Keywords:
Soil moisture.
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Electronic books.
Type of Medium:
Online Resource
Pages:
1 online resource (441 pages)
Edition:
1st ed.
ISBN:
9780128033890
URL:
https://ebookcentral.proquest.com/lib/geomar/detail.action?docID=4526735
Language:
English
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Front Cover -- Satellite Soil Moisture Retrieval: Techniques and Applications -- Copyright -- Dedication -- Contents -- List of Contributors -- Author Biographies -- Preface -- Acknowledgments -- About the Cover -- Section I: Introduction -- Chapter 1: Soil Moisture from Space: Techniques and Limitations -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Means of Measuring Soil Moisture -- 2.1. Remotely Sensed Soil Moisture, The Main Approaches -- 2.2. Microwave as a Tool for Soil Moisture Monitoring: Current Status -- 3. Satellite Missions -- 4. Soil Moisture Retrieval From Space Using Passive Microwaves -- 4.1. Surface Soil Moisture -- 4.2. Root-Zone Soil Moisture -- 5. Way Forward -- 6. Caveats -- 7. Conclusions and Perspectives -- References -- Chapter 2: Available Data Sets and Satellites for Terrestrial Soil Moisture Estimation -- 1. Introduction -- 2. In Situ Data Sets for Soil Moisture -- 2.1. International Soil Moisture Network -- 2.2. Field Campaigns -- 2.2.1. Soil Moisture Experiments Series -- 2.2.1.1. Soil Moisture Experiment 2002 -- 2.2.1.2. Soil Moisture Experiment 2003 -- 2.2.1.3. Soil Moisture Experiment 2004 -- 2.2.1.4. Soil Moisture Experiment 2005 -- 2.2.2. Canadian Experiment for Soil Moisture in 2010 -- 2.2.3. Soil Moisture Active Passive Validation Experiment -- 2.2.3.1. SMAPVEX08 -- 2.2.3.2. SMAPVEX12 -- 2.2.4. Soil Moisture Active Passive Experiments -- 2.3. FLUXNET sites -- 3. Satellite Data Sets for Soil Moisture -- 3.1. The Scanning Multichannel Microwave Radiometer (SMMR) -- 3.2. Advanced Microwave Scanning Radiometer for Earth Observing System (AMSR-E/2) -- 3.3. Advanced Scatterometer (ASCAT) -- 3.4. Soil Moisture and Ocean Salinity (SMOS) -- 3.5. Soil Moisture Active and Passive (SMAP) Mission -- 4. Conclusion -- References -- Section II: Optical and Infrared Techniques & -- Synergies Between them.
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Chapter 3: Soil Moisture Retrievals Using Optical/TIR Methods -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Optical/TIR Model History and Concept -- 2.1. History -- 2.2. The Ts/VI Concept -- 3. Optical/TIR Models Used for SM Estimation -- 3.1. Direct Estimation of SM From Ts/VI Space -- 3.2. Models Based on Ts/VI and Empirical Equations -- 4. Case Study: Estimation of SM Using Optical/TIR RS in the Canadian Prairies -- 4.1. Introduction -- 4.2. Materials and Methods -- 4.2.1. Study Area and Data -- 4.2.2. Methodology -- 4.3. Results -- 4.3.1. Comparing EF Estimations Retrieved From Three Different Approaches -- 4.3.2. SM Estimation From Evaporative Fraction -- 4.3.3. Correlations Between Estimated SM and Field Data -- 5. Summary and Future Outlook -- References -- Chapter 4: Optical/Thermal-Based Techniques for Subsurface Soil Moisture Estimation -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Methodology -- 2.1. Study Area -- 2.2. Satellite Data, Estimation of TVDI, and Measurements -- 3. Results and Discussion -- 3.1. TVDI Parameters -- 3.2. Comparison of TVDI and Subsurface Soil Moisture Measurements -- 4. Conclusions -- References -- Chapter 5: Spatiotemporal Estimates of Surface Soil Moisture from Space Using the Ts/VI Feature Space -- 1. Introduction -- 2. The Ts/VI Domain -- 3. Experimental Set Up and Data Sets -- 3.1. CarboEurope In Situ Measurements -- 3.2. The Advanced Spaceborne Thermal Emission and Reflection Radiometer (ASTER) Imagery -- 3.3. The Advanced Along Track Scanning Radiometer (AATSR) Imagery -- 3.4. The SimSphere Land Biosphere Model -- 4. Methodology -- 4.1. Preprocessing -- 4.2. ``Triangle´´ Implementation -- 4.3. Coupling EO With the SVAT Model to Retrieve SMC -- 5. Results -- 6. Discussion -- 7. Conclusions -- Acknowledgments -- References -- Chapter 6: Spatial Downscaling of Passive Microwave Data With Visible-to-Infrared Information for High-Resolution Soil Mo.
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1. Introduction -- 2. A Semiempirical Model to Capture the Synergy of Passive Microwaves With Optical Data at Different Spatial Scales -- 3. High-Resolution Soil Moisture Mapping From Space -- 3.1. Long-Term Validation Over the Central Part of the Duero Basin -- 3.2. Exploring the Use of SWIR-Based Vegetation Indices to Disaggregate SMOS Observations to 500m -- 4. Airborne Field Experiments -- 4.1. Airborne Platform for Simultaneous Thermal, VNIR Hyperspectral and Microwave L-Band Acquisions: Proof-of-Concept and... -- 4.2. Airborne GNSS-R and Landsat 8 for Soil Moisture Estimation -- 5. Future Lines and Recommendations -- Acknowledgments -- References -- Section III: Microwave Soil Moisture Retrieval Techniques -- Chapter 7: Soil Moisture Retrieved From a Combined Optical and Passive Microwave Approach: Theory and Applications -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Radiative Transfer Equation -- 2.1. Tau-Omega Model -- 2.2. Effective Temperature, Single Dispersion and Vegetation Optical Depth -- 2.3. A Combined Optical-Passive Microwave Approach -- 2.4. Case Study-Optical Passive Microwave at in-situ level -- 2.5. Case Study-Optical Passive Microwave at Regional Scale -- 2.5.1. Study Area -- 2.5.2. Data -- 2.5.3. Results -- 2.5.4. Discussion -- 2.6. Toward a Thermal Infrared Contribution in the Optical-Passive Microwave Approach -- 3. Conclusions -- Acknowledgments -- References -- Chapter 8: Nonparametric Model for the Retrieval of Soil Moisture by Microwave Remote Sensing -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Material and Methods -- 2.1. Instrumentation Setup and Observations -- 2.2. Radial Basis Function Artificial Neural Network -- 2.3. Performance Indices -- 3. Results and Discussion -- 3.1. Assessment of Data Sets -- 3.2. Estimation of Soil Moisture Using the RBFANN -- 4. Conclusions -- References.
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Chapter 9: Temperature-Dependent Spectroscopic Dielectric Model at 0.05-16 GHz for a Thawed and Frozen Alaskan Organic Soil -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Soil Samples and Measurement Procedures -- 3. Concept of a Multirelaxation Spectroscopic Dielectric Model -- 4. Retrieving the Parameters of the Multirelaxation Spectroscopic Dielectric Model -- 5. The Temperature-Dependent Multirelaxation Spectroscopic Dielectric Model -- 6. Evaluation of the TD MRSDM -- 7. Conclusions -- References -- Chapter 10: Active and Passive Microwave Remote Sensing Synergy for Soil Moisture Estimation -- 1. Introduction -- 1.1. Measurement Spatial Resolution -- 1.2. Soil Moisture Sensitivity and Estimation Accuracy -- 2. SR CAP Soil Moisture Retrieval -- 3. MR CAP Soil Moisture Retrieval -- 3.1. Multi-Temporal and Multi-Scale Method -- 3.2. Probabilistic and Machine Learning Techniques -- 4. Forward Electromagnetic Scattering and Emission Model Considerations -- 5. Further Discussions -- References -- Chapter 11: Intercomparison of Soil Moisture Retrievals From In Situ, ASAR, and ECV SM Data Sets Over Different European ... -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Materials and Methods -- 2.1. In Situ Soil Moisture Observations -- 2.2. ECV Soil Moisture Observations -- 2.3. ASAR Soil Moisture Observations -- 2.4. Characterization of Errors -- 3. Results and Discussion -- 3.1. Time Series Temporal Analysis -- 3.2. Seasonal Analysis -- 4. Conclusions -- Acknowledgments -- References -- Section IV: Advanced Applications of Soil Moisture -- Chapter 12: Use of Satellite Soil Moisture Products for the Operational Mitigation of Landslides Risk in Central Italy -- 1. Introduction -- 2. PRESSCA Early Warning System -- 3. Case Study and Data Sets -- 3.1. Study Area and Ground Meteorological Observations -- 3.2. Satellite Soil Moisture Observations -- 4. Results and Discussion.
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4.1. Comparison Between Satellite, In Situ, and Modeled Soil Moisture Data -- 4.2. Impact of Soil Moisture Condition on Landslide Hazard -- 5. Conclusions and Future Perspectives -- Acknowledgments -- References -- Chapter 13: Remotely Sensed Soil Moisture as a Key Variable in Wildfires Prevention Services: Towards New Prediction Tool... -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Remotely Sensed Soil Moisture, Climate Change, and Fire Risk -- 2.1. Remote Sensing of the Earth's Soil Moisture -- 2.2. Remotely Sensed Soil Moisture, Climate Change, and Fire Risk -- 3. The Role of Soil Moisture in Forest Fires -- 3.1. Droughts and High Temperatures Lead to Extreme Forest Fires Events -- 3.2. Dead Fuels Moisture Is a Key Variable in Forest Fire Risk Indices -- 4. Linking Remotely Sensed Soil Moisture With Forest Fires Ignition and Propagation -- 5. Fire Risk Assessment in the Iberian Peninsula Using SMOS Data -- 5.1. New Fire Risk Maps Over the Iberian Peninsula Based on SMOS Data -- 5.2. Fire Risk Maps Availability and Operational Applications -- 6. Conclusions -- Acknowledgments -- References -- Chapter 14: Integrative Use of Near-Surface Satellite Soil Moisture and Precipitation for Estimation of Improved Irrigati... -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Material and Methods -- 2.1. Study Area -- 2.2. Ground Validation Data -- 2.3. Satellite Data -- 2.4. Numerical Modeling -- 2.4.1. Initial and Boundary Conditions -- 2.4.2. Soil Parameters -- 2.5. Evaluation Criteria -- 3. Results and Discussion -- 3.1. Comparison of TRMM Rainfall With Ground-Based Rainfall Measurements -- 3.2. Soil Hydraulic Parameters -- 3.3. Soil Moisture Calibration and Validation -- 4. Conclusions -- Acknowledgments -- References -- Chapter 15: A Comparative Study on SMOS and NLDAS-2 Soil Moistures Over a Hydrological Basin-With Continental Climate -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Data and Methodology.
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2.1. Study Area and Data Sets.
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