Global daily 9 km remotely sensed soil moisture (20152025) with microwave radiative transfer-guided learning
2026
Feng, Sijia, Li, Aoyang, Zhou, Rui, Butterbach-Bahl, Klaus, Guan, Kaiyu, Jin, Zhenong, Looms, Majken C., Wang, Sherrie, Igel, Christian, Treat, Claire, Olesen, Jrgen Eivind, Wang, Sheng
Brightness Temperature, Surface Soil Moisture, Air Temperature, Soil Moisture/Water Content , Soil Temperature, Vegetation Index , Normalized Difference Vegetation Index (NDVI), Enhanced Vegetation Index (EVI), Land Use/Land Cover Classification
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 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 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
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
Assessing the Regional Accuracy of Arctic Satellite Sea Surface Salinity: Insights from Reanalyses and In Situ Observations
2026
Sanchez-Urrea, Maria, Umbert, Marta, Gali, Marti, De Andres, Eva, Garcia-Espriu, Aina, Gonzalez-Gambau, Veronica, Olmedo, Estrella, McPherson, Rebecca, Gabarro, Carolina
Salinity , Salinity , Surface Winds
Assessing the impact of hurricanes on the carbon cycle using SMAP satellite and in-situ observations: Role of land cover and precipitation
2026
Ray, Ram L., Kumar, Nirmal, Gurau, Sanjita, Raza, Ali, Khan, Nawab, Singh, Sudhir Kumar, Kayode, Esther Tosin, He, Yiping
Respiration Rate, Primary Production, Carbon , Vegetation Index , Normalized Difference Vegetation Index (NDVI), Enhanced Vegetation Index (EVI), Surface Soil Moisture, Soil Organic Carbon (SOC)
Assessing SMAP for enhanced wildfire danger prediction in boreal-Arctic ecosystems
2026
Bourgeau-Chavez, Laura L., Hanes, Chelene, Billmire, Michael, Bosse, Karl, Battaglia, Michael J., Colliander, Andreas
Soil Temperature, Soil Moisture/Water Content , Soil Horizons/Profile, Soil Depth, Active Layer, Brightness Temperature, Surface Soil Moisture
Characteristics and influencing factors of soil moisture memory across
2026
Hong, Xu, Jia, Shaofeng, Zhu, Wenbin
Brightness Temperature, Surface Soil Moisture, Surface Pressure, Heat Flux, Longwave Radiation, Shortwave Radiation, Surface Temperature , Humidity , Evapotranspiration , Surface Winds , Rain , Precipitation Rate , Snow, Soil Moisture/Water Content , Soil Temperature, Land Surface Temperature , Snow Water Equivalent , Runoff
Consistent Soil Moisture and Vegetation Optical Depth from Relatively Calibrated SMOS Brightness Temperatures with SMAP
2026
Chaubell, Julian, Yueh, Simon H., Colliander, Andreas, Hayashi, Akiko, Bindlish, Rajat, Dunbar, R. Scott, Entekhabi, Dara, Asanuma, Jun, Berg, Aaron A., Coffin, Alisa, Cosh, Michael H., Flerchinger, Gerald, Fortuna, Ann-Marie, Collins, Chandra Holifield, Lychuk, Taras, Martinez-Fernandez, Jose, Moore, Kayla, Su, Zhongbo, Walker, Jeffrey
Brightness Temperature, Surface Soil Moisture, Vegetation Optical Depth
Comparing Sea Surface Salinity Variability from Spaceborne and In Situ
2026
Ferola, Antonino Ian, Sabia, Roberto, Cotroneo, Yuri, Cesarano, Cinzia, Olmedo, Estrella, Gonzalez-Gambau, Veronica, Wadhams, Peter, Aulicino, Giuseppe
Salinity
Harmonizing terrestrial carbon cycle observations over CONUS NEON sites: Assessing the information contributions of multiple data constraints
2026
Zhang, Dongchen, Li, Qianyu, Helgeson, Alexis, Serbin, Shawn P., Dietze, Michael
Root Zone Soil Moisture, Surface Soil Moisture, Plant Phenology, Enhanced Vegetation Index (EVI)
Microwave Remote Sensing and Risk Matrix Assessment for Climate Change
2026
Fontgalland, Isabel L. M., Fontgalland, Glauco
Brightness Temperature, Surface Soil Moisture
Meteorological to agricultural drought transitions compounded by heat waves in historical and future climates
2026
Short Gianotti, Daniel J., Gannon, Meriah J., Entekhabi, Dara
Brightness Temperature, Surface Soil Moisture, Tropopause, Surface Pressure, Air Temperature, Upper Air Temperature, Total Precipitable Water, Water Vapor, Cloud Height, Cloud Top Pressure, Cloud Top Temperature, Cloud Vertical Distribution, Emissivity, Sea Surface Temperature , Skin Temperature, Carbon Monoxide , Geopotential Height, Humidity , Water Vapor Profiles, Cloud Liquid Water/Ice, Outgoing Longwave Radiation, Methane, Atmospheric Ozone, Tropospheric Ozone, Sulfur Dioxide , Surface Temperature , Cloud Fraction
Intercomparison of Earth Observation products for hyper-resolution
2026
Garcia-Garcia, Almudena, Stradiotti, Pietro, Di Paolo, Federico, Filippucci, Paolo, Fischer, Milan, Orsag, Matej, Brocca, Luca, Peng, Jian, Dorigo, Wouter, Gruber, Alexander, Droppers, Bram, Wanders, Niko, Haag, Arjen, Weerts, Albrecht, Modiri, Ehsan, Rakovec, Oldrich, Frances, Felix, DallAmico, Matteo, Anderson, Martha, Hain, Christopher, Samaniego, Luis
Evapotranspiration , Photosynthesis, Primary Production, Latent Heat Flux, Surface Soil Moisture
Mapping Evapotranspiration and Diffuse Recharge via Variational
2026
Mahmood, Asif, Farhadi, Leila
Land Use/Land Cover Classification , Leaf Characteristics, Photosynthetically Active Radiation , Leaf Area Index (LAI) , Fraction Of Absorbed Photosynthetically Active Radiation (fapar), Surface Soil Moisture
Monitoring Flood Inundation Dynamics From Space
2026
Campo, C., Tamagnone, P., Choy, S., Tran, T. D., Schumann, G. J.P., Kuleshov, Y.
Atmospheric Water Vapor, Precipitation , Brightness Temperature, Surface Soil Moisture, Terrain Elevation , Vegetation Height, Reflectance , Reflectance
Optimizing Soil Moisture-Runoff Coupling Strength With Remotely Sensed
2026
Feng, Huihui, Zhou, Jianhong, Wu, Zhiyong, Dong, Jianzhi, Brocca, Luca, Zhao, Long, He, Hai, Fan, Hui
Carbon , Cation Exchange Capacity, Organic Matter, Land Use/Land Cover Classification , Surface Soil Moisture
Persistent Topographic Trapping of the Middle Atlantic Bight Shelfbreak Front
2026
Taenzer, Lukas L., Gawarkiewicz, Glen G., Plueddemann, Albert J.
Salinity
Post-disturbance ice-wedge degradation in Alaskan tundra fire scars using space-for-time substitution remote sensing
2026
Rettelbach, T, Bader, J, Groenke, B, Helm, V, Langer, M, Freytag, J-C, Grosse, G
Active Layer, Freeze/Thaw , Permafrost , Soil Depth
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
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
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