliyon, 2023 - cell.com
Climate change (CC) is one of the greatest threats to human health, safety, and the
environment. Given its current and future impacts, numerous studies have employed …

Gridded livestock density database and spatial trends for Kazakhstan

V Kolluru, R John, S Saraf, J Chen, B Hankerson… - Scientific Data, 2023 - nature.com
Livestock rearing is a major source of livelihood for food and income in dryland Asia.
Increasing livestock density (LSKD) affects ecosystem structure and function, amplifies the …

ROBOT: A spatiotemporal fusion model toward seamless data cube for global remote sensing applications

S Chen, J Wang, P Gong - Remote Sensing of Environment, 2023 - Elsevier
Dense time-series high-resolution satellite images are extremely valuable for long-term
monitoring of land dynamics. Spatiotemporal fusion (STF) techniques have been developed …

Drought assessment of China in 2002–2017 based on a comprehensive drought index

Y Xu, X Zhu, X Cheng, Z Gun, J Lin, J Zhao… - Agricultural and Forest …, 2022 - Elsevier
Drought, as an extreme natural disaster event, can cause or exacerbate water, food, and
national security hazards. However, because of differences in the regional characteristics …