Satellite Soil Moisture Retrieval. Techniques and Applications – Ebook PDF Instant Delivery – ISBN(s): 9780128033883,9780128033890,0128033886,0128033894

Product details:

• ISBN-13: 978-0128033883
• Author: Prashant K. Srivastava, George P. Petropoulos, Y. H. Kerr

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.

Table contents:

Section I: Introduction

Chapter 1: Soil Moisture from Space: Techniques and Limitations

Chapter 2: Available Data Sets and Satellites for Terrestrial Soil Moisture Estimation

Section II: Optical and Infrared Techniques & Synergies Between them

Chapter 3: Soil Moisture Retrievals Using Optical/TIR Methods

Chapter 4: Optical/Thermal-Based Techniques for Subsurface Soil Moisture Estimation

Chapter 5: Spatiotemporal Estimates of Surface Soil Moisture from Space Using the T_s/VI Feature Space

Chapter 6: Spatial Downscaling of Passive Microwave Data With Visible-to-Infrared Information for High-Resolution Soil Moisture Mapping

Section III: Microwave Soil Moisture Retrieval Techniques

Chapter 7: Soil Moisture Retrieved From a Combined Optical and Passive Microwave Approach: Theory and Applications

Chapter 8: Nonparametric Model for the Retrieval of Soil Moisture by Microwave Remote Sensing

Chapter 9: Temperature-Dependent Spectroscopic Dielectric Model at 0.05–16 GHz for a Thawed and Frozen Alaskan Organic Soil

Chapter 10: Active and Passive Microwave Remote Sensing Synergy for Soil Moisture Estimation

Chapter 11: Intercomparison of Soil Moisture Retrievals From In Situ, ASAR, and ECV SM Data Sets Over Different European Sites

Section IV: Advanced Applications of Soil Moisture

Chapter 12: Use of Satellite Soil Moisture Products for the Operational Mitigation of Landslides Risk in Central Italy

Chapter 13: Remotely Sensed Soil Moisture as a Key Variable in Wildfires Prevention Services: Towards New Prediction Tools Using SMOS and SMAP Data

Chapter 14: Integrative Use of Near-Surface Satellite Soil Moisture and Precipitation for Estimation of Improved Irrigation Scheduling Parameters

Chapter 15: A Comparative Study on SMOS and NLDAS-2 Soil Moistures Over a Hydrological Basin—With Continental Climate

Chapter 16: Continental Scale Monitoring of Subdaily and Daily Evapotranspiration Enhanced by the Assimilation of Surface Soil Moisture Derived from Thermal Infrared Geostationary Data

Chapter 17: Soil Moisture Deficit Estimation Through SMOS Soil Moisture and MODIS Land Surface Temperature

Section V: Future Challenges in Soil Moisture Retrieval and Applications

Chapter 18: Soil Moisture Retrievals Based on Active and Passive Microwave Data: State-of-the-Art and Operational Applications

Chapter 19: Emerging and Potential Future Applications of Satellite-Based Soil Moisture Products

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