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 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
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
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
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
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
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)
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
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
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
Persistent Topographic Trapping of the Middle Atlantic Bight Shelfbreak Front
2026
Taenzer, Lukas L., Gawarkiewicz, Glen G., Plueddemann, Albert J.
Salinity
Microwave Remote Sensing and Risk Matrix Assessment for Climate Change
2026
Fontgalland, Isabel L. M., Fontgalland, Glauco
Brightness Temperature, Surface Soil Moisture
Satellite-based detection of agricultural flash droughts and associated vegetation responses in southeastern South America
2026
Masaro, Lumila, Lovino, Miguel A, Pierrestegui, M Josefina, Muller, Gabriela V, Dorigo, Wouter
Fraction Of Absorbed Photosynthetically Active Radiation (fapar), Leaf Area Index (LAI) , Photosynthesis, Primary Production, VEGETATION PRODUCTIVITY, Evapotranspiration , Latent Heat Flux, Reflectance , Root Zone Soil Moisture, Surface Soil Moisture
Satellite-Based Fraction of Available Water Reveals Soil Moisture Deficits Preceding Major Wildfires
2026
Goffin, Benjamin D., Fernandez, Alfonso, Etchanchu, Jordi, Fang, Bin, Lakshmi, Venkataraman
Vegetation Water Content, Soil Moisture/Water Content , Skin Temperature, Fire Ecology, Biomass Burning, Wildfires , Fire Occurrence, Burned Area, RADAR IMAGERY, Terrain Elevation , Digital Elevation/Terrain Model (DEM) , Land Use/Land Cover Classification , Topographical Relief Maps, Plant Phenology, Enhanced Vegetation Index (EVI), Brightness Temperature, Surface Soil Moisture, SIGMA NAUGHT
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
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
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
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
Soil moisture buffers the impact of precipitation variability on ecosystem productivity
2026
Wang, Huiqi, Bassiouni, Maoya, Kang, Yanghui, Rifai, Sami W., Gherardi, Laureano A., Ukkola, Anna, Keenan, Trevor F.
Brightness Temperature, Surface Soil Moisture, Land Use/Land Cover Classification , Photosynthesis, Primary Production, VEGETATION PRODUCTIVITY, Vegetation Index , Normalized Difference Vegetation Index (NDVI), Enhanced Vegetation Index (EVI)
What is the uncertainty of the uncertainty and (why) does it matter? improving the uncertainty estimates of merged multi-satellite soil moisture data sets
2026
Formanek, Maud, Gruber, Alexander, Stradiotti, Pietro, Dorigo, Wouter
Brightness Temperature
Validation of high-resolution surface soil moisture time series retrieved by means of SAR interferometry
2026
De Zan, Francesco, Filippucci, Paolo, Brocca, Luca
Surface Soil Moisture
A 1 km soil moisture data over eastern CONUS generated through assimilating SMAP data into the Noah-MP land surface model
2025
Tai, Sheng-Lun, Yang, Zhao, Gaudet, Brian, Sakaguchi, Koichi, Berg, Larry, Kaul, Colleen, Qian, Yun, Liu, Ye, Fast, Jerome
Brightness Temperature, Surface Soil Moisture