Estimation of subsurface soil moisture from surface soil moisture in cold mountainous areas

Estimating Soil Moisture Profile Dynamics from Near-surface Soil Moisture Measurements and Standard Meteorological Data

Soil surface moisture estimation with ERS SAR.PRI images

The estimation of the superficial soil moisture is very important in environmental studies, especially in the field of the hydrology and agronomy. The soil humidity is one of the most important variables of soil physics. In agriculture, it is the main factor of growth and yield of the cultivations. Indeed, in unirrigated land regions the variability of the yield of one year to the other one dep...

Analysis of surface soil moisture patterns

Analysis of surface soil moisture patterns in agricultural landscapes using empirical orthogonal functions W. Korres, C. N. Koyama, P. Fiener, and K. Schneider Department of Geography, University of Cologne, Cologne, Germany Received: 30 July 2009 – Accepted: 3 August 2009 – Published: 24 August 2009 Correspondence to: W. Korres ([email protected]) Published by Copernicus Publication...

Spatial soil moisture scaling structure during Soil Moisture Experiment 2005

Soil moisture state and variability control many hydrological and ecological processes as well as exchanges of energy and water between the land surface and the atmosphere. However, its state and variability are poorly understood at spatial scales larger than the fields (i.e. 1 km2) as well as the ability to extrapolate field scale to larger spatial scales. This study investigates soil moisture...

Estimating Surface Soil Moisture Using Radarsat-2

Extremes in soil moisture, either too much or too little, present a significant risk to agricultural productivity. Managing and mitigating risk requires information and knowledge to assess risk potential, implement risk reduction strategies and deliver responses to this risk. Synthetic aperture radars (SARs) are sensitive to the dielectric properties of soils and are thus well suited to provide...