A satellite-driven approach to estimating delivered irrigation water via SM-based inversion algorithm: A case study of the Doroodzan irrigation district, Iran
2026
Afrasiabikia, Peyman, Parvaresh Rizi, Atefeh, Brocca, Luca
Brightness Temperature, Surface Soil Moisture
A review of forward modelling and retrieval approaches for forest soil
2026
Colliander, Andreas, Schwank, Mike, Zhou, Yiwen, Kurum, Mehmet, Vittucci, Cristina, Tsang, Leung, Roy, Alex, Berg, Aaron
Brightness Temperature, Surface Soil Moisture, Gross Primary Production (gpp), Heterotrophic Respiration (rh), NET ECOSYSTEM CO2 EXCHANGE (NEE), Soil Organic Carbon (SOC)
A novel active-microwave method to estimate 1 km vegetation optical depth over the Heihe River Basin
2026
Lu, Zhixuan, Fan, Lei, De Lannoy, Gabrielle, Bai, Xiaojing, Liu, Xiangzhuo, Xing, Zanpin, Zhou, Zhilan, Zeng, Jiangyuan, Frappart, Frederic, Peng, Jian, Che, Tao, Geng, Liying, Li, Xiaojun, Li, Xin, Baghdadi, Nicolas, Wigneron, Jean-Pierre
Vegetation Index , Normalized Difference Vegetation Index (NDVI), Enhanced Vegetation Index (EVI), Leaf Characteristics, Photosynthetically Active Radiation , Leaf Area Index (LAI) , Fraction Of Absorbed Photosynthetically Active Radiation (fapar), Surface Soil Moisture
A time series deep learning algorithm for soil moisture retrieval from Sentinel-1 data using Transformer
2026
Ndekelu, Lina N., Zhang, Hankui K., Bwangoy, Jean Robert, Henebry, Geoffrey M., Maimaitijiang, Maitiniyazi, Zhang, Xiaoyang, Lumbuenamo, Raymond, Liu, Pang-Wei, Gao, Lun
Brightness Temperature, SIGMA NAUGHT, Surface Soil Moisture
A new, long-term root zone soil moisture dataset for operational agricultural drought monitoring over Africa
2026
Maidment, Ross I., Quaife, Tristan, Pinnington, Ewan, Black, Emily, Ejigu, Amsalework, Kumar, Dhirendra, Thomas, Simon
Surface Pressure, Heat Flux, Longwave Radiation, Shortwave Radiation, Air Temperature, Specific Humidity, Evapotranspiration , Wind Speed , Rain , Snow, Soil Moisture/Water Content , Soil Temperature, Land Surface Temperature , Snow Cover , Snow Depth , Snow Water Equivalent , Runoff , Surface Temperature , Humidity , Surface Winds , Precipitation Rate , Ground Water , Root Zone Soil Moisture, Surface Soil Moisture
RegreSSM: A novel software tool for downscaling the SMAP L3 soil
2026
Petropoulos, George P., Detsikas, Spyridon E., Anagnostopoulos, Vasileios, Lekka, Christina
Surface Soil Moisture, Brightness Temperature
Synergistic impact of simultaneously assimilating radar-and radiometer-based soil moisture retrievals on the performance of numerical weather prediction systems
2026
Kwon, Yonghwan, Jun, Sanghee, Kim, Hyunglok, Seol, Kyung-Hee, Kwon, In-Hyuk, Kim, Eunkyu, Cho, Sujeong
Brightness Temperature, Surface Soil Moisture
Shrinking groundwater in India's population epicentre
2026
Mizan, Syed Adil, Paswan, Abhilash K., Tiwari, V. M.
Land Use/Land Cover Classification , Brightness Temperature, Surface Soil Moisture
Satellite-Based Fraction of Available Water Reveals Soil Moisture Deficits Preceding Major Wildfires
2026
Goffin, Benjamin D., Fernandez, Alfonso, Etchanchu, Jordi, Fang, Bin, Lakshmi, Venkataraman
Vegetation Water Content, Soil Moisture/Water Content , Skin Temperature, Fire Ecology, Biomass Burning, Wildfires , Fire Occurrence, Burned Area, Root Zone Soil Moisture, Surface Soil Moisture, RADAR IMAGERY, Terrain Elevation , Digital Elevation/Terrain Model (DEM) , Land Use/Land Cover Classification , Topographical Relief Maps, Plant Phenology, Enhanced Vegetation Index (EVI), Brightness Temperature, SIGMA NAUGHT
Soil moisture buffers the impact of precipitation variability on ecosystem productivity
2026
Wang, Huiqi, Bassiouni, Maoya, Kang, Yanghui, Rifai, Sami W., Gherardi, Laureano A., Ukkola, Anna, Keenan, Trevor F.
Soil Classification, Soil Depth, Soil Porosity, Soil Texture, Terrain Elevation , Brightness Temperature, Surface Soil Moisture, Photosynthesis, Primary Production, Vegetation Productivity, Land Use/Land Cover Classification , Vegetation Index , Normalized Difference Vegetation Index (NDVI), Enhanced Vegetation Index (EVI), Root Zone Soil Moisture
Spatio-temporal HYDRUS-1D soil water balance simulations as support for precision irrigation in North-Eastern Germany
2026
Wenzel, Jan Lukas, Conrad, Christopher, Mahmood, Talha, Kunz, Matthias, Volk, Martin, Pohlitz, Julia
Surface Soil Moisture
Spatiotemporal evaluation of downscaled and native high-resolution satellite soil moisture products
2026
Stradiotti, Pietro, Preimesberger, Wolfgang, Piles, Maria, Fan, Dong, Raml, Bernhard, Peng, Jian, Dorigo, Wouter
Surface Soil Moisture
Satellite-based detection of agricultural flash droughts and associated vegetation responses in southeastern South America
2026
Masaro, Lumila, Lovino, Miguel A, Pierrestegui, M Josefina, Muller, Gabriela V, Dorigo, Wouter
Fraction Of Absorbed Photosynthetically Active Radiation (fapar), Leaf Area Index (LAI) , Photosynthesis, Primary Production, Vegetation Productivity, Evapotranspiration , Latent Heat Flux, Reflectance , Root Zone Soil Moisture, Surface Soil Moisture
Validation of high-resolution surface soil moisture time series retrieved by means of SAR interferometry
2026
De Zan, Francesco, Filippucci, Paolo, Brocca, Luca
Surface Soil Moisture
Transferring soil moisture estimation skills to evapotranspiration and
2026
Feng, Huihui, Zhou, Jianhong, Wu, Zhiyong, Dong, Jianzhi, Zhao, Long, Brocca, Luca, He, Hai
Carbon , Cation Exchange Capacity, Organic Matter, Surface Soil Moisture
An operational global L-band soil moisture and vegetation optical depth dataset from optimized 40 SMOS brightness temperatures for 20102024
2026
Xing, Zanpin, Li, Xiaojun, Frappart, Frederic, De Lannoy, Gabrielle, Jagdhuber, Thomas, Peng, Jian, Fan, Lei, Ma, Hongliang, Karthikeyan, Lanka, Liu, Xiangzhuo, Wang, Mengjia, Zhao, Lin, Liu, Yongqin, Wigneron, Jean-Pierre
Land Use/Land Cover Classification , Vegetation Index , Normalized Difference Vegetation Index (NDVI), Enhanced Vegetation Index (EVI), Plant Phenology, Brightness Temperature, Surface Soil Moisture
Analyzing meteorological effects on crop yield and yield prediction through machine learning with different data partitioning approaches: A case study from Czech Republic
2026
Petrovic, Bojana, Paluba, Daniel, Nofrizal, Adenan Yandra, Kucera, Ales
Root Zone Soil Moisture, Surface Soil Moisture
A Physics-Based Feature XGBoost Model for Frozen Ground Surface Reflectance Reconstruction on the Tibetan Plateau
2026
Wang, Bo, Li, Kerui, Sheng, Qinghong, Li, Jun, Zhang, Yuejie, Ling, Xiao, Liu, Xiang, Guo, Yichen, Wang, Yihui, Zhu, Yuxin
Brightness Temperature, Surface Soil Moisture
A Semiempirical Modeling for Soil Moisture Retrieval Using High-Resolution SAR Data
2026
Xu, Xiaolan, Yueh, Simon, Huang, Huanting, Wang, Tianlin, Das, Narendra, Entekhabi, Dara, Colliander, Andreas
Surface Soil Moisture
A SMAP-Anchored Sentinel-1 Change Detection Method for 100 m Surface Soil Moisture Mapping with Vegetation-Conditioned Constraints
2026
Wang, Yunjia, Sun, Hao, Pei, Haoyu, Gao, Jinhua, Xu, Zhenheng, Wang, Yuxin, Wu, Dan
Brightness Temperature, Surface Soil Moisture, SIGMA NAUGHT
Age-driven shifts in functional composition and diversity shape ecosystem service provision in agroforestry systems
2026
Barbosa, Anthony, Barbosa, Beatriz, Sousa, Tailane Silva, Fares, Ana Luisa Biondi Lima, do Espirito Santo Barbosa, Euciney, Ribeiro, Sabina Cerruto, Schmidt, Fernando Augusto, Teodoro, Grazielle Sales
Root Zone Soil Moisture, Surface Soil Moisture
A global dataset of land-atmosphere coupling metrics based on observations for evaluating Earth system models
2026
Tavakoli, Nazanin, Dirmeyer, Paul A.
Surface Soil Moisture, Brightness Temperature
A global, daily carbon budget for terrestrial ecosystems constrained by satellite observations of soil moisture: The SMAP Level 4 carbon product at ten years
2026
Endsley, K. Arthur, Kimball, John S., Reichle, Rolf H., Ardizzone, Joseph V., Kundig, Tobias, Colligan, Thomas, Heinke, Jens, Kato, Etsushi, Knauer, Jurgen, Ma, Lei, Nutzel, Tobias, Sun, Qing, Yuan, Wenping
Leaf Characteristics, Photosynthetically Active Radiation , Leaf Area Index (LAI) , Fraction Of Absorbed Photosynthetically Active Radiation (fapar), Root Zone Soil Moisture, Surface Soil Moisture, Gross Primary Production (gpp), Heterotrophic Respiration (rh), NET ECOSYSTEM CO2 EXCHANGE (NEE), Soil Organic Carbon (SOC), Atmospheric Carbon Dioxide, Respiration Rate, Air Temperature, Surface Winds , Net Radiation, Heat Flux
A Multi-temporal-scale Framework for Estimating Sub-Daily Soil Moisture by Fusing AMSR2 and SMAP Datasets
2026
Wang, Mengran, Song, Peilin, Zheng, Jingyao, Zhao, Tianjie, Zhao, Haigen, Huang, Jingfeng
Surface Soil Moisture, Brightness Temperature
Author Correction: Evolutionary history drives organ-specific variability in plant non-structural carbohydrates (Nature Ecology & Evolution, (2026), 10.1038/s41559-026-03129-8)
2026
Xu, Wei-Ying, Gessler, Arthur, Penuelas, Josep, Zohner, Constantin M., Dietze, Michael C., Sardans, Jordi, Hartmann, Henrik, Detto, Matteo, Wu, Jin, Martin, Adam R., Crowther, Thomas, Mo, Li-Dong, Signori-Muller, Caroline, Schweiger, Andreas H., Zhang, Pei-Pei, Wu, Feng-Qi, Yang, Nan, Luo, Yun-Peng, Ma, Su-Hui, Ni, Xiao-Feng, Ji, Cheng-Jun, Chen, Guo-Ping, Vallicrosa, Helena, Smith, Nicholas G., Luo, Yi-Qi, Atkin, Owen K., Swenson, Nathan G., Kattge, Jens, Reich, Peter B., Yan, Zheng-Bing
Surface Soil Moisture