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.
Table of Contents
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
Authors
Prashant K Srivastava Assistant Professor Institute of Environment and Sustainable Development Banaras Hindu University, India. 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. George Petropoulos Assistant Professor of Geoinformatics, Department of Geography, Harokopio University of Athens, Greece. George P. Petropoulos obtained his PhD from King's College London in the United Kingdom. Currently, he is Assistant Professor
of Geoinformatics at the Dept. of Geography, Harokopio University of Athens, Greece. He also holds a Marie Curie Fellowship
with the School of Mineral Resources Engineering of the Technical University of Crete, Greece (2018-2021). His research
focuses on the use of Earth Observation, Geographical Information Systems (GIS), digital cartography, GPS, simulation process
models, ground measurement networks in geographical and environmental applications. His main research interests include
the mapping of the natural and man-made environment and monitoring of their changes over time, the study of biotic and
abiotic hazards and of their spatiotemporal dynamics, the development of geoinformation software tools and use of operational
products and applications of geoinformation. Y.H. Kerr CESBIO, Toulouse, France.
