Satellite Soil Moisture Retrieval

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.

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Prashant K. Srivastava obtained his PhD from the Department of Civil Engineering at the University of Bristol in Bristol, UK,
and currently serves on the faculty at the Institute of Environment and Sustainable Development at Banaras Hindu University in
Varanasi, India. He formerly worked in the Hydrological Sciences Department at the NASA Goddard Space Flight Center and
is currently an investigator for several national and international projects. He has published 100+ papers, many books, and
several book chapters. He is also acting as an editorial board member of several reputed journals. Dr. George P. Petropoulos is Assistant Professor in Geoinformatics at the Department of Geography, Harokopio University of Athens Greece. His research focuses on the exploitation of geoinformation technology & geospatial data analysis techniques in geographical and environmental applications. He is author/co-author of over 110 articles, 40 book chapters, and has edited 6 books. He has developed collaborations with key scientists in his area of specialisation globally and his research & teaching work has received international recognition via several significant awards and research funding.

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Section I

Introduction

1. Soil Moisture from Space: Techniques and Limitations

   Y.H. Kerr, J.-P. Wigneron, A. Al Bitar, A. Mialon and P.K. Srivastava

2. Available Data Sets and Satellites for Terrestrial Soil

   Moisture Estimation

   P.K. Srivastava, V. Pandey, S. Suman, M. Gupta and T. Islam ** Section II

   Optical and Infrared Techniques & Synergies

   Between them **

3. Soil Moisture Retrievals Using Optical/TIR Methods

   P. Rahimzadeh-Bajgiran and A. Berg

4. Optical/Thermal-Based Techniques for Subsurface

   Soil Moisture Estimation

   M. Holzman and R. Rivas

5. Spatiotemporal Estimates of Surface Soil Moisture

   from Space Using the Ts/VI Feature Space

   G.P. Petropoulos, G. Ireland, H. Griffiths, T. Islam, D. Kalivas,

   V. Anagnostopoulos, C. Hodges and P.K. Srivastava

6. Spatial Downscaling of Passive Microwave Data With

   Visible-to-Infrared Information for High-Resolution

   Soil Moisture Mapping

   M. Piles and N. Sánchez

7. Soil Moisture Retrieved From a Combined Optical and

   Passive Microwave Approach: Theory and Applications

   C. Mattar, A. Santamaría-Artigas1, J. A. Sobrino, J.C. Jiménez - Muñoz ** Section III

   Microwave Soil Moisture Retrieval Techniques **

8. Nonparametric Model for the Retrieval of Soil

   Moisture by Microwave Remote Sensing

   D.K. Gupta, R. Prasad, P.K. Srivastava and T. Islam

9. Temperature-Dependent Spectroscopic Dielectric

   Model at 0.05-16 GHz for a Thawed and Frozen

   Alaskan Organic Soil

   V. Mironov and I. Savin

10. Active and Passive Microwave Remote Sensing

    Synergy for Soil Moisture Estimation

    R. Akbar, N. Das, D. Entekhabi and M. Moghaddam

11. Intercomparison of Soil Moisture Retrievals From In

    Situ, ASAR, and ECV SM Data Sets Over Different

    European Sites

    B. Barrett, C. Pratola, A. Gruber and E. Dwyer ** Section IV

    Advanced Applications of Soil Moisture **

12. Use of Satellite Soil Moisture Products for the

    Operational Mitigation of Landslides Risk in

    Central Italy

13. Remotely Sensed Soil Moisture as a Key Variable in

    Wildfires Prevention Services: Towards New Prediction

    Tools Using SMOS and SMAP Data

    D. Chaparro, M. Piles and M. Vall-llossera

14. Integrative Use of Near-Surface Satellite Soil Moisture

    and Precipitation for Estimation of Improved

    Irrigation Scheduling Parameters

    M. Gupta, P.K. Srivastava and T. Islam

15. A Comparative Study on SMOS and NLDAS-2 Soil

    Moistures Over a Hydrological Basin-With

    Continental Climate

16. Continental Scale Monitoring of Subdaily and Daily

    Evapotranspiration Enhanced by the Assimilation of

    Surface Soil Moisture Derived from Thermal Infrared

    Geostationary Data

17. Soil Moisture Deficit Estimation Through SMOS Soil

    Moisture and MODIS Land Surface Temperature

    P.K. Srivastava, T. Islam, S.K. Singh, M. Gupta, George P. Petropoulos,

    D.K. Gupta, W.Z. Wan Jaafar and R. Prasad ** Section V

    Future Challenges in Soil Moisture Retrieval and

    Applications **

18. Soil Moisture Retrievals Based on Active and

    Passive Microwave Data: State-of-the-Art and

    Operational Applications

    J. Munõz-Sabater, A. Al Bitar and L. Brocca

19. Emerging and Potential Future Applications of

    Satellite-Based Soil Moisture Products

    E. Tebbs, F. Gerard, A. Petrie and E. De Witte