Description
Satellite Soil Moisture Retrieval: Techniques and Applications offers readers a better understanding of the scientific underpinnings, development, and application of soil moisture retrieval techniques and their applications for environmental modeling and management, bringing together a collection of recent developments and rigorous applications of soil moisture retrieval techniques from optical and infrared datasets, such as the universal triangle method, vegetation indices based approaches, empirical models, and microwave techniques, particularly by utilizing earth observation datasets such as IRS III, MODIS, Landsat7, Landsat8, SMOS, AMSR-e, AMSR2 and the upcoming SMAP.Through its coverage of a wide variety of soil moisture retrieval applications, including drought, flood, irrigation scheduling, weather forecasting, climate change, precipitation forecasting, and several others, this is the first book to promote synergistic and multidisciplinary activities among scientists and users working in the hydrometeorological sciences.- Demystifies soil moisture retrieval and prediction- Links soil moisture retrieval techniques with new satellite missions for earth and environmental science oriented problems- Written to be accessible to a wider range of professionals with a common interest in geo-spatial techniques, remote sensing, sustainable water resource development, and earth and environmental issues
Table of Contents
Section IIntroduction1. Soil Moisture from Space: Techniques and LimitationsY.H. Kerr, J.-P. Wigneron, A. Al Bitar, A. Mialon and P.K. Srivastava2. Available Data Sets and Satellites for Terrestrial SoilMoisture EstimationP.K. Srivastava, V. Pandey, S. Suman, M. Gupta and T. IslamSection IIOptical and Infrared Techniques & SynergiesBetween them3. Soil Moisture Retrievals Using Optical/TIR MethodsP. Rahimzadeh-Bajgiran and A. Berg4. Optical/Thermal-Based Techniques for SubsurfaceSoil Moisture EstimationM. Holzman and R. Rivas5. Spatiotemporal Estimates of Surface Soil Moisturefrom Space Using the Ts/VI Feature SpaceG.P. Petropoulos, G. Ireland, H. Griffiths, T. Islam, D. Kalivas,V. Anagnostopoulos, C. Hodges and P.K. Srivastava6. Spatial Downscaling of Passive Microwave Data WithVisible-to-Infrared Information for High-ResolutionSoil Moisture MappingM. Piles and N. Sánchez7. Soil Moisture Retrieved From a Combined Optical andPassive Microwave Approach: Theory and ApplicationsC. Mattar, A. Santamaría-Artigas1, J. A. Sobrino, J.C. Jiménez – MuñozSection IIIMicrowave Soil Moisture Retrieval Techniques8. Nonparametric Model for the Retrieval of SoilMoisture by Microwave Remote SensingD.K. Gupta, R. Prasad, P.K. Srivastava and T. Islam9. Temperature-Dependent Spectroscopic DielectricModel at 0.05–16 GHz for a Thawed and FrozenAlaskan Organic SoilV. Mironov and I. Savin10. Active and Passive Microwave Remote SensingSynergy for Soil Moisture EstimationR. Akbar, N. Das, D. Entekhabi and M. Moghaddam11. Intercomparison of Soil Moisture Retrievals From InSitu, ASAR, and ECV SM Data Sets Over DifferentEuropean SitesB. Barrett, C. Pratola, A. Gruber and E. DwyerSection IVAdvanced Applications of Soil Moisture12. Use of Satellite Soil Moisture Products for theOperational Mitigation of Landslides Risk inCentral Italy13. Remotely Sensed Soil Moisture as a Key Variable inWildfires Prevention Services: Towards New PredictionTools Using SMOS and SMAP DataD. Chaparro, M. Piles and M. Vall-llossera14. Integrative Use of Near-Surface Satellite Soil Moistureand Precipitation for Estimation of ImprovedIrrigation Scheduling ParametersM. Gupta, P.K. Srivastava and T. Islam15. A Comparative Study on SMOS and NLDAS-2 SoilMoistures Over a Hydrological Basin—WithContinental Climate16. Continental Scale Monitoring of Subdaily and DailyEvapotranspiration Enhanced by the Assimilation ofSurface Soil Moisture Derived from Thermal InfraredGeostationary Data17. Soil Moisture Deficit Estimation Through SMOS SoilMoisture and MODIS Land Surface TemperatureP.K. Srivastava, T. Islam, S.K. Singh, M. Gupta, George P. Petropoulos,D.K. Gupta, W.Z. Wan Jaafar and R. PrasadSection VFuture Challenges in Soil Moisture Retrieval andApplications18. Soil Moisture Retrievals Based on Active andPassive Microwave Data: State-of-the-Art andOperational ApplicationsJ. Munõz-Sabater, A. Al Bitar and L. Brocca19. Emerging and Potential Future Applications ofSatellite-Based Soil Moisture ProductsE. Tebbs, F. Gerard, A. Petrie and E. De Witte
