{"type": "FeatureCollection", "features": [{"id": "10.3390/rs10091495", "type": "Feature", "geometry": null, "properties": {"updated": "2026-09-21T16:19:29Z", "type": "Journal Article", "created": "2018-09-19", "title": "Irrigation Mapping Using Sentinel-1 Time Series at Field Scale", "description": "<?xml version='1.0' encoding='UTF-8'?><article><p>The recently launched Sentinel-1 satellite with a Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR) sensor onboard offers a powerful tool for irrigation monitoring under various weather conditions, with high spatial and temporal resolution. This research discusses the potential of different metrics calculated from the Sentinel-1 time series for mapping irrigated fields. A methodology for irrigation mapping using SAR data is proposed. The study is performed using VV (vertical\u2013vertical) and VH (vertical\u2013horizontal) polarizations over an agricultural site in Urgell, Catalunya (Spain). With field segmentation information from SIGPAC (the Geographic Information System for Agricultural Parcels), the backscatter intensities are averaged within each field. From the Sentinel-1 time series for each field, the statistics and metrics, including the mean value, the variance of the signal, the correlation length, and the fractal dimension, are analyzed. With the Support Vector Machine (SVM), the classification of irrigated crops, irrigated trees, and non-irrigated fields is performed with the metrics vector. The results derived from the SVM are validated with ground truthing from SIGPAC over the whole study area, with a good overall accuracy of 81.08%. Random Forest (RF) machine classification is also tested in this study, which gives an accuracy of around 82.2% when setting the tree depth at three. The methodology is based only on SAR data, which makes it applicable to all areas, even with frequent cloud cover, but this method may be less robust when irrigation is less dominated to soil moisture change.</p></article>", "keywords": ["[SDE] Environmental Sciences", "550", "Science", "IMAGE SATELLITE", "irrigated farming", "0211 other engineering and technologies", "0207 environmental engineering", "02 engineering and technology", "630", "irrigation", "remote sensing", "cartography", "CULTURE IRRIGUEE", "TELEDETECTION", "CARTOGRAPHIE", "2. Zero hunger", "HUMIDITE DU SOL", "Q", "soil water content", "15. Life on land", "6. Clean water", "classification", "[SDE]Environmental Sciences", "Sentinel-1", "soil moisture", "soil moisture; SAR; Sentinel-1; irrigation; classification", "SAR"]}, "links": [{"href": "http://www.mdpi.com/2072-4292/10/9/1495/pdf"}, {"href": "https://doi.org/10.3390/rs10091495"}, {"rel": "related", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main/items/Remote%20Sensing", "name": "related record", "description": "related record", "type": "application/json"}, {"rel": "self", "type": "application/geo+json", "title": "10.3390/rs10091495", "name": "item", "description": "10.3390/rs10091495", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main/items/10.3390/rs10091495"}, {"rel": "collection", "type": "application/json", "title": "Collection", "name": "collection", "description": "Collection", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main"}], "time": {"date": "2018-09-18T00:00:00Z"}}, {"id": "10.1111/j.1365-2486.2004.00737.x", "type": "Feature", "geometry": null, "properties": {"updated": "2026-09-21T16:17:39Z", "type": "Journal Article", "created": "2004-12-24", "title": "Simulated Chronic No3\u2212Deposition Reduces Soil Respiration In Northern Hardwood Forests", "description": "Abstract<p>Chronic N additions to forest ecosystems can enhance soil N availability, potentially leading to reduced C allocation to root systems. This in turn could decrease soil CO2 efflux. We measured soil respiration during the first, fifth, sixth and eighth years of simulated atmospheric NO3\uffe2\uff88\uff92 deposition (3\uffe2\uff80\uff83g\uffe2\uff80\uff83N\uffe2\uff80\uff83m\uffe2\uff88\uff922\uffe2\uff80\uff83yr\uffe2\uff88\uff921) to four sugar maple\uffe2\uff80\uff90dominated northern hardwood forests in Michigan to assess these possibilities. During the first year, soil respiration rates were slightly, but not significantly, higher in the NO3\uffe2\uff88\uff92\uffe2\uff80\uff90amended plots. In all subsequent measurement years, soil respiration rates from NO3\uffe2\uff88\uff92\uffe2\uff80\uff90amended soils were significantly depressed. Soil temperature and soil matric potential were measured concurrently with soil respiration and used to develop regression relationships for predicting soil respiration rates. Estimates of growing season and annual soil CO2 efflux made using these relationships indicate that these C fluxes were depressed by 15% in the eighth year of chronic NO3\uffe2\uff88\uff92 additions. The decrease in soil respiration was not due to reduced C allocation to roots, as root respiration rates, root biomass, and root turnover were not significantly affected by N additions. Aboveground litter also was unchanged by the 8 years of treatment. Of the remaining potential causes for the decline in soil CO2 efflux, reduced microbial respiration appears to be the most likely possibility. Documented reductions in microbial biomass and the activities of extracellular enzymes used for litter degradation on the NO3\uffe2\uff88\uff92\uffe2\uff80\uff90amended plots are consistent with this explanation.</p>", "keywords": ["Nitrogen Fertilization", "Soil CO 2 Efflux", "Geology and Earth Sciences", "Science", "Atmospheric Nitrate Deposition", "Ecology and Evolutionary Biology", "Root Respiration", "0401 agriculture", " forestry", " and fisheries", "Temperature and Moisture Effects", "04 agricultural and veterinary sciences", "15. Life on land", "Root Biomass"]}, "links": [{"href": "https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1365-2486.2004.00737.x"}, {"rel": "related", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main/items/Global%20Change%20Biology", "name": "related record", "description": "related record", "type": "application/json"}, {"rel": "self", "type": "application/geo+json", "title": "10.1111/j.1365-2486.2004.00737.x", "name": "item", "description": "10.1111/j.1365-2486.2004.00737.x", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main/items/10.1111/j.1365-2486.2004.00737.x"}, {"rel": "collection", "type": "application/json", "title": "Collection", "name": "collection", "description": "Collection", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main"}], "time": {"date": "2004-05-07T00:00:00Z"}}, {"id": "10.1111/j.1365-2486.2005.001058.x", "type": "Feature", "geometry": null, "properties": {"updated": "2026-09-21T16:17:40Z", "type": "Journal Article", "created": "2005-11-28", "title": "Effects Of Experimental Drought On Soil Respiration And Radiocarbon Efflux From A Temperate Forest Soil", "description": "Abstract<p>Soil moisture affects microbial decay of SOM and rhizosphere respiration (RR) in temperate forest soils, but isolating the response of soil respiration (SR) to summer drought and subsequent wetting is difficult because moisture changes are often confounded with temperature variation. We distinguished between temperature and moisture effects by simulation of prolonged soil droughts in a mixed deciduous forest at the Harvard Forest, Massachusetts. Roofs constructed over triplicate 5 \uffc3\uff97 5\uffe2\uff80\uff83m2plots excluded throughfall water during the summers of 2001 (168\uffe2\uff80\uff83mm) and 2002 (344\uffe2\uff80\uff83mm), while adjacent control plots received ambient throughfall and the same natural temperature regime. In 2003, throughfall was not excluded to assess the response of SR under natural weather conditions after two prolonged summer droughts. Throughfall exclusion significantly decreased mean SR rate by 53\uffe2\uff80\uff83mg\uffe2\uff80\uff83C\uffe2\uff80\uff83m\uffe2\uff88\uff922\uffe2\uff80\uff83h\uffe2\uff88\uff921over 84 days in 2001, and by 68\uffe2\uff80\uff83mg\uffe2\uff80\uff83C\uffe2\uff80\uff83m\uffe2\uff88\uff922\uffe2\uff80\uff83h\uffe2\uff88\uff921over 126 days in 2002, representing 10\uffe2\uff80\uff9330% of annual SR in this forest and 35\uffe2\uff80\uff9375% of annual net ecosystem exchange (NEE) of C. The differences in SR were best explained by differences in gravimetric water content in the Oi horizon (r2=0.69) and the Oe/Oa horizon (r2=0.60). Volumetric water content of the A horizon was not significantly affected by throughfall exclusion. The radiocarbon signature of soil CO2efflux and of CO2respired during incubations of O horizon, A horizon and living roots allowed partitioning of SR into contributions from young C substrate (including RR) and from decomposition of older SOM. RR (root respiration and microbial respiration of young substrates in the rhizosphere) made up 43\uffe2\uff80\uff9371% of the total C respired in the control plots and 41\uffe2\uff80\uff9380% in the exclusion plots, and tended to increase with drought. An exception to this trend was an interesting increase in CO2efflux of radiocarbon\uffe2\uff80\uff90rich substrates during a period of abundant growth of mushrooms.</p><p>Our results suggest that prolonged summer droughts decrease primarily heterotrophic respiration in the O horizon, which could cause increases in the storage of soil organic carbon in this forest. However, the C stored during two summers of simulated drought was only partly released as increased respiration during the following summer of natural throughfall. We do not know if this soil C sink during drought is transient or long lasting. In any case, differential decomposition of the O horizon caused by interannual variation of precipitation probably contributes significantly to observed interannual variation of NEE in temperate forests.</p>", "keywords": ["Ecology", "04 agricultural and veterinary sciences", "Biological Sciences", "15. Life on land", "soil respiration", "6. Clean water", "soil drought", "heterotrophic respiration", "rhizosphere respiration", "13. Climate action", "soil organic matter", "temperate forest", "radiocarbon", "0401 agriculture", " forestry", " and fisheries", "soil wetting", "soil moisture", "Q(10)", "Environmental Sciences"]}, "links": [{"href": "https://escholarship.org/content/qt3mk9v58k/qt3mk9v58k.pdf"}, {"href": "https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1365-2486.2005.001058.x"}, {"rel": "related", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main/items/Global%20Change%20Biology", "name": "related record", "description": "related record", "type": "application/json"}, {"rel": "self", "type": "application/geo+json", "title": "10.1111/j.1365-2486.2005.001058.x", "name": "item", "description": "10.1111/j.1365-2486.2005.001058.x", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main/items/10.1111/j.1365-2486.2005.001058.x"}, {"rel": "collection", "type": "application/json", "title": "Collection", "name": "collection", "description": "Collection", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main"}], "time": {"date": "2005-11-28T00:00:00Z"}}, {"id": "10.3390/rs10111720", "type": "Feature", "geometry": null, "properties": {"updated": "2026-09-21T16:19:29Z", "type": "Journal Article", "created": "2018-10-31", "title": "Towards Estimating Land Evaporation at Field Scales Using GLEAM", "description": "<p>The evaporation of water from land into the atmosphere is a key component of the hydrological cycle. Accurate estimates of this flux are essential for proper water management and irrigation scheduling. However, continuous and qualitative information on land evaporation is currently not available at the required spatio-temporal scales for agricultural applications and regional-scale water management. Here, we apply the Global Land Evaporation Amsterdam Model (GLEAM) at 100 m spatial resolution and daily time steps to provide estimates of land evaporation over The Netherlands, Flanders, and western Germany for the period 2013\uffe2\uff80\uff932017. By making extensive use of microwave-based geophysical observations, we are able to provide data under all weather conditions. The soil moisture estimates from GLEAM at high resolution compare well with in situ measurements of surface soil moisture, resulting in a median temporal correlation coefficient of 0.76 across 29 sites. Estimates of terrestrial evaporation are also evaluated using in situ eddy-covariance measurements from five sites, and compared to estimates from the coarse-scale GLEAM v3.2b, land evaporation from the Satellite Application Facility on Land Surface Analysis (LSA-SAF), and reference grass evaporation based on Makkink\uffe2\uff80\uff99s equation. All datasets compare similarly with in situ measurements and differences in the temporal statistics are small, with correlation coefficients against in situ data ranging from 0.65 to 0.95, depending on the site. Evaporation estimates from GLEAM-HR are typically bounded by the high values of the Makkink evaporation and the low values from LSA-SAF. While GLEAM-HR and LSA-SAF show the highest spatial detail, their geographical patterns diverge strongly due to differences in model assumptions, model parameterizations, and forcing data. The separate consideration of rainfall interception loss by tall vegetation in GLEAM-HR is a key cause of this divergence: while LSA-SAF reports maximum annual evaporation volumes in the Green Heart of The Netherlands, an area dominated by shrubs and grasses, GLEAM-HR shows its maximum in the national parks of the Veluwe and Heuvelrug, both densely-forested regions where rainfall interception loss is a dominant process. The pioneering dataset presented here is unique in that it provides observational-based estimates at high resolution under all weather conditions, and represents a viable alternative to traditional visible and infrared models to retrieve evaporation at field scales.</p>", "keywords": ["microwave remote sensing", "EVAPOTRANSPIRATION", "WACMOS-ET PROJECT", "Science", "FLUXNET", "Q", "LSA-SAF", "15. Life on land", "01 natural sciences", "6. Clean water", "MODEL", "CARBON", "VARIABILITY", "terrestrial evaporation", "root-zone soil moisture", "13. Climate action", "Earth and Environmental Sciences", "SURFACE EVAPORATION", "GLOBAL DATABASE", "WATER", "SOIL-MOISTURE RETRIEVALS", "terrestrial evaporation; root-zone soil moisture; microwave remote sensing; GLEAM; LSA-SAF", "GLEAM", "0105 earth and related environmental sciences"]}, "links": [{"href": "http://www.mdpi.com/2072-4292/10/11/1720/pdf"}, {"href": "https://doi.org/10.3390/rs10111720"}, {"rel": "related", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main/items/Remote%20Sensing", "name": "related record", "description": "related record", "type": "application/json"}, {"rel": "self", "type": "application/geo+json", "title": "10.3390/rs10111720", "name": "item", "description": "10.3390/rs10111720", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main/items/10.3390/rs10111720"}, {"rel": "collection", "type": "application/json", "title": "Collection", "name": "collection", "description": "Collection", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main"}], "time": {"date": "2018-10-31T00:00:00Z"}}, {"id": "10.3390/rs10101601", "type": "Feature", "geometry": null, "properties": {"updated": "2026-09-21T16:19:29Z", "type": "Journal Article", "created": "2018-10-09", "title": "Sensitivity of Evapotranspiration Components in Remote Sensing-Based Models", "description": "<p>Accurately estimating evapotranspiration (ET) at large spatial scales is essential to our understanding of land-atmosphere coupling and the surface balance of water and energy. Comparisons between remote sensing-based ET models are difficult due to diversity in model formulation, parametrization and data requirements. The constituent components of ET have been shown to deviate substantially among models as well as between models and field estimates. This study analyses the sensitivity of three global ET remote sensing models in an attempt to isolate the error associated with forcing uncertainty and reveal the underlying variables driving the model components. We examine the transpiration, soil evaporation, interception and total ET estimates of the Penman-Monteith model from the Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (PM-MOD), the Priestley-Taylor Jet Propulsion Laboratory model (PT-JPL) and the Global Land Evaporation Amsterdam Model (GLEAM) at 42 sites where ET components have been measured using field techniques. We analyse the sensitivity of the models based on the uncertainty of the input variables and as a function of the raw value of the variables themselves. We find that, at 10% added uncertainty levels, the total ET estimates from PT-JPL, PM-MOD and GLEAM are most sensitive to Normalized Difference Vegetation Index (NDVI) (%RMSD = 100.0), relative humidity (%RMSD = 122.3) and net radiation (%RMSD = 7.49), respectively. Consistently, systemic bias introduced by forcing uncertainty in the component estimates is mitigated when components are aggregated to a total ET estimate. These results suggest that slight changes to forcing may result in outsized variation in ET partitioning and relatively smaller changes to the total ET estimates. Our results help to explain why model estimates of total ET perform relatively well despite large inter-model divergence in the individual ET component estimates.</p>", "keywords": ["550", "Science", "TROPICAL RAIN-FOREST", "0208 environmental biotechnology", "evapotranspiration", "0207 environmental engineering", "02 engineering and technology", "interception", "SOIL-MOISTURE", "transpiration", "modelling", "partitioning", "soil evaporation", "uncertainty", "DROUGHT", "evapotranspiration; modelling; sensitivity; uncertainty; transpiration; soil evaporation; interception; partitioning", "CLIMATE-CHANGE", "Q", "Biology and Life Sciences", "PLANT TRANSPIRATION", "sensitivity", "6. Clean water", "CHIHUAHUAN DESERT", "GLOBAL TERRESTRIAL EVAPOTRANSPIRATION", "13. Climate action", "Earth and Environmental Sciences", "LAND EVAPORATION", "WATER-BALANCE", "FEEDBACKS", "[PHYS.ASTR]Physics [physics]/Astrophysics [astro-ph]", "[PHYS.ASTR] Physics [physics]/Astrophysics [astro-ph]"]}, "links": [{"href": "http://www.mdpi.com/2072-4292/10/10/1601/pdf"}, {"href": "https://doi.org/10.3390/rs10101601"}, {"rel": "related", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main/items/Remote%20Sensing", "name": "related record", "description": "related record", "type": "application/json"}, {"rel": "self", "type": "application/geo+json", "title": "10.3390/rs10101601", "name": "item", "description": "10.3390/rs10101601", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main/items/10.3390/rs10101601"}, {"rel": "collection", "type": "application/json", "title": "Collection", "name": "collection", "description": "Collection", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main"}], "time": {"date": "2018-10-09T00:00:00Z"}}, {"id": "10067/1934950151162165141", "type": "Feature", "geometry": null, "properties": {"updated": "2026-09-21T16:22:00Z", "type": "Journal Article", "created": "2022-12-12", "title": "Disentangling temperature and water stress contributions to trends in isoprene emissions using satellite observations of formaldehyde, 2005\u20132016", "description": "Isoprene, produced by plants in response to multiple drivers, affects climate and air quality when released into the atmosphere. In turn, climate change may influence isoprene emissions through variations in occurrence and intensity of types of stress that affect plant functions. We test the effects of multiple drivers (temperature, precipitation, soil moisture, drought index, biomass, aerosols, burned fraction) on space retrievals of formaldehyde (HCHO) column concentrations, as a proxy for isoprene emissions, at global and regional scales over the period 2005-2016. We find declines in HCHO column concentrations over the study period across Europe, the Amazon Basin, southern Africa, and southern Australia, and increases across India, China, and mainland Southeast Asia. Temporal effects and the interactions among drivers are analyzed using generalized linear mixed-effects models to explain trends in HCHO column concentrations. Results show that HCHO column concentrations increase with temperature at the global scale and across the Amazon Basin and India-China regions, even under low levels of precipitation, provided that sufficient soil moisture can maintain vegetation functions and the associated isoprene emissions. Water availability sustains isoprene emissions in dry regions such as Australia, where HCHO column concentrations are positively associated with mean precipitation, with this relation intensifying at low levels of soil moisture. In contrast, isoprene emissions increase under water stress across the Amazon Basin and Europe, where HCHO column concentrations are negatively associated with levels of soil moisture and drought as calculated by the Standardized Precipitation-Evapotranspiration Index (SPEI). This study confirms the key role of temperature in modulating global and regional isoprene emissions and highlights contrasting regional effects of water stress on these emissions.", "keywords": ["Isoprene", "Drought", "Water availability", "Physics", "Temperature", "Generalized linear mixed-effects models", "15. Life on land", "7. Clean energy", "01 natural sciences", "6. Clean water", "Chemistry", "13. Climate action", "Formaldehyde", "OMI satellite observations", "11. Sustainability", "Soil moisture", "Biology", "0105 earth and related environmental sciences"]}, "links": [{"href": "https://doi.org/10067/1934950151162165141"}, {"rel": "related", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main/items/Atmospheric%20Environment", "name": "related record", "description": "related record", "type": "application/json"}, {"rel": "self", "type": "application/geo+json", "title": "10067/1934950151162165141", "name": "item", "description": "10067/1934950151162165141", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main/items/10067/1934950151162165141"}, {"rel": "collection", "type": "application/json", "title": "Collection", "name": "collection", "description": "Collection", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main"}], "time": {"date": "2023-02-01T00:00:00Z"}}, {"id": "10.1111/nph.15123", "type": "Feature", "geometry": null, "properties": {"updated": "2026-09-21T16:17:53Z", "type": "Journal Article", "created": "2018-03-31", "title": "Quantifying soil moisture impacts on light use efficiency across biomes", "description": "Summary<p>   <p>Terrestrial primary productivity and carbon cycle impacts of droughts are commonly quantified using vapour pressure deficit (VPD) data and remotely sensed greenness, without accounting for soil moisture. However, soil moisture limitation is known to strongly affect plant physiology.</p>  <p>Here, we investigate light use efficiency, the ratio of gross primary productivity (GPP) to absorbed light. We derive its fractional reduction due to soil moisture (fLUE), separated from VPD and greenness changes, using artificial neural networks trained on eddy covariance data, multiple soil moisture datasets and remotely sensed greenness.</p>  <p>This reveals substantial impacts of soil moisture alone that reduce GPP by up to 40% at sites located in sub\uffe2\uff80\uff90humid, semi\uffe2\uff80\uff90arid or arid regions. For sites in relatively moist climates, we find, paradoxically, a muted fLUE response to drying soil, but reduced fLUE under wet conditions.</p>  <p>fLUE identifies substantial drought impacts that are not captured when relying solely on VPD and greenness changes and, when seasonally recurring, are missed by traditional, anomaly\uffe2\uff80\uff90based drought indices. Counter to common assumptions, fLUE reductions are largest in drought\uffe2\uff80\uff90deciduous vegetation, including grasslands. Our results highlight the necessity to account for soil moisture limitation in terrestrial primary productivity data products, especially for drought\uffe2\uff80\uff90related assessments.</p>  </p>", "keywords": ["Time Factors", "550", "vapour pressure deficit", "Light", "Vapor Pressure", "Rain", "Eddy covariance", "02 engineering and technology", "01 natural sciences", "630", "Ecological applications", "Soil", "drought impacts", "Vapour pressure deficit", "Photosynthesis", "drought impacts; eddy covariance; gross primary productivity (GPP); light use efficiency; photosynthesis; soil moisture; standardized precipitation index; vapour pressure deficit (VPD)", "Plant biology", "2. Zero hunger", "Light use efficiency", "Ecology", "gross primary productivity (GPP)", "Biological Sciences", "6. Clean water", "Droughts", "Climate change impacts and adaptation", "gross primary productivity", "Neural Networks", "Plant Biology & Botany", "Drought impacts", "vapour pressure deficit (VPD)", "0207 environmental engineering", "Computer", "eddy covariance", "light use efficiency", "Ecosystem", "0105 earth and related environmental sciences", "photosynthesis", "Agricultural and Veterinary Sciences", "Research", "Gross primary productivity ()", "Water", "Humidity", "Plant Transpiration", "06 Biological Sciences", "15. Life on land", "standardized precipitation index", "13. Climate action", "vapour pressure deficit (VPD", "Standardized precipitation index", "07 Agricultural And Veterinary Sciences", "Soil moisture", "Neural Networks", " Computer", "soil moisture", "Climate Change Impacts and Adaptation", "Environmental Sciences"]}, "links": [{"href": "https://nph.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/pdf/10.1111/nph.15123"}, {"href": "https://escholarship.org/content/qt3sb2745c/qt3sb2745c.pdf"}, {"href": "https://doi.org/10.1111/nph.15123"}, {"rel": "related", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main/items/New%20Phytologist", "name": "related record", "description": "related record", "type": "application/json"}, {"rel": "self", "type": "application/geo+json", "title": "10.1111/nph.15123", "name": "item", "description": "10.1111/nph.15123", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main/items/10.1111/nph.15123"}, {"rel": "collection", "type": "application/json", "title": "Collection", "name": "collection", "description": "Collection", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main"}], "time": {"date": "2018-03-31T00:00:00Z"}}, {"id": "10.1111/nyas.13912", "type": "Feature", "geometry": null, "properties": {"updated": "2026-09-21T16:17:54Z", "type": "Journal Article", "created": "2018-06-26", "title": "Land-atmospheric feedbacks during droughts and heatwaves: state of the science and current challenges", "description": "Abstract<p>Droughts and heatwaves cause agricultural loss, forest mortality, and drinking water scarcity, especially when they occur simultaneously as combined events. Their predicted increase in recurrence and intensity poses serious threats to future food security. Still today, the knowledge of how droughts and heatwaves start and evolve remains limited, and so does our understanding of how climate change may affect them. Droughts and heatwaves have been suggested to intensify and propagate via land\uffe2\uff80\uff93atmosphere feedbacks. However, a global capacity to observe these processes is still lacking, and climate and forecast models are immature when it comes to representing the influences of land on temperature and rainfall. Key open questions remain in our goal to uncover the real importance of these feedbacks: What is the impact of the extreme meteorological conditions on ecosystem evaporation? How do these anomalies regulate the atmospheric boundary layer state (event self\uffe2\uff80\uff90intensification) and contribute to the inflow of heat and moisture to other regions (event self\uffe2\uff80\uff90propagation)? Can this knowledge on the role of land feedbacks, when available, be exploited to develop geo\uffe2\uff80\uff90engineering mitigation strategies that prevent these events from aggravating during their early stages? The goal of our perspective is not to present a convincing answer to these questions, but to assess the scientific progress to date, while highlighting new and innovative avenues to keep advancing our understanding in the future.</p>", "keywords": ["Hot Temperature", "Climate Change", "drought", "SOIL-MOISTURE", "01 natural sciences", "CARBON-DIOXIDE", "heatwave", "SURFACE EVAPORATION", "CLIMATE EXTREMES", "Humans", "drought; heatwave; land feedback; land\u2013atmospheric interactions", "land feedback", "land\u2013atmospheric interactions", "SAHEL CLIMATE", "Ecosystem", "HEAT-WAVE", "0105 earth and related environmental sciences", "2. Zero hunger", "Agriculture", "Models", " Theoretical", "15. Life on land", "FOREST", "6. Clean water", "Droughts", "SUMMER", "WATER-VAPOR", "13. Climate action", "Earth and Environmental Sciences", "land-atmospheric interactions", "GRASSLAND ENERGY-EXCHANGE", "Perspectives"]}, "links": [{"href": "https://nyaspubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/pdf/10.1111/nyas.13912"}, {"href": "https://doi.org/10.1111/nyas.13912"}, {"rel": "related", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main/items/Annals%20of%20the%20New%20York%20Academy%20of%20Sciences", "name": "related record", "description": "related record", "type": "application/json"}, {"rel": "self", "type": "application/geo+json", "title": "10.1111/nyas.13912", "name": "item", "description": "10.1111/nyas.13912", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main/items/10.1111/nyas.13912"}, {"rel": "collection", "type": "application/json", "title": "Collection", "name": "collection", "description": "Collection", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main"}], "time": {"date": "2018-06-25T00:00:00Z"}}, {"id": "10.1126/sciadv.abe6653", "type": "Feature", "geometry": null, "properties": {"updated": "2026-09-21T16:17:57Z", "type": "Journal Article", "created": "2022-01-07", "title": "Soil drought can mitigate deadly heat stress thanks to a reduction of air humidity", "description": "<p>Soil drought can mitigate deadly heat stress thanks to a reduction of air humidity.</p>", "keywords": ["Multidisciplinary", "CLIMATE-CHANGE", "Earth", " Environmental", " Ecological", " and Space Sciences", "FEEDBACK", "0207 environmental engineering", "AMPLIFICATION", "02 engineering and technology", "MOISTURE", "15. Life on land", "SUMMER RAINFALL", "01 natural sciences", "6. Clean water", "MODEL", "EXCEED", "13. Climate action", "Earth and Environmental Sciences", "SURFACE EVAPORATION", "TEMPERATURES", "Life Science", "HEATWAVES", "0105 earth and related environmental sciences"]}, "links": [{"href": "https://doi.org/10.1126/sciadv.abe6653"}, {"rel": "related", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main/items/Science%20Advances", "name": "related record", "description": "related record", "type": "application/json"}, {"rel": "self", "type": "application/geo+json", "title": "10.1126/sciadv.abe6653", "name": "item", "description": "10.1126/sciadv.abe6653", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main/items/10.1126/sciadv.abe6653"}, {"rel": "collection", "type": "application/json", "title": "Collection", "name": "collection", "description": "Collection", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main"}], "time": {"date": "2022-01-07T00:00:00Z"}}, {"id": "10.3390/rs13040727", "type": "Feature", "geometry": null, "properties": {"updated": "2026-09-21T16:19:30Z", "type": "Journal Article", "created": "2021-02-17", "title": "On the Utility of High-Resolution Soil Moisture Data for Better Constraining Thermal-Based Energy Balance over Three Semi-Arid Agricultural Areas", "description": "<p>Over semi-arid agricultural areas, the surface energy balance and its components are largely dependent on the soil water availability. In such conditions, the land surface temperature (LST) retrieved from the thermal bands has been commonly used to represent the high spatial variability of the surface evaporative fraction and associated fluxes. In contrast, however, the soil moisture (SM) retrieved from microwave data has rarely been used thus far due to the unavailability of high-resolution (field scale) SM products until recent times. Soil evaporation is controlled by the surface SM. Moreover, the surface SM dynamics is temporally related to root zone SM, which provides information about the water status of plants. The aim of this work was to assess the gain in terms of flux estimates when integrating microwave-derived SM data in a thermal-based energy balance model at the field scale. In this study, SM products were derived from three different methodologies: the first approach inverts SM, labeled hereafter as \uffe2\uff80\uff98SMO20\uffe2\uff80\uff99, from the backscattering coefficient and the interferometric coherence derived from Sentinel-1 products in the water cloud model (WCM); the second approach inverts SM from Sentinel-1 and Sentinel-2 data based on machine learning algorithms trained on a synthetic dataset simulated by the WCM noted \uffe2\uff80\uff98SME16\uffe2\uff80\uff99; and the third approach disaggregates the soil moisture active and passive SM at 100 m resolution using Landsat optical/thermal data \uffe2\uff80\uff98SMO19\uffe2\uff80\uff99. These SM products, combined with the Landsat based vegetation index and LST, are integrated simultaneously within an energy balance model (TSEB-SM) to predict the latent (LE) and sensible (H) heat fluxes over two irrigated and rainfed wheat crop sites located in the Haouz Plain in the center of Morocco. H and LE were measured over each site using an eddy covariance system and their values were used to evaluate the potential of TSEB-SM against the classical two source energy balance (TSEB) model solely based on optical/thermal data. Globally, TSEB systematically overestimates LE (mean bias of 100 W/m2) and underestimates H (mean bias of \uffe2\uff88\uff92110 W/m2), while TSEB-SM significantly reduces those biases, regardless of the SM product used as input. This is linked to the parameterization of the Priestley Taylor coefficient, which is set to \uffce\uffb1PT = 1.26 by default in TSEB and adjusted across the season in TSEB-SM. The best performance of TSEB-SM was obtained over the irrigated field using the three retrieved SM products with a mean R2 of 0.72 and 0.92, and a mean RMSE of 31 and 36 W/m2 for LE and H, respectively. This opens up perspectives for applying the TSEB-SM model over extended irrigated agricultural areas to better predict the crop water needs at the field scale.</p>", "keywords": ["2. Zero hunger", "550", "Science", "Q", "0208 environmental biotechnology", "0207 environmental engineering", "TSEB-SM", "land surface temperature", "02 engineering and technology", "15. Life on land", "surface soil moisture", "[SDU.ENVI] Sciences of the Universe [physics]/Continental interfaces", " environment", "6. Clean water", "winter wheat", "13. Climate action", "semi-arid region", "[SDU.STU.HY] Sciences of the Universe [physics]/Earth Sciences/Hydrology", "[SDU.STU.HY]Sciences of the Universe [physics]/Earth Sciences/Hydrology", "[SDU.ENVI]Sciences of the Universe [physics]/Continental interfaces", "TSEB", "environment", "vegetation index"]}, "links": [{"href": "http://www.mdpi.com/2072-4292/13/4/727/pdf"}, {"href": "https://www.mdpi.com/2072-4292/13/4/727/pdf"}, {"href": "https://doi.org/10.3390/rs13040727"}, {"rel": "related", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main/items/Remote%20Sensing", "name": "related record", "description": "related record", "type": "application/json"}, {"rel": "self", "type": "application/geo+json", "title": "10.3390/rs13040727", "name": "item", "description": "10.3390/rs13040727", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main/items/10.3390/rs13040727"}, {"rel": "collection", "type": "application/json", "title": "Collection", "name": "collection", "description": "Collection", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main"}], "time": {"date": "2021-02-17T00:00:00Z"}}, {"id": "2987379657", "type": "Feature", "geometry": null, "properties": {"updated": "2026-09-21T16:22:59Z", "type": "Journal Article", "created": "2019-11-07", "title": "Deriving Field Scale Soil Moisture from Satellite Observations and Ground Measurements in a Hilly Agricultural Region", "description": "<?xml version='1.0' encoding='UTF-8'?><article><p>Agricultural and hydrological applications could greatly benefit from soil moisture (SM) information at sub-field resolution and (sub-) daily revisit time. However, current operational satellite missions provide soil moisture information at either lower spatial or temporal resolution. Here, we downscale coarse resolution (25\u201336 km) satellite SM products with quasi-daily resolution to the field scale (30 m) using the random forest (RF) machine learning algorithm. RF models are trained with remotely sensed SM and ancillary variables on soil texture, topography, and vegetation cover against SM measured in the field. The approach is developed and tested in an agricultural catchment equipped with a high-density network of low-cost SM sensors. Our results show a strong consistency between the downscaled and observed SM spatio-temporal patterns. We found that topography has higher predictive power for downscaling than soil texture, due to the hilly landscape of the study area. Furthermore, including a proxy of vegetation cover results in considerable improvements of the performance. Increasing the training set size leads to significant gain in the model skill and expanding the training set is likely to further enhance the accuracy. When only limited in-situ measurements are available as training data, increasing the number of sensor locations should be favored over expanding the duration of the measurements for improved downscaling performance. In this regard, we show the potential of low-cost sensors as a practical and cost-effective solution for gathering the necessary observations. Overall, our findings highlight the suitability of using ground measurements in conjunction with machine learning to derive high spatially resolved SM maps from coarse-scale satellite products.</p></article>", "keywords": ["advanced scatterometer (ascat)", "2. Zero hunger", "soil moisture; downscaling; advanced scatterometer (ASCAT); soil moisture active passive (SMAP); random forest; low-cost sensor", "soil moisture active passive (smap)", "Science", "Q", "downscaling", "soil moisture", "15. Life on land", "01 natural sciences", "random forest", "low-cost sensor", "0105 earth and related environmental sciences"]}, "links": [{"href": "http://www.mdpi.com/2072-4292/11/22/2596/pdf"}, {"href": "https://www.mdpi.com/2072-4292/11/22/2596/pdf"}, {"href": "https://doi.org/2987379657"}, {"rel": "related", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main/items/Remote%20Sensing", "name": "related record", "description": "related record", "type": "application/json"}, {"rel": "self", "type": "application/geo+json", "title": "2987379657", "name": "item", "description": "2987379657", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main/items/2987379657"}, {"rel": "collection", "type": "application/json", "title": "Collection", "name": "collection", "description": "Collection", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main"}], "time": {"date": "2019-11-06T00:00:00Z"}}, {"id": "10.1186/s12870-019-1987-4", "type": "Feature", "geometry": null, "properties": {"updated": "2026-09-21T16:18:09Z", "type": "Journal Article", "created": "2019-10-07", "title": "Measurement of leaf lamina moisture with a low-cost electrical humidity sensor: case study on a wheat water-mutant", "description": "Abstract                                Background                 <p>The presence and persistence of water on the leaf can affect crop performance and thus might be a relevant trait to select for or against in breeding programmes. Low-cost, rapid and relatively simple methods are of significant importance for screening of large populations of plants for moisture analysis of detached leaves. Leaf moisture can be detected using an electric circuit, where the resistance changes are proportional to the moisture of the measured surface. In this study, we present a protocol to analyse genotypic differences through the electrical properties of living or stored tissues, performed using a commercial device. Expanded and non-expanded leaves were compared to determine the effects of leaf maturity on these data. Two wheat genotypes that differ in tissue affinity for bound water were used to define the influence of water status.</p>                                               Results                 <p>The device indirectly estimates leaf moisture content using two electrodes applied to the leaf lamina of fresh and stored samples. Single moisture readings using this moisture meter had mean execution time of ~\uffe2\uff80\uff891.0\uffe2\uff80\uff89min. Exponential associations provided good fits for relationships between the moisture meter reading (MMR) and the electrical resistance applied to the electrodes. MMR normalised for the water/ dry matter ratio (MMRnorm) was lower for mature leaves of the water-mutant than those of wild-type, for the fully hydrated fresh leaves. MMR of fully mature leaves when partially dehydrated and measured after 10\uffe2\uff80\uff89min at 27\uffe2\uff80\uff89\uffc2\uffb0C and 40% relative humidity was greater for the water-mutant than the wild-type.</p>                                               Conclusions                 <p>This case study provides a low-cost tool to compare electrical-resistance estimates of leaf moisture content, together with a promising and rapid phenotyping protocol for genotypic screening of wheat under standard environmental conditions. Measurement of changes in MMR with time, of fresh and partially dehydrated leaves, or of MMR normalised to tissue water content allowed for differentiation between the genotypes. Furthermore, the differences observed between genotypes that here relate particular to tissue affinity for bound water suggest that not only the free-water fraction, but also other water fractions, can affect these electrically estimated leaf moisture measures.</p>", "keywords": ["Wheat breeding", "0106 biological sciences", "0301 basic medicine", "2. Zero hunger", "Bound water; Electrical sensor; Leaf moisture; Wheat breeding; Humidity; Plant Leaves; Triticum; Water", "Methodology Article", "Leaf moisture", "Botany", "Water", "Humidity", "15. Life on land", "01 natural sciences", "Plant Leaves", "03 medical and health sciences", "Electrical sensor", "QK1-989", "Bound water", "Triticum"]}, "links": [{"href": "https://iris.unimore.it/bitstream/11380/1223165/2/rascio2019.pdf"}, {"href": "http://link.springer.com/content/pdf/10.1186/s12870-019-1987-4.pdf"}, {"href": "https://doi.org/10.1186/s12870-019-1987-4"}, {"rel": "related", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main/items/BMC%20Plant%20Biology", "name": "related record", "description": "related record", "type": "application/json"}, {"rel": "self", "type": "application/geo+json", "title": "10.1186/s12870-019-1987-4", "name": "item", "description": "10.1186/s12870-019-1987-4", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main/items/10.1186/s12870-019-1987-4"}, {"rel": "collection", "type": "application/json", "title": "Collection", "name": "collection", "description": "Collection", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main"}], "time": {"date": "2019-10-07T00:00:00Z"}}, {"id": "10.13031/2013.41521", "type": "Feature", "geometry": null, "properties": {"updated": "2026-09-21T16:18:11Z", "type": "Journal Article", "created": "2013-10-22", "title": "Large-Scale On-Farm Implementation Of Soil Moisture-Based Irrigation Management Strategies For Increasing Maize Water Productivity", "description": "Irrigated maize is produced on about 3.5 Mha in the U.S. Great Plains and western Corn Belt. Most irrigation water comes from groundwater. Persistent drought and increased competition for water resources threaten long-term viability of groundwater resources, which motivated our research to develop strategies to increase water productivity without noticeable reduction in maize yield. Results from previous research at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln (UNL) experiment stations in 2005 and 2006 found that it was possible to substantially reduce irrigation amounts and increase irrigation water use efficiency (IWUE) and crop water use efficiency (CWUE) (or crop water productivity) with little or no reduction in yield using an irrigation regime that applies less water during growth stages that are less sensitive to water stress. Our hypothesis was that a soil moisture-based irrigation management approach in research fields would give similar results in large production-scale, center-pivot irrigated fields in Nebraska. To test this hypothesis, IWUE, CWUE, and grain yields were compared in extensive on-farm research located at eight locations over two years (16 site-years), representing more than 600 ha of irrigated maize area. In each site-year, two contiguous center-pivot irrigated maize fields with similar topography, soil properties, and crop management practices received different irrigation regimes: one was managed by UNL researchers, and the other was managed by the farmer at each site. Irrigation management in farmer-managed fields relied on the farmers\u2019 traditional visual observations and personal expertise, whereas irrigation timing in the UNL-managed fields was based on pre-determined soil water depletion thresholds measured using soil moisture sensors, as well as crop phenology predicted by a crop simulation model using a combination of real-time (in-season) and historical weather data. The soil moisture-based irrigation regime resulted in greater soil water depletion, which decreased irrigation requirements and enabled more timely irrigation management in the UNL-managed fields in both years (34% and 32% less irrigation application compared with farmer-managed fields in 2007 and 2008, respectively). The average actual crop evapotranspiration (ETC) for the UNL- and farmer-managed fields for all sites in 2007 was 487 and 504 mm, respectively. In 2008, the average UNL and average farmer-managed field had seasonal ETC of 511 and 548 mm, respectively. Thus, when the average of all sites is considered, the UNL-managed fields had 3% and 7% less ETC than the farmer-managed fields in 2007 and 2008, respectively, although the percentage was much higher for some of the farmer-managed fields. In both years, differences in grain yield between the UNL and farmer-managed fields were not statistically significant (p = 0.75). On-farm implementation of irrigation management strategies resulted in a 38% and 30% increase in IWUE in the UNL-managed fields in 2007 and 2008, respectively. On average, the CWUE value for the UNL-managed fields was 4% higher than those in the farmer-managed fields in both years. Reduction in irrigation water withdrawal in UNL-managed fields resulted in $32.00 to $74.10 ha-1 in 2007 and $44.46 to $66.50 ha-1 in 2008 in energy saving and additional net return to the farm income. The results from this study can have significant positive implications in future irrigation management of irrigated maize systems in regions with similar soil and crop management practices.", "keywords": ["Civil and Environmental Engineering", "0106 biological sciences", "571", "Environmental Engineering", "550", "Other Civil and Environmental Engineering", "2204 Biomedical Engineering", "1107 Forestry", "01 natural sciences", "630", "Engineering", "1102 Agronomy and Crop Science", "1106 Food Science", "1111 Soil Science", "2. Zero hunger", "Evapotranspiration", "Bioresource and Agricultural Engineering", "Water productivity", "Water use efficiency", "04 agricultural and veterinary sciences", "15. Life on land", "6. Clean water", "Maize", "Irrigation management", "0401 agriculture", " forestry", " and fisheries", "Soil moisture"], "contacts": [{"organization": "Irmak, S., Burgert, M. J., Yang, H. S., Cassman, K. G., Walters, D. T., Rathje, W. R., Payero, J. O., Grassini, P., Kuzila, M. S., Brunkhorst, K. J., Eisenhauer, D. E., Kranz, W. L., VanDeWalle, B., Rees, J. M., Zoubek, G. L., Shapiro, C. A., Teichmeier, G. J.,", "roles": ["creator"]}]}, "links": [{"href": "https://doi.org/10.13031/2013.41521"}, {"rel": "related", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main/items/Transactions%20of%20the%20ASABE", "name": "related record", "description": "related record", "type": "application/json"}, {"rel": "self", "type": "application/geo+json", "title": "10.13031/2013.41521", "name": "item", "description": "10.13031/2013.41521", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main/items/10.13031/2013.41521"}, {"rel": "collection", "type": "application/json", "title": "Collection", "name": "collection", "description": "Collection", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main"}], "time": {"date": "2012-01-01T00:00:00Z"}}, {"id": "10.15201/hungeobull.68.2.2", "type": "Feature", "geometry": null, "properties": {"license": "Open Access", "updated": "2026-09-21T16:18:22Z", "type": "Journal Article", "created": "2019-07-02", "title": "Citizen observatory based soil moisture monitoring \u2013 the GROW example", "description": "GROW Observatory is a project funded under the European Union\u2019s Horizon 2020 research and innovation program. Its aim is to establish a large scale (more than 20,000 participants), resilient and integrated \u2018Citizen Observatory\u2019 (CO) and community for environmental monitoring that is self-sustaining beyond the life of the project. This article describes how the initial framework and tools were developed to evolve, bring together and train such a community; raising interest, engaging participants, and educating to support reliable observations, measurements and documentation, and considerations with a special focus on the reliability of the resulting dataset for scientific purposes. The scientific purposes of GROW observatory are to test the data\u00a0 quality and the spatial representativity of a citizen engagement driven spatial distribution as reliably inputs for soil moisture monitoring and to create timely series of gridded soil moisture products based on citizens\u2019 observations using low cost soil moisture (SM) sensors, and to provide an extensive dataset of in situ soil moisture observations which can serve as a reference to validate satellite-based SM products and support the Copernicus in situ component. This article aims to showcase the initial steps of setting up such a monitoring network that has been reached at the mid-way point of the project\u2019s funded period, focusing mainly on the design and development of the CO monitoring network.", "keywords": ["Planning and Development", "Crowdsourced data", "570", "Geography (General)", "550", "Soil moisture monitoring", "crowdsourced data", "0207 environmental engineering", "/dk/atira/pure/subjectarea/asjc/3300/3305", "02 engineering and technology", "Citizen science", "15. Life on land", "name=General Earth and Planetary Sciences", "name=Geography", "Citizen observatory", "12. Responsible consumption", "13. Climate action", "citizen science", "11. Sustainability", "soil moisture monitoring", "G1-922", "/dk/atira/pure/subjectarea/asjc/1900/1900", "citizen observatory"]}, "links": [{"href": "http://pure.iiasa.ac.at/id/eprint/16020/1/document%20%281%29.pdf"}, {"href": "https://pure.iiasa.ac.at/id/eprint/16020/1/document%20%281%29.pdf"}, {"href": "https://doi.org/10.15201/hungeobull.68.2.2"}, {"rel": "related", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main/items/Hungarian%20Geographical%20Bulletin", "name": "related record", "description": "related record", "type": "application/json"}, {"rel": "self", "type": "application/geo+json", "title": "10.15201/hungeobull.68.2.2", "name": "item", "description": "10.15201/hungeobull.68.2.2", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main/items/10.15201/hungeobull.68.2.2"}, {"rel": "collection", "type": "application/json", "title": "Collection", "name": "collection", "description": "Collection", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main"}], "time": {"date": "2019-07-01T00:00:00Z"}}, {"id": "10.17221/60/2023-swr", "type": "Feature", "geometry": null, "properties": {"updated": "2026-09-21T16:18:34Z", "type": "Journal Article", "created": "2023-10-03", "title": "Seasonal variations of vegetative indices and their correlation with evapotranspiration and soil water storage in a small agricultural catchment", "description": "Open AccessA precise measurement of evapotranspiration (ET) and soil water storage (SWS) is necessary for crop management and understanding hydrological processes in agricultural catchments. In this study, we extracted the vegetative indices (VIs, including normalised difference vegetation index (NDVI), soil-adjusted vegetation index (SAVI), and enhanced vegetation index (EVI)) from satellite images of the Nu\u010dice catchment. We found a consistent seasonal pattern of VIs across the catchment with higher values and variation ranges during spring and summer and lower values and variation ranges during autumn and winter. Spatial variation of VIs also followed a seasonal trend, decreasing during crop growth and increasing after crop harvesting. Seasonal correlations were observed between monthly average ET and SWS with VIs throughout one crop season, which can be expressed mathematically as exponential functions. We propose that VIs can be used as a surrogate measure for ET and SWS in catchments with poor monitoring capabilities. Further studies are required to investigate the spatial distribution of ET and SWS throughout the watershed and their relationship with VIs. Furthermore, our research emphasises the importance of subsurface recharge in the water balance of the investigated fields. It suggests that subsurface flow may be influenced by potential gradients of the water table, driving its seasonal behaviour in response to bedrock morphology.", "keywords": ["catchment hydrology", "2. Zero hunger", "S", "0207 environmental engineering", "Agriculture", "04 agricultural and veterinary sciences", "02 engineering and technology", "Remote sensing", "15. Life on land", "6. Clean water", "remote sensing", "water balance", "0401 agriculture", " forestry", " and fisheries", "Soil moisture", "soil moisture", "Catchment hydrology", "Water balance"]}, "links": [{"href": "http://swr.agriculturejournals.cz/doi/10.17221/60/2023-SWR.pdf"}, {"href": "https://doi.org/10.17221/60/2023-swr"}, {"rel": "related", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main/items/Soil%20and%20Water%20Research", "name": "related record", "description": "related record", "type": "application/json"}, {"rel": "self", "type": "application/geo+json", "title": "10.17221/60/2023-swr", "name": "item", "description": "10.17221/60/2023-swr", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main/items/10.17221/60/2023-swr"}, {"rel": "collection", "type": "application/json", "title": "Collection", "name": "collection", "description": "Collection", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main"}], "time": {"date": "2023-10-30T00:00:00Z"}}, {"id": "10.3390/rs13142667", "type": "Feature", "geometry": null, "properties": {"updated": "2026-09-21T16:19:30Z", "type": "Journal Article", "created": "2021-07-07", "title": "Irrigation amounts and timing retrieval through data assimilation of surface soil moisture into the FAO-56 approach in the South Mediterranean region", "description": "<p>Agricultural water use represents more than 70% of the world\uffe2\uff80\uff99s freshwater through irrigation water inputs that are poorly known at the field scale. Irrigation monitoring is thus an important issue for optimizing water use in particular with regards to the water scarcity that the semi-arid regions are already facing. In this context, the aim of this study is to develop and evaluate a new approach to predict seasonal to daily irrigation timing and amounts at the field scale. The method is based on surface soil moisture (SSM) data assimilated into a simple land surface (FAO-56) model through a particle filter technique based on an ensemble of irrigation scenarios. The approach is implemented in three steps. First, synthetic experiments are designed to assess the impact of the frequency of observation, the errors on SSM and the a priori constraints on the irrigation scenarios for different irrigation techniques (flooding and drip). In a second step, the method is evaluated using in situ SSM measurements with different revisit times (3, 6 and 12 days) to mimic the available SSM product derived from remote sensing observation. Finally, SSM estimates from Sentinel-1 are used. Data are collected on different wheat fields grown in Morocco, for both flood and drip irrigation techniques in addition to rainfed fields used for an indirect evaluation of the method performance. Using in situ data, accurate results are obtained. With an observation every 6 days to mimic the Sentinel-1 revisit time, the seasonal amounts are retrieved with R &gt; 0.98, RMSE &lt; 32 mm and bias &lt; 2.5 mm. Likewise, a good agreement is observed at the daily scale for flood irrigation as more than 70% of the detected irrigation events have a time difference from actual irrigation events shorter than 4 days. Over the drip irrigated fields, the statistical metrics are R = 0.74, RMSE = 24.8 mm and bias = 2.3 mm for irrigation amounts cumulated over 15 days. When using SSM products derived from Sentinel-1 data, the statistical metrics on 15-day cumulated amounts slightly dropped to R = 0.64, RMSE = 28.7 mm and bias = 1.9 mm. The metrics on the seasonal amount retrievals are close to assimilating in situ observations with R = 0.99, RMSE = 33.5 mm and bias = \uffe2\uff88\uff9218.8 mm. Finally, among four rainfed seasons, only one false event was detected. This study opens perspectives for the regional retrieval of irrigation amounts and timing at the field scale and for mapping irrigated/non irrigated areas.</p>", "keywords": ["550", "Science", "particle filters", "0207 environmental engineering", "02 engineering and technology", "01 natural sciences", "irrigation timing and amounts", "Irrigation Amounts and Timing Retrieval through Data Assimilation of Surface Soil Moisture irrigation timing and amounts", "[SDU.STU.HY]Sciences of the Universe [physics]/Earth Sciences/Hydrology", "semi-arid Mediterranean region", "data assimilation", "0105 earth and related environmental sciences", "FAO-56", "2. Zero hunger", "Q", "15. 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Although the conventional approach to monitor heavy metals relies on field sampling and lab analysis, the proliferation in the use of portable spectrometers has reduced the cost and time of investigation. However, discrepancies in spectral data from different spectrometers increase the modeling time and undermine the model accuracy for spatial mapping. This study, therefore, took advantage of the readily accessible Landsat 7 data to predict and map the spatiotemporal distribution of ten heavy metals (i.e., Sb, Pb, Ni, Mn, Hg, Cu, Cr, Co, Cd and As) over a 640 km2 area in Belgium. The Land Use/Cover Area Frame Survey (LUCAS) database of a region in north-eastern Belgium was used to retrieve variation in heavy metals concentrations over time and space, using the Landsat 7 imagery for four single dates in 2009, 2013, 2016 and 2020. Three regression methods, namely, partial least squares regression (PLSR), random forest (RF) and support vector machine (SVM) were used to model and predict the heavy metal concentrations for 2009. By comparing these models unbiasedly, the best model was selected for predicting and mapping the heavy metal distributions for 2013, 2016 and 2020. RF turned out to be the optimal model for 2009 with a coefficient of determination of prediction (R2P) and residual prediction deviation of prediction (RPDP) ranging from 0.62 to 0.92, and 1.23 to 2.79, respectively. The measured heavy metal distributions along the river floodplains, at the highlands and in the lowlands, were generally high, compared to their RF spatiotemporal predictions, which decreased over time. Increasing moisture contents in the floodplains adjacent to the river channels and the lowlands were the primary contributors to the reduction in the satellite reflectance spectra. However, topsoil erosion from rainfall, snowmelt as well as wind into the lowlands could have influenced the reduction in heavy metal spatiotemporal predicted values over time in the highlands. The spatiotemporal prediction maps produced for the heavy metals for the four different years revealed a good spatial similarity and consistency with the measured maps for 2009, which indicates their stability over the years.</p></article>", "keywords": ["PROVINCE", "Landsat 7", "analysis", "Science", "random forest (RF)", "MOISTURE", "01 natural sciences", "NIR SPECTROSCOPY", "spatiotemporal analysis", "AGRICULTURAL SOILS", "spatiotemporal", "0105 earth and related environmental sciences", "2. Zero hunger", "RANGE", "Q", "04 agricultural and veterinary sciences", "15. Life on land", "6. Clean water", "3. Good health", "MULTIVARIATE", "TOPSOILS", "13. Climate action", "Earth and Environmental Sciences", "soil heavy metal; Landsat 7; partial least squares regression (PLSR); random forest (RF); support vector machine (SVM); spatiotemporal analysis", "0401 agriculture", " forestry", " and fisheries", "support vector machine (SVM)", "soil heavy metal", "partial least squares regression (PLSR)"]}, "links": [{"href": "http://www.mdpi.com/2072-4292/13/22/4615/pdf"}, {"href": "https://www.mdpi.com/2072-4292/13/22/4615/pdf"}, {"href": "https://doi.org/10.3390/rs13224615"}, {"rel": "related", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main/items/Remote%20Sensing", "name": "related record", "description": "related record", "type": "application/json"}, {"rel": "self", "type": "application/geo+json", "title": "10.3390/rs13224615", "name": "item", "description": "10.3390/rs13224615", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main/items/10.3390/rs13224615"}, {"rel": "collection", "type": "application/json", "title": "Collection", "name": "collection", "description": "Collection", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main"}], "time": {"date": "2021-11-16T00:00:00Z"}}, {"id": "10.3390/su13073732", "type": "Feature", "geometry": null, "properties": {"updated": "2026-09-21T16:19:32Z", "type": "Journal Article", "created": "2021-03-26", "title": "The Optimisation Analysis of Sand-Clay Mixtures Stabilised with Xanthan Gum Biopolymers", "description": "<p>Sand\uffe2\uff80\uff93clay mixtures can be encountered in both natural soils (e.g., residual soils, clay deposits and clinosols) and artificial fills. The method of utilising biopolymers in ground improvement for sand\uffe2\uff80\uff93clay mixtures has emerged recently. However, a full understanding of the strengthening effect of biopolymer-treated sand\uffe2\uff80\uff93clay mixtures has not yet been achieved due to a limited number of relevant studies. In this study, xanthan gum (XG), as one of the eco-friendly biopolymers, was used to treat reconstituted sand\uffe2\uff80\uff93clay mixtures that had various compositions in related to clay (or sand) content and clay type (kaolin and bentonite). A series of laboratory unconfined compression strength (UCS) tests were conducted to probe the performances of XG-treated sand\uffe2\uff80\uff93clay mixtures from two aspects, i.e., optimum treatment conditions (e.g., XG content and initial moisture content) to achieve the maximum strengthening effect and strengthening efficiency for the sand\uffe2\uff80\uff93clay mixtures with different compositions. The experimental results indicated that the optimum initial moisture content decreased as the sand content increased. The optimum XG content, which also decreased with the increasing sand content, remained approximately 3.75% for all sand\uffe2\uff80\uff93kaolin mixtures and 5.75% for all sand\uffe2\uff80\uff93bentonite mixtures if calculated based on clay fraction. While untreated sand\uffe2\uff80\uff93kaolin mixtures and sand\uffe2\uff80\uff93bentonite mixtures had comparable UCS values, XG-treated sand\uffe2\uff80\uff93kaolin mixtures seemed to have better improved mechanical strength due to higher ionic (or hydrogen) bonds with XG and low-swelling properties compared with bentonite. The deformation modulus of XG-treated sand\uffe2\uff80\uff93clay mixtures were positively related with UCS. The variation in UCS and stiffness for each treatment condition increased as the sand content was elevated for both sand-kaolin and sand-bentonite mixtures. An increment in the proportion of the heterogeneous composite formed by irregular sand particles conglomerated with the XG\uffe2\uff80\uff93clay matrix in total soil might be responsible for this phenomenon.</p>", "keywords": ["Civil and Environmental Engineering", "TP", "initial moisture content", "engrXiv|Engineering|Civil and Environmental Engineering|Civil Engineering", "bepress|Engineering", "bentonite", "xanthan gum", "QK", "TN", "0211 other engineering and technologies", "sand-clay mixture", "02 engineering and technology", "uniaxial compressive strength tests", "bepress|Engineering|Civil and Environmental Engineering|Civil Engineering", "Civil Engineering", "6. Clean water", "Engineering", "engrXiv|Engineering", "TA", "bepress|Engineering|Civil and Environmental Engineering", "engrXiv|Engineering|Civil and Environmental Engineering", "QE", "kaolin", "biopolymer content"], "contacts": [{"organization": "Geng, Xueyu, Ma, Lei, Hao, Gang-Lai, Ni, Jing, Chen, Jia-Qi,", "roles": ["creator"]}]}, "links": [{"href": "http://wrap.warwick.ac.uk/150469/7/WRAP-Optimisation-analysis-sand-clay-mixtures-stabilised-xanthan-gum-biopolymers-2021.pdf"}, {"href": "http://www.mdpi.com/2071-1050/13/7/3732/pdf"}, {"href": "https://www.mdpi.com/2071-1050/13/7/3732/pdf"}, {"href": "https://doi.org/10.3390/su13073732"}, {"rel": "related", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main/items/Sustainability", "name": "related record", "description": "related record", "type": "application/json"}, {"rel": "self", "type": "application/geo+json", "title": "10.3390/su13073732", "name": "item", "description": "10.3390/su13073732", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main/items/10.3390/su13073732"}, {"rel": "collection", "type": "application/json", "title": "Collection", "name": "collection", "description": "Collection", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main"}], "time": {"date": "2021-03-26T00:00:00Z"}}, {"id": "10.3390/w12082160", "type": "Feature", "geometry": null, "properties": {"updated": "2026-09-21T16:19:34Z", "type": "Journal Article", "created": "2020-08-03", "title": "Soil Moisture Estimation Using Citizen Observatory Data, Microwave Satellite Imagery, and Environmental Covariates", "description": "<?xml version='1.0' encoding='UTF-8'?><article><p>Soil moisture (SM) is a key variable in the climate system and a key parameter in earth surface processes. This study aimed to test the citizen observatory (CO) data to develop a method to estimate surface SM distribution using Sentinel-1B C-band Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR) and Landsat 8 data; acquired between January 2019 and June 2019. An agricultural region of Tard in western Hungary was chosen as the study area. In situ soil moisture measurements in the uppermost 10 cm were carried out in 36 test fields simultaneously with SAR data acquisition. The effects of environmental covariates and the backscattering coefficient on SM were analyzed to perform SM estimation procedures. Three approaches were developed and compared for a continuous four-month period, using multiple regression analysis, regression-kriging and cokriging with the digital elevation model (DEM), and Sentinel-1B C-band and Landsat 8 images. CO data were evaluated over the landscape by expert knowledge and found to be representative of the major SM distribution processes but also presenting some indifferent short-range variability that was difficult to explain at this scale. The proposed models were evaluated using statistical metrics: The coefficient of determination (R2) and root mean square error (RMSE). Multiple linear regression provides more realistic spatial patterns over the landscape, even in a data-poor environment. Regression kriging was found to be a potential tool to refine the results, while ordinary cokriging was found to be less effective. The obtained results showed that CO data complemented with Sentinel-1B SAR, Landsat 8, and terrain data has the potential to estimate and map soil moisture content.</p></article>", "keywords": ["13. Climate action", "citizen science", "digital soil mapping", "Sentinel-1", "0401 agriculture", " forestry", " and fisheries", "synthetic aperture radar (SAR)", " soil moisture", "04 agricultural and veterinary sciences", "15. Life on land"]}, "links": [{"href": "http://www.mdpi.com/2073-4441/12/8/2160/pdf"}, {"href": "https://doi.org/10.3390/w12082160"}, {"rel": "related", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main/items/Water", "name": "related record", "description": "related record", "type": "application/json"}, {"rel": "self", "type": "application/geo+json", "title": "10.3390/w12082160", "name": "item", "description": "10.3390/w12082160", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main/items/10.3390/w12082160"}, {"rel": "collection", "type": "application/json", "title": "Collection", "name": "collection", "description": "Collection", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main"}], "time": {"date": "2020-07-30T00:00:00Z"}}, {"id": "10.5194/isprs-archives-xlii-3-w6-9-2019", "type": "Feature", "geometry": null, "properties": {"updated": "2026-09-21T16:20:06Z", "type": "Journal Article", "created": "2019-07-29", "title": "EVAPOTRANSPIRATION AND EVAPORATION/TRANSPIRATION RETRIEVAL USING DUAL-SOURCE SURFACE ENERGY BALANCE MODELS INTEGRATING VIS/NIR/TIR DATA WITH SATELLITE SURFACE SOIL MOISTURE INFORMATION", "description": "<?xml version='1.0' encoding='UTF-8'?><article><p>Abstract. Evapotranspiration is an important component of the water cycle. For the agronomic management and ecosystem health monitoring, it is also important to provide an estimate of evapotranspiration components, i.e. transpiration and soil evaporation. To do so, Thermal InfraRed data can be used with dual-source surface energy balance models, because they solve separate energy budgets for the soil and the vegetation. But those models rely on specific assumptions on raw levels of plant water stress to get both components (evaporation and transpiration) out of a single source of information, namely the surface temperature. Additional information from remote sensing data are thus required. This works evaluates the ability of the SPARSE dual-source energy balance model to compute not only total evapotranspiration, but also water stress and transpiration/evaporation components, using either the sole surface temperature as a remote sensing driver, or a combination of surface temperature and soil moisture level derived from microwave data. Flux data at an experimental plot in semi-arid Morocco is used to assess this potentiality and shows the increased robustness of both the total evapotranspiration and partitioning retrieval performances. This work is realized within the frame of the Phase A activities for the TRISHNA CNES/ISRO Thermal Infra-Red satellite mission.                     </p></article>", "keywords": ["Technology", "Environmental Engineering", "550", "Ecosystem Resilience", "Soil Moisture", "Evaporation", "Energy balance", "Biochemistry", "Environmental science", "Transpiration", "Meteorology", "Artificial Intelligence", "Soil water", "Thermal Infrared", "Applied optics. Photonics", "Machine Learning Methods for Solar Radiation Forecasting", "Photosynthesis", "TRISHNA", "Water balance", "Biology", "Soil science", "Global and Planetary Change", "Water content", "Evapotranspiration", "Geography", "Ecology", "Global Forest Drought Response and Climate Change", "T", "FOS: Environmental engineering", "Geology", "FOS: Earth and related environmental sciences", "Remote sensing", "15. Life on land", "Engineering (General). Civil engineering (General)", "Remote Sensing of Soil Moisture", "6. Clean water", "TA1501-1820", "[SDE.MCG] Environmental Sciences/Global Changes", "Chemistry", "Geotechnical engineering", "13. Climate action", "FOS: Biological sciences", "Environmental Science", "Physical Sciences", "Computer Science", "TA1-2040", "Water cycle"]}, "links": [{"href": "https://doi.org/10.5194/isprs-archives-xlii-3-w6-9-2019"}, {"rel": "related", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main/items/The%20International%20Archives%20of%20the%20Photogrammetry%2C%20Remote%20Sensing%20and%20Spatial%20Information%20Sciences", "name": "related record", "description": "related record", "type": "application/json"}, {"rel": "self", "type": "application/geo+json", "title": "10.5194/isprs-archives-xlii-3-w6-9-2019", "name": "item", "description": "10.5194/isprs-archives-xlii-3-w6-9-2019", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main/items/10.5194/isprs-archives-xlii-3-w6-9-2019"}, {"rel": "collection", "type": "application/json", "title": "Collection", "name": "collection", "description": "Collection", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main"}], "time": {"date": "2019-07-26T00:00:00Z"}}, {"id": "10.5194/hess-2019-105", "type": "Feature", "geometry": null, "properties": {"updated": "2026-09-21T16:20:05Z", "type": "Journal Article", "created": "2019-04-23", "title": "An evapotranspiration model self-calibrated from remotely sensed surface soil moisture, land surface temperature and vegetation cover fraction: application to disaggregated SMOS and MODIS data", "description": "<?xml version='1.0' encoding='UTF-8'?><article><p>Abstract. Thermal-based two-source energy balance modeling is very useful for estimating the land evapotranspiration (ET) at a wide range of spatial and temporal scales. However, the land surface temperature (LST) is not sufficient for constraining simultaneously both soil and vegetation flux components in such a way that assumptions (on either the soil or the vegetation fluxes) are commonly required. To avoid such assumptions, a new energy balance model (TSEB-SM) was recently developed in Ait Hssaine et al. (2018a) to integrate the microwave-derived near-surface soil moisture (SM), in addition to the thermal-derived LST and vegetation cover fraction (fc). Whereas, TSEB-SM has been recently tested using in-situ measurements, the objective of this paper is to evaluate the performance of TSEB-SM in real-life using 1\u2009km resolution MODIS (Moderate resolution imaging spectroradiometer) LST and fc data and the 1\u2009km resolution SM data disaggregated from SMOS (Soil Moisture and Ocean Salinity) observations by using DisPATCh. The approach is applied during a four-year period (2014\u20132018) over a rainfed wheat field in the Tensift basin, central Morocco, during a four-year period (2014\u20132018). The field was seeded for the 2014\u20132015 (S1), 2016\u20132017 (S2) and 2017\u20132018 (S3) agricultural season, while it was not ploughed (remained as bare soil) during the 2015\u20132016 (B1) agricultural season. The mean retrieved values of (arss, brss) calculated for the entire study period using satellite data are (7.32, 4.58). The daily calibrated \u03b1PT ranges between 0 and 1.38 for both S1 and S2. Its temporal variability is mainly attributed to the rainfall distribution along the agricultural season. For S3, the daily retrieved \u03b1PT remains at a mostly constant value (\u223c\u20090.7) throughout the study period, because of the lack of clear sky disaggregated SM and LST observations during this season. Compared to eddy covariance measurements, TSEB driven only by LST and fc data significantly overestimates latent heat fluxes for the four seasons. The overall mean bias values are 119, 94, 128 and 181\u2009W/m2 for S1, S2, S3 and B1 respectively. In contrast, these errors are much reduced when using TSEB-SM (SM and LST combined data) with the mean bias values estimated as 39, 4, 7 and 62\u2009W/m2 for S1, S2, S3 and B1 respectively.                         </p></article>", "keywords": ["Technology", "Atmospheric sciences", "550", "Soil Moisture", "0208 environmental biotechnology", "02 engineering and technology", "Environmental technology. 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Life underwater", "[SDU.STU.HY]Sciences of the Universe [physics]/Earth Sciences/Hydrology", "Biology", "Civil and Structural Engineering", "0105 earth and related environmental sciences", "Global Forest Drought Response and Climate Change", "FOS: Environmental engineering", "FOS: Earth and related environmental sciences", "15. Life on land", "Remote Sensing of Soil Moisture", "Environmental sciences", "Geotechnical engineering", "[SDU]Sciences of the Universe [physics]", "Satellite", "13. Climate action", "FOS: Biological sciences", "Environmental Science", "Land use", "[SDU.STU.HY] Sciences of the Universe [physics]/Earth Sciences/Hydrology", "[SDU.ENVI]Sciences of the Universe [physics]/Continental interfaces", "FOS: Civil engineering"]}, "links": [{"href": "https://hess.copernicus.org/articles/24/1781/2020/hess-24-1781-2020.pdf"}, {"href": "https://doi.org/10.5194/hess-2019-105"}, {"rel": "related", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main/items/Hydrology%20and%20Earth%20System%20Sciences", "name": "related record", "description": "related record", "type": "application/json"}, {"rel": "self", "type": "application/geo+json", "title": "10.5194/hess-2019-105", "name": "item", "description": "10.5194/hess-2019-105", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main/items/10.5194/hess-2019-105"}, {"rel": "collection", "type": "application/json", "title": "Collection", "name": "collection", "description": "Collection", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main"}], "time": {"date": "2019-04-23T00:00:00Z"}}, {"id": "10.3389/fmicb.2016.01032", "type": "Feature", "geometry": null, "properties": {"updated": "2026-09-21T16:19:15Z", "type": "Journal Article", "created": "2016-06-30", "title": "Effects Of Short-Term Warming And Altered Precipitation On Soil Microbial Communities In Alpine Grassland Of The Tibetan Plateau", "description": "Open AccessSoil microbial communities are influenced by climate change drivers such as warming and altered precipitation. These changes create abiotic stresses, including desiccation and nutrient limitation, which act on microbes. However, our understanding of the responses of microbial communities to co-occurring climate change drivers is limited. We surveyed soil bacterial and fungal diversity and composition after a 1-year warming and altered precipitation manipulation in the Tibetan plateau alpine grassland. In isolation, warming and decreased precipitation treatments each had no significant effects on soil bacterial community structure; however, in combination of both treatments altered bacterial community structure (p = 0.03). The main effect of altered precipitation specifically impacted the relative abundances of Bacteroidetes and Gammaproteobacteria compared to the control, while the main effect of warming impacted the relative abundance of Betaproteobacteria. In contrast, the fungal community had no significant response to the treatments after 1-year. Using structural equation modeling (SEM), we found bacterial community composition was positively related to soil moisture. Our results indicate that short-term climate change could cause changes in soil bacterial community through taxonomic shifts. Our work provides new insights into immediate soil microbial responses to short-term stressors acting on an ecosystem that is particularly sensitive to global climate change.", "keywords": ["Abiotic component", "Microbial population biology", "Climate Change", "Soil Science", "Precipitation", "soil microbial community structure", "Microbiology", "Mathematical analysis", "Environmental science", "Agricultural and Biological Sciences", "Meteorology", "11. Sustainability", "FOS: Mathematics", "Genetics", "Climate change", "alpine grassland", "Biology", "Ecosystem", "2. Zero hunger", "Plateau (mathematics)", "Ecology", "Geography", "Bacteria", "Global warming", "Marine Microbial Diversity and Biogeography", "Life Sciences", "Microbial Diversity in Antarctic Ecosystems", "15. Life on land", "Grassland", "Community structure", "climate change", "pyrosequencing", "13. Climate action", "FOS: Biological sciences", "Environmental Science", "Physical Sciences", "soil moisture", "Soil Carbon Dynamics and Nutrient Cycling in Ecosystems", "Mathematics"]}, "links": [{"href": "https://doi.org/10.3389/fmicb.2016.01032"}, {"rel": "related", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main/items/Frontiers%20in%20Microbiology", "name": "related record", "description": "related record", "type": "application/json"}, {"rel": "self", "type": "application/geo+json", "title": "10.3389/fmicb.2016.01032", "name": "item", "description": "10.3389/fmicb.2016.01032", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main/items/10.3389/fmicb.2016.01032"}, {"rel": "collection", "type": "application/json", "title": "Collection", "name": "collection", "description": "Collection", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main"}], "time": {"date": "2016-06-30T00:00:00Z"}}, {"id": "10.5194/hess-22-4513-2018", "type": "Feature", "geometry": null, "properties": {"updated": "2026-09-21T16:20:05Z", "type": "Journal Article", "created": "2018-08-27", "title": "Exploring the merging of the global land evaporation WACMOS-ET products based on local tower measurements", "description": "<p>Abstract. An inverse error variance weighting of the anomalies of three terrestrial evaporation (ET) products from the WACMOS-ET project based on FLUXNET sites is presented. The three ET models were run daily and at a resolution of 25\uffe2\uff80\uff89km for 2002\uffe2\uff80\uff932007, and based on common input data when possible. The local weights, derived based on the variance of the difference between the tower ET anomalies and the modelled ET anomalies, were made dynamic by estimating them using a 61-day running window centred on each day. These were then extrapolated from the tower locations to the global landscape by regressing them on the main model inputs and derived ET using a neural network. Over the stations, the weighted scheme usefully decreased the random error component, and the weighted ET correlated better with the tower data than a simple average. The global extrapolation produced weights displaying strong seasonal and geographical patterns, which translated into spatiotemporal differences between the ET weighted and simple average ET products. However, the uncertainty of the weights after the extrapolation remained large. Out-sample prediction tests showed that the tower data set, mostly located at temperate regions, had limitations with respect to the representation of different biome and climate conditions. Therefore, even if the local weighting was successful, the extrapolation to a global scale remains problematic, showing a limited added value over the simple average. Overall, this study suggests that merging tower observations and ET products at the timescales and spatial scales of this study is complicated by the tower spatial representativeness, the products' coarse spatial resolution, the nature of the error in both towers and gridded data sets, and how all these factors impact the weights extrapolation from the tower locations to the global landscape.                     </p>", "keywords": ["Technology", "550", "SPATIAL VARIABILITY", "0207 environmental engineering", "FLUX MEASUREMENTS", "02 engineering and technology", "SOIL-MOISTURE", "Environmental technology. Sanitary engineering", "01 natural sciences", "[PHYS] Physics [physics]", "G", "ENERGY-BALANCE CLOSURE", "Geography. Anthropology. Recreation", "GE1-350", "TD1-1066", "0105 earth and related environmental sciences", "[PHYS]Physics [physics]", "EVAPOTRANSPIRATION ESTIMATION", "CARBON-DIOXIDE EXCHANGE", "T", "DECIDUOUS FOREST", "EDDY-COVARIANCE", "Environmental sciences", "TEMPERATE FOREST", "13. Climate action", "Earth and Environmental Sciences", "[PHYS.ASTR]Physics [physics]/Astrophysics [astro-ph]", "INTERANNUAL VARIABILITY", "[PHYS.ASTR] Physics [physics]/Astrophysics [astro-ph]"]}, "links": [{"href": "https://hess.copernicus.org/articles/22/4513/2018/hess-22-4513-2018.pdf"}, {"href": "https://doi.org/10.5194/hess-22-4513-2018"}, {"rel": "related", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main/items/Hydrology%20and%20Earth%20System%20Sciences", "name": "related record", "description": "related record", "type": "application/json"}, {"rel": "self", "type": "application/geo+json", "title": "10.5194/hess-22-4513-2018", "name": "item", "description": "10.5194/hess-22-4513-2018", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main/items/10.5194/hess-22-4513-2018"}, {"rel": "collection", "type": "application/json", "title": "Collection", "name": "collection", "description": "Collection", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main"}], "time": {"date": "2018-08-27T00:00:00Z"}}, {"id": "10.5194/hess-2018-94", "type": "Feature", "geometry": null, "properties": {"updated": "2026-09-21T16:20:05Z", "type": "Journal Article", "created": "2018-04-05", "title": "The value of satellite remote sensing soil moisture data and the DISPATCH algorithm in irrigation fields", "description": "<?xml version='1.0' encoding='UTF-8'?><article><p>Abstract. Soil moisture measurements are needed in a large number of applications such as climate change, watershed water balance and irrigation management. One of the main characteristics of this property is that soil moisture is highly variable with both space and time, hindering the estimation of a representative value. Deciding how to measure soil moisture before undertaking any type of study is therefore an important issue that needs to be addressed correctly. Nowadays, different kinds of methodologies exist for measuring soil moisture; Remote Sensing, soil moisture sensors or gravimetric measurements. This work is focused on how to measure soil moisture for irrigation scheduling, where soil moisture sensors are the main methodology for monitoring soil moisture. One of its disadvantages, however, is that soil moisture sensors measure a small volume of soil, and do not take into account the existing variability in the field. In contrast, Remote Sensing techniques are able to estimate soil moisture with a low spatial resolution, and thus it is not possible to apply these estimations to agricultural applications. In order to solve this problem, different kinds of algorithms have been developed for downscaling these estimations from low to high resolution. The DISPATCH algorithm downscales soil moisture estimations from 40\u2009km to 1\u2009km resolution using SMOS satellite soil moisture, NDVI and LST from MODIS sensor estimations. In this work, DISPATCH estimations are compared with soil moisture sensors and gravimetric measurements to validate the DISPATCH algorithm in two different hydrologic scenarios; (1) when wet conditions are maintained around the field for rainfall events, and (2) when it is local irrigation that maintains wet conditions. Results show that the DISPATCH algorithm is sensitive when soil moisture is homogenized during general rainfall events, but not when local irrigation generates occasional heterogeneity. In order to explain these different behaviours, we have examined the spatial variability scales of NDVI and LST data, which are the variables involved in the downscaling process provided by the MODIS sensor. Sample variograms show that the spatial scales associated with the NDVI and LST properties are too large to represent the variations of the average water content at the site, and this could be a reason for why the DISPATCH algorithm is unable to detect soil moisture increments caused by local irrigation.                         </p></article>", "keywords": ["2. Zero hunger", "Technology", ":Enginyeria civil::Geologia::Hidrologia [\u00c0rees tem\u00e0tiques de la UPC]", "T", "15. Life on land", "Environmental technology. Sanitary engineering", "\u00c0rees tem\u00e0tiques de la UPC::Enginyeria civil::Geologia::Hidrologia", "01 natural sciences", "6. Clean water", "S\u00f2ls -- Humitat -- Mesurament", "G", "Environmental sciences", "13. Climate action", "Geography. Anthropology. Recreation", "GE1-350", "Soil moisture--Measurement--Remote sensing", "TD1-1066", "0105 earth and related environmental sciences"], "contacts": [{"organization": "M. Fontanet, M. Fontanet, M. Fontanet, D. Fern\u00e0ndez-Garcia, D. Fern\u00e0ndez-Garcia, F. Ferrer,", "roles": ["creator"]}]}, "links": [{"href": "https://hess.copernicus.org/articles/22/5889/2018/hess-22-5889-2018.pdf"}, {"href": "https://doi.org/10.5194/hess-2018-94"}, {"rel": "related", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main/items/Hydrology%20and%20Earth%20System%20Sciences", "name": "related record", "description": "related record", "type": "application/json"}, {"rel": "self", "type": "application/geo+json", "title": "10.5194/hess-2018-94", "name": "item", "description": "10.5194/hess-2018-94", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main/items/10.5194/hess-2018-94"}, {"rel": "collection", "type": "application/json", "title": "Collection", "name": "collection", "description": "Collection", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main"}], "time": {"date": "2018-04-05T00:00:00Z"}}, {"id": "10.5194/hess-22-5889-2018", "type": "Feature", "geometry": null, "properties": {"updated": "2026-09-21T16:20:05Z", "type": "Journal Article", "created": "2018-04-05", "title": "The value of satellite remote sensing soil moisture data and the DISPATCH algorithm in irrigation fields", "description": "<p>Abstract. Soil moisture measurements are needed in a large number of applications such as climate change, watershed water balance and irrigation management. One of the main characteristics of this property is that soil moisture is highly variable with both space and time, hindering the estimation of a representative value. Deciding how to measure soil moisture before undertaking any type of study is therefore an important issue that needs to be addressed correctly. Nowadays, different kinds of methodologies exist for measuring soil moisture; Remote Sensing, soil moisture sensors or gravimetric measurements. This work is focused on how to measure soil moisture for irrigation scheduling, where soil moisture sensors are the main methodology for monitoring soil moisture. One of its disadvantages, however, is that soil moisture sensors measure a small volume of soil, and do not take into account the existing variability in the field. In contrast, Remote Sensing techniques are able to estimate soil moisture with a low spatial resolution, and thus it is not possible to apply these estimations to agricultural applications. In order to solve this problem, different kinds of algorithms have been developed for downscaling these estimations from low to high resolution. The DISPATCH algorithm downscales soil moisture estimations from 40\uffe2\uff80\uff89km to 1\uffe2\uff80\uff89km resolution using SMOS satellite soil moisture, NDVI and LST from MODIS sensor estimations. In this work, DISPATCH estimations are compared with soil moisture sensors and gravimetric measurements to validate the DISPATCH algorithm in two different hydrologic scenarios; (1) when wet conditions are maintained around the field for rainfall events, and (2) when it is local irrigation that maintains wet conditions. Results show that the DISPATCH algorithm is sensitive when soil moisture is homogenized during general rainfall events, but not when local irrigation generates occasional heterogeneity. In order to explain these different behaviours, we have examined the spatial variability scales of NDVI and LST data, which are the variables involved in the downscaling process provided by the MODIS sensor. Sample variograms show that the spatial scales associated with the NDVI and LST properties are too large to represent the variations of the average water content at the site, and this could be a reason for why the DISPATCH algorithm is unable to detect soil moisture increments caused by local irrigation.                         </p>", "keywords": ["2. Zero hunger", "Technology", ":Enginyeria civil::Geologia::Hidrologia [\u00c0rees tem\u00e0tiques de la UPC]", "T", "15. Life on land", "Environmental technology. Sanitary engineering", "\u00c0rees tem\u00e0tiques de la UPC::Enginyeria civil::Geologia::Hidrologia", "01 natural sciences", "6. Clean water", "S\u00f2ls -- Humitat -- Mesurament", "G", "Environmental sciences", "13. Climate action", "Geography. Anthropology. Recreation", "GE1-350", "Soil moisture--Measurement--Remote sensing", "TD1-1066", "0105 earth and related environmental sciences"], "contacts": [{"organization": "M. Fontanet, M. Fontanet, M. Fontanet, D. Fern\u00e0ndez-Garcia, D. Fern\u00e0ndez-Garcia, F. Ferrer,", "roles": ["creator"]}]}, "links": [{"href": "https://hess.copernicus.org/articles/22/5889/2018/hess-22-5889-2018.pdf"}, {"href": "https://doi.org/10.5194/hess-22-5889-2018"}, {"rel": "related", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main/items/Hydrology%20and%20Earth%20System%20Sciences", "name": "related record", "description": "related record", "type": "application/json"}, {"rel": "self", "type": "application/geo+json", "title": "10.5194/hess-22-5889-2018", "name": "item", "description": "10.5194/hess-22-5889-2018", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main/items/10.5194/hess-22-5889-2018"}, {"rel": "collection", "type": "application/json", "title": "Collection", "name": "collection", "description": "Collection", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main"}], "time": {"date": "2018-04-05T00:00:00Z"}}, {"id": "10.5194/hess-26-3921-2022", "type": "Feature", "geometry": null, "properties": {"updated": "2026-09-21T16:20:05Z", "type": "Journal Article", "created": "2021-12-23", "title": "High-resolution satellite products improve hydrological modeling in northern Italy", "description": "<p>Abstract. Satellite Earth observations (EO) are an accurate and reliable data source for atmospheric and environmental science. Their increasing spatial and temporal resolution, as well as the seamless availability over ungauged regions, make them appealing for hydrological modeling. This work shows recent advances in the use of high-resolution satellite-based Earth observation data in hydrological modelling. In a set of experiments, the distributed hydrological model Continuum is set up for the Po River Basin (Italy) and forced, in turn, by satellite precipitation and evaporation, while satellite-derived soil moisture and snow depths are ingested into the model structure through a data-assimilation scheme. Further, satellite-based estimates of precipitation, evaporation and river discharge are used for hydrological model calibration, and results are compared with those based on ground observations. Despite the high density of conventional ground measurements and the strong human influence in the focus region, all satellite products show strong potential for operational hydrological applications, with skillful estimates of river discharge throughout the model domain. Satellite-based evaporation and snow depths marginally improve (by 2 % and 4 %) the mean Kling-Gupta efficiency (KGE) at 27 river gauges, compared to a baseline simulation (KGEmean = 0.51) forced by high-quality conventional data. Precipitation has the largest impact on the model output, though the satellite dataset on average shows poorer skills compared to conventional data. Interestingly, a model calibration heavily relying on satellite data, as opposed to conventional data, provides a skillful reconstruction of river discharges, paving the way to fully satellite-driven hydrological applications.                         </p>", "keywords": ["Technology", "DATA", "ASSIMILATION", "Po River", "FLOOD RISK", "0211 other engineering and technologies", "0207 environmental engineering", "UNCERTAINTY", "02 engineering and technology", "high resolution satellite products", "Environmental technology. Sanitary engineering", "01 natural sciences", "G", "Geography. Anthropology. Recreation", "EARTH", "GE1-350", "continuum hydrological model", "RAINFALL", "TD1-1066", "0105 earth and related environmental sciences", "T", "RADAR ALTIMETRY DATA", "LAND-SURFACE", "6. Clean water", "Environmental sciences", "13. Climate action", "Earth and Environmental Sciences", "HYDRODYNAMIC MODEL", "OBSERVATION", "DISCHARGE ESTIMATION", "SOIL-MOISTURE PRODUCTS"]}, "links": [{"href": "https://hess.copernicus.org/articles/26/3921/2022/hess-26-3921-2022.pdf"}, {"href": "https://doi.org/10.5194/hess-26-3921-2022"}, {"rel": "related", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main/items/Hydrology%20and%20Earth%20System%20Sciences", "name": "related record", "description": "related record", "type": "application/json"}, {"rel": "self", "type": "application/geo+json", "title": "10.5194/hess-26-3921-2022", "name": "item", "description": "10.5194/hess-26-3921-2022", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main/items/10.5194/hess-26-3921-2022"}, {"rel": "collection", "type": "application/json", "title": "Collection", "name": "collection", "description": "Collection", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main"}], "time": {"date": "2021-12-23T00:00:00Z"}}, {"id": "3217588385", "type": "Feature", "geometry": null, "properties": {"updated": "2026-09-21T16:23:15Z", "type": "Journal Article", "created": "2021-11-22", "title": "Assimilation of SMAP disaggregated soil moisture and Landsat land surface temperature to improve FAO-56 estimates of ET in semi-arid regions", "description": "Accurate estimation of evapotranspiration (ET) is of crucial importance in water science and hydrological process understanding especially in semi-arid/arid areas since ET represents more than 85% of the total water budget. FAO-56 is one of the widely used formulations to estimate the actual crop evapotranspiration (ET c act) due to its operational nature and since it represents a reasonable compromise between simplicity and accuracy. In this vein, the objective of this paper was to examine the possibility of improving ET c act estimates through remote sensing data assimilation. For this purpose, remotely sensed soil moisture (SM) and Land surface temperature (LST) data were simultaneously assimilated into FAO-dualK c. Surface SM observations were assimilated into the soil evaporation (E s) component through the soil evaporation coefficient, and LST data were assimilated into the actual crop transpiration (T c act) component through the crop stress coefficient. The LST data were used to estimate the water stress coefficient (K s) as a proxy of LST (LST proxy). The FAO-Ks was corrected by assimilating LST proxy derived from Landsat data based on the variances of predicted errors on K s estimates from FAO-56 model and thermal-derived K s. The proposed approach was tested over a semi-arid area in Morocco using first, in situ data collected during 2002-2003 and 2015-2016 wheat growth seasons over two different fields and then, remotely sensed data derived from disaggregated Soil Moisture Active Passive (SMAP) SM and Landsat-LST sensors were used. Assimilating SM data leads to an improvement of the ET c act model prediction: the root mean square error (RMSE) decreased from 0.98 to 0.65 mm/day compared to the classical FAO-dualK c using in situ SM. Moreover, assimilating both in situ SM and LST data provided more accurate results with a RMSE error of 0.55 mm/day. By using SMAP-based SM and Landsat-LST, results also improved in comparison with standard FAO and reached a RMSE of 0.73 mm/day against eddy-covariance ET c act measurements.", "keywords": ["0106 biological sciences", "2. Zero hunger", "Evapotranspiration", "550", "Evapotranspiration Data assimilation FAO-dualK c Soil moisture Land surface temperature", "0207 environmental engineering", "02 engineering and technology", "15. Life on land", "01 natural sciences", "[SDU.ENVI] Sciences of the Universe [physics]/Continental interfaces", " environment", "6. Clean water", "FAO-dualK(c)", "13. Climate action", "Data assimilation", "[SDU.STU.HY] Sciences of the Universe [physics]/Earth Sciences/Hydrology", "Soil moisture", "[SDU.STU.HY]Sciences of the Universe [physics]/Earth Sciences/Hydrology", "[SDU.ENVI]Sciences of the Universe [physics]/Continental interfaces", "environment", "Land surface temperature"]}, "links": [{"href": "https://doi.org/3217588385"}, {"rel": "related", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main/items/Agricultural%20Water%20Management", "name": "related record", "description": "related record", "type": "application/json"}, {"rel": "self", "type": "application/geo+json", "title": "3217588385", "name": "item", "description": "3217588385", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main/items/3217588385"}, {"rel": "collection", "type": "application/json", "title": "Collection", "name": "collection", "description": "Collection", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main"}], "time": {"date": "2022-02-01T00:00:00Z"}}, {"id": "10.3389/fpls.2023.1095790", "type": "Feature", "geometry": null, "properties": {"updated": "2026-09-21T16:19:18Z", "type": "Journal Article", "created": "2023-06-05", "title": "Cultivar-dependent differences in tuber growth cause increased soil resistance in potato fields", "description": "<p>Since soil compaction of potato fields delays shoot emergence and decreases total yield, the causes and effects of this compaction need to be better understood. In a controlled environment trial with young (before tuber initiation) plants, roots of cv. Inca Bella (a phureja group cultivar) were more sensitive to increased soil resistance (3.0 MPa) than cv. Maris Piper (a tuberosum group cultivar). Such variation was hypothesized to cause yield differences in two field trials, in which compaction treatments were applied after tuber planting. Trial 1 increased initial soil resistance from 0.15 MPa to 0.3 MPa. By the end of the growing season, soil resistance increased three-fold in the upper 20\uffc2\uffa0cm of the soil, but resistance in Maris Piper plots was up to twice that of Inca Bella plots. Maris Piper yield was 60% higher than Inca Bella and independent of soil compaction treatment, whilst compacted soil reduced Inca Bella yield by 30%. Trial 2 increased initial soil resistance from 0.2 MPa to 1.0 MPa. Soil resistance in the compacted treatments increased to similar, cultivar-dependent resistances as trial 1. Maris Piper yield was 12% higher than Inca Bella, but cultivar variation in yield response to compacted soil did not occur. Soil water content, root growth and tuber growth were measured to determine whether these factors could explain cultivar differences in soil resistance. Soil water content was similar between cultivars, thus did not cause soil resistance to vary between cultivars. Root density was insufficient to cause observed increases soil resistance. Finally, differences in soil resistance between cultivars became significant during tuber initiation, and became more pronounced until harvest. Increased tuber biomass volume (yield) of Maris Piper increased estimated mean soil density (and thus soil resistance) more than Inca Bella. This increase seems to depend on initial compaction, as soil resistance did not significantly increase in uncompacted soil. While increased soil resistance caused cultivar-dependent restriction of root density of young plants that was consistent with cultivar variation in yield, tuber growth likely caused cultivar-dependent increases in soil resistance in field trials, which may have further limited Inca Bella yield.</p", "keywords": ["2. Zero hunger", "soil compaction", "570", "leaf area", "root growth", "Plant culture", "Plant Science", "15. Life on land", "soil moisture", "630", "tuber yield", "SB1-1110"], "contacts": [{"organization": "Skilleter, Patrick, Nelson, David, Dodd, Ian C.,", "roles": ["creator"]}]}, "links": [{"href": "https://doi.org/10.3389/fpls.2023.1095790"}, {"rel": "related", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main/items/Frontiers%20in%20Plant%20Science", "name": "related record", "description": "related record", "type": "application/json"}, {"rel": "self", "type": "application/geo+json", "title": "10.3389/fpls.2023.1095790", "name": "item", "description": "10.3389/fpls.2023.1095790", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main/items/10.3389/fpls.2023.1095790"}, {"rel": "collection", "type": "application/json", "title": "Collection", "name": "collection", "description": "Collection", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main"}], "time": {"date": "2023-06-05T00:00:00Z"}}, {"id": "10.3389/frwa.2022.981745", "type": "Feature", "geometry": null, "properties": {"updated": "2026-09-21T16:19:18Z", "type": "Journal Article", "created": "2022-09-16", "title": "Perspective on satellite-based land data assimilation to estimate water cycle components in an era of advanced data availability and model sophistication", "description": "<p>The beginning of the 21st century is marked by a rapid growth of land surface satellite data and model sophistication. This offers new opportunities to estimate multiple components of the water cycle via satellite-based land data assimilation (DA) across multiple scales. By resolving more processes in land surface models and by coupling the land, the atmosphere, and other Earth system compartments, the observed information can be propagated to constrain additional unobserved variables. Furthermore, access to more satellite observations enables the direct constraint of more and more components of the water cycle that are of interest to end users. However, the finer level of detail in models and data is also often accompanied by an increase in dimensions, with more state variables, parameters, or boundary conditions to estimate, and more observations to assimilate. This requires advanced DA methods and efficient solutions. One solution is to target specific observations for assimilation based on a sensitivity study or coupling strength analysis, because not all observations are equally effective in improving subsequent forecasts of hydrological variables, weather, agricultural production, or hazards through DA. This paper offers a perspective on current and future land DA development, and suggestions to optimally exploit advances in observing and modeling systems.</p", "keywords": ["[SDE] Environmental Sciences", "Land surface modeling", "VEGETATION OPTICAL DEPTH", "IMPACT", "info:eu-repo/classification/ddc/333.7", "snow", "Environmental technology. Sanitary engineering", "01 natural sciences", "land surface modeling", "RETRIEVALS", "targeted observations", "vegetation", "Snow", "Targeted observations", "SNOW DEPTH", "SOIL-MOISTURE ASSIMILATION", "data assimilation", "TD1-1066", "0105 earth and related environmental sciences", "GRACE DATA ASSIMILATION", "EQUIVALENT", "microwave remote sensing", "Vegetation", "LDAS-MONDE", "BRIGHTNESS TEMPERATURE OBSERVATIONS", "15. Life on land", "Microwave remote sensing", "13. Climate action", "Earth and Environmental Sciences", "SIMULATION", "Data assimilation", "data assimilation", " soil moisture", " snow", " vegetation", " microwave remote sensing", " land surface modeling", " targeted observation", "Soil moisture", "soil moisture"]}, "links": [{"href": "https://cris.unibo.it/bitstream/11585/894502/2/frwa-04-981745%20%282%29.pdf"}, {"href": "https://doi.org/10.3389/frwa.2022.981745"}, {"rel": "related", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main/items/Frontiers%20in%20Water", "name": "related record", "description": "related record", "type": "application/json"}, {"rel": "self", "type": "application/geo+json", "title": "10.3389/frwa.2022.981745", "name": "item", "description": "10.3389/frwa.2022.981745", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main/items/10.3389/frwa.2022.981745"}, {"rel": "collection", "type": "application/json", "title": "Collection", "name": "collection", "description": "Collection", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main"}], "time": {"date": "2022-09-16T00:00:00Z"}}, {"id": "10.3390/s21217406", "type": "Feature", "geometry": null, "properties": {"updated": "2026-09-21T16:19:31Z", "type": "Journal Article", "created": "2021-11-09", "title": "A Calibration/Disaggregation Coupling Scheme for Retrieving Soil Moisture at High Spatio-Temporal Resolution: Synergy between SMAP Passive Microwave, MODIS/Landsat Optical/Thermal and Sentinel-1 Radar Data", "description": "<p>Soil moisture (SM) data are required at high spatio-temporal resolution\uffe2\uff80\uff94typically the crop field scale every 3\uffe2\uff80\uff936 days\uffe2\uff80\uff94for agricultural and hydrological purposes. To provide such high-resolution SM data, many remote sensing methods have been developed from passive microwave, active microwave and thermal data. Despite the pros and cons of each technique in terms of spatio-temporal resolution and their sensitivity to perturbing factors such as vegetation cover, soil roughness and meteorological conditions, there is currently no synergistic approach that takes advantage of all relevant (passive, active microwave and thermal) remote sensing data. In this context, the objective of the paper is to develop a new algorithm that combines SMAP L-band passive microwave, MODIS/Landsat optical/thermal and Sentinel-1 C-band radar data to provide SM data at the field scale at the observation frequency of Sentinel-1. In practice, it is a three-step procedure in which: (1) the 36 km resolution SMAP SM data are disaggregated at 100 m resolution using MODIS/Landsat optical/thermal data on clear sky days, (2) the 100 m resolution disaggregated SM data set is used to calibrate a radar-based SM retrieval model and (3) the so-calibrated radar model is run at field scale on each Sentinel-1 overpass. The calibration approach also uses a vegetation descriptor as ancillary data that is derived either from optical (Sentinel-2) or radar (Sentinel-1) data. Two radar models (an empirical linear regression model and a non-linear semi-empirical formulation derived from the water cloud model) are tested using three vegetation descriptors (NDVI, polarization ratio (PR) and radar coherence (CO)) separately. Both models are applied over three experimental irrigated and rainfed wheat crop sites in central Morocco. The field-scale temporal correlation between predicted and in situ SM is in the range of 0.66\uffe2\uff80\uff930.81 depending on the retrieval configuration. Based on this data set, the linear radar model using PR as a vegetation descriptor offers a relatively good compromise between precision and robustness all throughout the agricultural season with only three parameters to set. The proposed synergistical approach combining multi-resolution/multi-sensor SM-relevant data offers the advantage of not requiring in situ measurements for calibration.</p>", "keywords": ["550", "Chemical technology", "0211 other engineering and technologies", "synergy", "SMAP", "TP1-1185", "04 agricultural and veterinary sciences", "02 engineering and technology", "15. Life on land", "630", "[SDU.ENVI] Sciences of the Universe [physics]/Continental interfaces", " environment", "Article", "DISPATCH", "disaggregation", "[SDU.STU.HY] Sciences of the Universe [physics]/Earth Sciences/Hydrology", "Sentinel-1", "0401 agriculture", " forestry", " and fisheries", "[SDU.STU.HY]Sciences of the Universe [physics]/Earth Sciences/Hydrology", "[SDU.ENVI]Sciences of the Universe [physics]/Continental interfaces", "soil moisture", "environment", "Landsat"]}, "links": [{"href": "http://www.mdpi.com/1424-8220/21/21/7406/pdf"}, {"href": "https://www.mdpi.com/1424-8220/21/21/7406/pdf"}, {"href": "https://doi.org/10.3390/s21217406"}, {"rel": "related", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main/items/Sensors", "name": "related record", "description": "related record", "type": "application/json"}, {"rel": "self", "type": "application/geo+json", "title": "10.3390/s21217406", "name": "item", "description": "10.3390/s21217406", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main/items/10.3390/s21217406"}, {"rel": "collection", "type": "application/json", "title": "Collection", "name": "collection", "description": "Collection", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main"}], "time": {"date": "2021-11-08T00:00:00Z"}}, {"id": "10.3390/agronomy11122480", "type": "Feature", "geometry": null, "properties": {"updated": "2026-09-21T16:19:20Z", "type": "Journal Article", "created": "2021-12-07", "title": "Performance evaluation of the WOFOST model for estimating evapotranspiration, soil water content, grain yield and total above-ground biomass of winter wheat in Tensift Al Haouz (Morocco): Application to yield gap estimation", "description": "<p>The main goal of this investigation was to evaluate the potential of the WOFOST model for estimating leaf area index (LAI), actual evapotranspiration (ETa), soil moisture content (SM), above-ground biomass levels (TAGP) and grain yield (TWSO) of winter wheat in the semi-arid region of Tensift Al Haouz, Marrakech (central Morocco). An application for the estimation of the Yield Gap is also provided. The model was firstly calibrated based on three fields data during the 2002\uffe2\uff80\uff932003 and 2003\uffe2\uff80\uff932004 growing seasons, by using the WOFOST implementation in the Python Crop simulation Environment (PCSE) to optimize the different parameters that provide the minimum difference between the measured and simulated LAI, TAGP, TWSO, SM and ETa. Then, the model validation was performed based on the data from five other wheat fields. The results obtained showed a good performance of the WOFOST model for the estimation of LAI during both growing seasons on all validation fields. The average R2, RSME and NRMSE were 91.4%, 0.57 m2/m2, and 41.4%, respectively. The simulated ETa dynamics also showed a good agreement with the observations by eddy covariance systems. Values of 60% and 72% for R2, 0.8 mm and 0.7 mm for RMSE, 54% and 31% for NRMSE are found for the two validation fields, respectively. The model\uffe2\uff80\uff99s ability to predict soil moisture content was also found to be satisfactory; the two validation fields gave R2 values equal to 48% and 49%, RMSE values equal to 0.03 cm3/cm3 and 0.05 cm3/cm3, NRMSE values equal to 11% and 19%. The calibrated model had a medium performance with respect to the simulation of TWSO (R2 = 42%, RSME = 512 kg/ha, NRMSE = 19%) and TAGP (R2 = 34% and RSME = 936 kg/ha, NRMSE = 16%). After accurate calibration and validation of the WOFOST model, it was used for analyzing the gap yield since this model is able to estimate the potential yield. The WOFOST model allowed a good simulation of the potential yield (7.75 t/ha) which is close to the optimum value of 6.270 t/ha in the region. Yield gap analysis reveals a difference of 5.35 t/ha on average between the observed yields and the potential yields calculated by WOFOST. Such difference is ascribable to many factors such as the crop cycle management, agricultural practices such as water and fertilization supply levels, etc. The various simulations (irrigation scenarios) showed that early sowing is more adequate than late sowing in saving water and obtaining adequate grain yield. Based on various simulations, it has been shown that the early sowing (mid to late December) is more adequate than late sowing with a total amount of water supply of about 430 mm and 322 kg (140 kg of N, 80 kg of P and 102 kg of K) of fertilization to achieve the potential yield. Consequently, the WOFOST model can be considered as a suitable tool for quantitative monitoring of winter wheat growth in the arid and semi-arid regions.</p>", "keywords": ["[SDE] Environmental Sciences", "2. Zero hunger", "estimation", "550", "leaf area index", "S", "gap yield", "evapotranspiration", "Agriculture", "04 agricultural and veterinary sciences", "crop yield", "total biomass", "15. Life on land", "WOFOST", "630", "Tensift Morocco", "winter wheat", "crop modelling; WOFOST; Tensift Morocco; evapotranspiration; crop yield estimation; soil moisture; leaf area index; total biomass; winter wheat; gap yield", "[SDE]Environmental Sciences", "0401 agriculture", " forestry", " and fisheries", "soil moisture", "crop modelling", "crop yield estimation"]}, "links": [{"href": "http://www.mdpi.com/2073-4395/11/12/2480/pdf"}, {"href": "https://www.mdpi.com/2073-4395/11/12/2480/pdf"}, {"href": "https://doi.org/10.3390/agronomy11122480"}, {"rel": "related", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main/items/Agronomy", "name": "related record", "description": "related record", "type": "application/json"}, {"rel": "self", "type": "application/geo+json", "title": "10.3390/agronomy11122480", "name": "item", "description": "10.3390/agronomy11122480", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main/items/10.3390/agronomy11122480"}, {"rel": "collection", "type": "application/json", "title": "Collection", "name": "collection", "description": "Collection", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main"}], "time": {"date": "2021-12-07T00:00:00Z"}}, {"id": "10.3390/d4030334", "type": "Feature", "geometry": null, "properties": {"updated": "2026-09-21T16:19:22Z", "type": "Journal Article", "created": "2012-09-20", "description": "<p>We compared forest floor depth, soil organic matter, soil moisture, anaerobic mineralizable nitrogen (a measure of microbial biomass), denitrification potential, and soil/litter arthropod communities among old growth, unthinned mature stands, and thinned mature stands at nine sites (each with all three stand types) distributed among three regions of Oregon. Mineral soil measurements were restricted to the top 10 cm. Data were analyzed with both multivariate and univariate analyses of variance. Multivariate analyses were conducted with and without soil mesofauna or forest floor mesofauna, as data for those taxa were not collected on some sites. In multivariate analysis with soil mesofauna, the model giving the strongest separation among stand types (P = 0.019) included abundance and richness of soil mesofauna and anaerobic mineralizable nitrogen. The best model with forest floor mesofauna (P = 0.010) included anaerobic mineralizable nitrogen, soil moisture content, and richness of forest floor mesofauna. Old growth had the highest mean values for all variables, and in both models differed significantly from mature stands, while the latter did not differ. Old growth also averaged higher percent soil organic matter, and analysis including that variable was significant but not as strong as without it. Results of the multivariate analyses were mostly supported by univariate analyses, but there were some differences. In univariate analysis, the difference in percent soil organic matter between old growth and thinned mature was due to a single site in which the old growth had exceptionally high soil organic matter; without that site, percent soil organic matter did not differ between old growth and thinned mature, and a multivariate model containing soil organic matter was not statistically significant. In univariate analyses soil mesofauna had to be compared nonparametrically (because of heavy left-tails) and differed only in the Siskiyou Mountains, where they were most abundant and species rich in old growth forests. Species richness of mineral soil mesofauna correlated significantly (+) with percent soil organic matter and soil moisture, while richness of forest floor mesofauna correlated (+) with depth of the forest floor. Composition of forest floor and soil mesofauna suggest the two groups represent a single community. Soil moisture correlated highly with percent soil organic matter, with no evidence for drying in sites that were sampled relatively late in the summer drought, suggesting losses of surface soil moisture were at least partially replaced by hydraulic lift (which has been demonstrated in other forests of the region).</p>", "keywords": ["soil arthropods", "disturbance", "0106 biological sciences", "soil organic matter; soil nitrogen; soil moisture; soil arthropods; thinning; disturbance; forest management", "QH301-705.5", "soil organic matter", "soil nitrogen", "thinning", "forest management", "soil moisture", "Biology (General)", "15. Life on land", "01 natural sciences"], "contacts": [{"organization": "Robert P. Griffiths, Andrew R. Moldenke, David A. Perry, Stephanie L. Madson,", "roles": ["creator"]}]}, "links": [{"href": "http://www.mdpi.com/1424-2818/4/3/334/pdf"}, {"href": "https://doi.org/10.3390/d4030334"}, {"rel": "related", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main/items/Diversity", "name": "related record", "description": "related record", "type": "application/json"}, {"rel": "self", "type": "application/geo+json", "title": "10.3390/d4030334", "name": "item", "description": "10.3390/d4030334", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main/items/10.3390/d4030334"}, {"rel": "collection", "type": "application/json", "title": "Collection", "name": "collection", "description": "Collection", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main"}], "time": {"date": "2012-09-20T00:00:00Z"}}, {"id": "10.3390/en13092355", "type": "Feature", "geometry": null, "properties": {"updated": "2026-09-21T16:19:22Z", "type": "Journal Article", "created": "2020-05-08", "title": "Storage of Fine Woodchips from a Medium Rotation Coppice Eucalyptus Plantation in Central Italy", "description": "<p>Eucalyptus spp. has received attention from the research and industrial field as a biomass crop because of its fast growth and high productivity. The features of this species match with the increasing demand for wood for energy production. Commonly, the wood used for energy production is converted in chips, a material susceptible to microbial degradation and energy losses if not properly stored before conversion. This study aims at investigating two outdoor storage systems of Eucalyptus wood chips (covered vs. uncovered), assessing the variation in moisture content, dry matter losses and fuel characteristics. The class size of the material was P16, which was obtained using a commercial chipper appositely searched to conduct the study. The results highlighted how the different storage methods were influenced by the climatic condition: the woody biomass covered showed the best performances in terms of dry matter losses achieving 2.7% losses vs. the 8.5% of the uncovered systems. However, fuel characteristics displayed minor changes that affected the final energy balance (\uffe2\uff88\uff86En = \uffe2\uff88\uff920.2% in covered; \uffe2\uff88\uff86En = \uffe2\uff88\uff926.17% in uncovered). Particle size varied in both methods with respect to the start conditions, but the variation was not enough to determine a class change, which remained P16 even after storage.</p>", "keywords": ["Moisture content", "Eucalyptus", "Technology", "ash content", "T", "eucalyptus; woody biomass; storage of fine wood chips; moisture content; calorific value; ash content; dry matter loss", "Ash content", "02 engineering and technology", "Calorific value", "15. Life on land", "Ash content; Calorific value; Dry matter loss; Eucalyptus; Moisture content; Storage of fine wood chips; Woody biomass", "01 natural sciences", "7. Clean energy", "storage of fine wood chips", "eucalyptus", "Dry matter loss", "0202 electrical engineering", " electronic engineering", " information engineering", "calorific value", "Storage of fine wood chips", "woody biomass", "Woody biomass", "moisture content", "0105 earth and related environmental sciences"]}, "links": [{"href": "http://www.mdpi.com/1996-1073/13/9/2355/pdf"}, {"href": "https://iris.cnr.it/bitstream/20.500.14243/440759/1/Energies-v2_2020.pdf"}, {"href": "https://www.mdpi.com/1996-1073/13/9/2355/pdf"}, {"href": "https://doi.org/10.3390/en13092355"}, {"rel": "related", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main/items/Energies", "name": "related record", "description": "related record", "type": "application/json"}, {"rel": "self", "type": "application/geo+json", "title": "10.3390/en13092355", "name": "item", "description": "10.3390/en13092355", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main/items/10.3390/en13092355"}, {"rel": "collection", "type": "application/json", "title": "Collection", "name": "collection", "description": "Collection", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main"}], "time": {"date": "2020-05-08T00:00:00Z"}}, {"id": "10.3390/en13112915", "type": "Feature", "geometry": null, "properties": {"updated": "2026-09-21T16:19:22Z", "type": "Journal Article", "created": "2020-06-09", "title": "Medium Rotation Eucalyptus Plant: A Comparison of Storage Systems", "description": "<p>Eucalyptus spp. are among the most suitable species for biomass production, even for the firewood derived from medium-rotation coppice (MRC). The general problem of wood is that it cannot be utilized immediately because of the high moisture content, which in the combustion process would reduce remarkably the yield of energy. In this context, outdoor storage of whole stems without branches (WS), outdoor storage of whole stems with branches (WSB), open shed storage of firewood logs in mesh bags (OSF), and outdoor firewood logs in mesh bags (ODF) of Eucalyptus spp woody biomass were compared in term of moisture and dry matter loss to evaluate the most convenient form of storing biomass deriving from a medium-rotation coppice. During the storage period, ODF showed higher moisture values than OSF, WSB, and WS, underlining that moisture reduction is related to local climatic conditions, pile size and permeability (compaction). However, at the end of the storage period, the four options reached a similar moisture to the commercial one of fuel wood (around 15%). WSB showed the highest loss of dry matter (18%), which can be ascribed to the drying and falling process of the leaves. In conclusion, the qualitative and quantitative characteristics of the biomass were similar after the different storage systems, producing firewood suitable for new market opportunities.</p>", "keywords": ["Eucalyptus", "Technology", "firewood logs", "T", "0211 other engineering and technologies", "02 engineering and technology", "15. Life on land", "7. Clean energy", "Eucalyptus; tree whole stem; firewood logs; storage system; moisture content; dry matter loss", "tree whole stem", "<i>Eucalyptus</i>", "Dry matter loss; Eucalyptus; Firewood logs; Moisture content; Storage System; Tree whole stem", "0202 electrical engineering", " electronic engineering", " information engineering", "storage system", "dry matter loss", "moisture content"]}, "links": [{"href": "http://www.mdpi.com/1996-1073/13/11/2915/pdf"}, {"href": "https://iris.cnr.it/bitstream/20.500.14243/440761/2/Energies-2020.pdf"}, {"href": "https://www.mdpi.com/1996-1073/13/11/2915/pdf"}, {"href": "https://doi.org/10.3390/en13112915"}, {"rel": "related", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main/items/Energies", "name": "related record", "description": "related record", "type": "application/json"}, {"rel": "self", "type": "application/geo+json", "title": "10.3390/en13112915", "name": "item", "description": "10.3390/en13112915", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main/items/10.3390/en13112915"}, {"rel": "collection", "type": "application/json", "title": "Collection", "name": "collection", "description": "Collection", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main"}], "time": {"date": "2020-06-06T00:00:00Z"}}, {"id": "10.3390/land13111759", "type": "Feature", "geometry": null, "properties": {"updated": "2026-09-21T16:19:26Z", "type": "Journal Article", "created": "2024-10-28", "title": "Temperate Soils Exposed to Drought\u2014Key Processes, Impacts, Indicators, and Unknowns", "description": "<?xml version='1.0' encoding='UTF-8'?><article><p>The summer drought in the United Kingdom (UK) in 2022 produced significant speculation concerning how its termination may impact and interact with the soil resource. Whilst knowledge regarding soils and droughts exists in the scientific literature, a coherent understanding of the wider range of impacts on soil properties and functions has not been compiled for temperate soils. Here, we draw together knowledge from studies in the UK and other temperate countries to understand how soils respond to drought, and importantly what and where our knowledge gaps are. First, we define the different types of droughts and their frequency in the UK and provide a brief overview on the likely societal impacts that droughts place on the soil and related ecosystems. Our focus is on \u2018agricultural and ecosystem drought\u2019, as this is when soils experience dry periods affecting crops and ecosystem function, followed by rewetting. The behaviour of moisture in soils and the key processes that contribute to its storage and transport are examined. The principal changes in the physical, chemical, and biological properties of soils resulting from drought, and rewetting (i.e., drought termination) are discussed and their extensive interactions are demonstrated. Processes that are involved in the rewetting of soils are explored for soil and catchment-scale soil responses. Lastly, soils\u2019 recovery after drought is considered, knowledge gaps are identified, and areas to improve understanding are highlighted.</p></article>", "keywords": ["soil health", "rewetting", "soil microbes", "S", "soil water infiltration", "soil water repellency", "drought recovery", "soil nutrients", "Agriculture", "drought termination", "meteorological drought", "soil moisture", "soil fauna"]}, "links": [{"href": "https://www.mdpi.com/2073-445X/13/11/1759/pdf"}, {"href": "https://doi.org/10.3390/land13111759"}, {"rel": "related", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main/items/Land", "name": "related record", "description": "related record", "type": "application/json"}, {"rel": "self", "type": "application/geo+json", "title": "10.3390/land13111759", "name": "item", "description": "10.3390/land13111759", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main/items/10.3390/land13111759"}, {"rel": "collection", "type": "application/json", "title": "Collection", "name": "collection", "description": "Collection", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main"}], "time": {"date": "2024-10-26T00:00:00Z"}}, {"id": "10.3390/geomatics1040024", "type": "Feature", "geometry": null, "properties": {"updated": "2026-09-21T16:19:24Z", "type": "Journal Article", "created": "2021-10-29", "title": "Precipitation Data Retrieval and Quality Assurance from Different Data Sources for the Namoi Catchment in Australia", "description": "<p>Within the Horizon 2020 Project WaterSENSE a modular approach was developed to provide different stakeholders with the required precipitation information. An operational high-quality rainfall grid was set up for the Namoi catchment in Australia based on rain gauge adjusted radar data. Data availability and processing considerations make it necessary to explore alternative precipitation approaches. The gauge adjusted radar data will serve as a benchmark for the alternative precipitation data. The two well established satellite-based precipitation datasets IMERG and GSMaP will be analyzed with the temporal and spatial requirements of the applications envisioned in WaterSENSE in mind. While first results appear promising, these datasets will need further refinements to meet the criteria of WaterSENSE, especially with respect to the spatial resolution. Inferring information from soil moisture-derived from EO observations to increase the spatial detail of the existing satellite-based datasets is a promising approach that will be investigated along with other alternatives.</p>", "keywords": ["QE1-996.5", "0207 environmental engineering", "Geology", "02 engineering and technology", "15. Life on land", "01 natural sciences", "precipitation measurement", "6. Clean water", "13. Climate action", "GSMaP", "soil moisture", "IMERG", "radar", "GPM", "0105 earth and related environmental sciences"], "contacts": [{"organization": "Strehz, Alexander, Einfalt, Thomas,", "roles": ["creator"]}]}, "links": [{"href": "https://www.mdpi.com/2673-7418/1/4/24/pdf"}, {"href": "https://doi.org/10.3390/geomatics1040024"}, {"rel": "related", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main/items/Geomatics", "name": "related record", "description": "related record", "type": "application/json"}, {"rel": "self", "type": "application/geo+json", "title": "10.3390/geomatics1040024", "name": "item", "description": "10.3390/geomatics1040024", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main/items/10.3390/geomatics1040024"}, {"rel": "collection", "type": "application/json", "title": "Collection", "name": "collection", "description": "Collection", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main"}], "time": {"date": "2021-10-28T00:00:00Z"}}, {"id": "10.3390/rs12101621", "type": "Feature", "geometry": null, "properties": {"updated": "2026-09-21T16:19:29Z", "type": "Journal Article", "created": "2020-05-20", "title": "Potential for the Detection of Irrigation Events on Maize Plots Using Sentinel-1 Soil Moisture Products", "description": "<p>Although the real timing and flow rates used for crop irrigation are controlled at the scale of individual plots by the irrigator, they are not generally known by the farm upper management. This information is nevertheless essential, not only to compute the water balance of irrigated plots and to schedule irrigation, but also for the management of water resources at regional scales. The aim of the present study was to detect irrigation timing using time series of surface soil moisture (SSM) derived from Sentinel-1 radar observations. The method consisted of assessing the direction of change of surface soil moisture (SSM) between observations and a water balance model, and to use thresholds to be calibrated. The performance of the approach was assessed on the F-score quantifying the accuracy of the irrigation event detections and ranging from 0 (none of the irrigation timing is correct) to 100 (perfect irrigation detection). The study focused on five irrigated and one rainfed plot of maize in South-West France, where the approach was tested using in situ measurements and surface soil moisture (SSM) maps derived from Sentinel-1 radar data. The use of in situ data showed that (1) irrigation timing was detected with a good accuracy (F-score in the range (80\uffe2\uff80\uff9383) for all plots) and (2) the optimal revisit time between two SSM observations was 2\uffe2\uff80\uff934 days. The higher uncertainties of microwave SSM products, especially when the crop is well developed (normalized difference of vegetation index (NDVI) &gt; 0.7), degraded the score (F-score = 69), but various possibilities of improvement were discussed. This paper opens perspectives for the irrigation detection at the plot scale over large areas and thus for the improvement of irrigation water management.</p>", "keywords": ["[SDE] Environmental Sciences", "FAO-56", "2. Zero hunger", "550", "Science", "Q", "sprinkler; corn; France; irrigation timing; FAO-56; surface soil moisture; SAR", "15. Life on land", "surface soil moisture", "630", "6. Clean water", "surface soil", "corn", "moisture", "irrigation timing", "[SDE]Environmental Sciences", "[SDE.ES] Environmental Sciences/Environment and Society", "sprinkler", "France", "[SDE.ES]Environmental Sciences/Environment and Society", "SAR"]}, "links": [{"href": "http://www.mdpi.com/2072-4292/12/10/1621/pdf"}, {"href": "https://www.mdpi.com/2072-4292/12/10/1621/pdf"}, {"href": "https://doi.org/10.3390/rs12101621"}, {"rel": "related", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main/items/Remote%20Sensing", "name": "related record", "description": "related record", "type": "application/json"}, {"rel": "self", "type": "application/geo+json", "title": "10.3390/rs12101621", "name": "item", "description": "10.3390/rs12101621", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main/items/10.3390/rs12101621"}, {"rel": "collection", "type": "application/json", "title": "Collection", "name": "collection", "description": "Collection", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main"}], "time": {"date": "2020-05-19T00:00:00Z"}}, {"id": "10.3390/rs12101671", "type": "Feature", "geometry": null, "properties": {"updated": "2026-09-21T16:19:29Z", "type": "Journal Article", "created": "2020-05-25", "title": "Temporal Calibration of an Evaporation-Based Spatial Disaggregation Method of SMOS Soil Moisture Data", "description": "<p>The resolution of current satellite surface soil moisture (SM) estimates is very low, of tens of kilometers, which proves to be insufficient for various agricultural and hydrological applications. Amongst the existing downscaling approaches of remotely sensed SM, DISPATCH (DISaggregation based on a Physical And Theoretical scale CHange) improves the resolution of SMOS (Soil Moisture and Ocean Salinity) soil moisture data using soil evaporative efficiency (SEE) estimates at high resolution (HR) and a SEE(SM) model implemented at low resolution (LR). Defined as the ratio of actual to potential soil evaporation, SEE can be derived from the remotely sensed land surface temperature (LST) and normalized difference vegetation index (NDVI). The current version of DISPATCH uses a linear SEE(SM) model. This study aims at improving the SEE(SM) model and testing different calibration strategies, to ultimately have more robust and better downscaled SM products. A nonlinear SEE(SM) model is introduced and its influence on the derived HR SM products is studied over a range of conditions. Each model, linear and nonlinear, is calibrated from remote sensing data on a daily and a multi-date basis. The approaches were tested over two mixed dry and irrigated areas in Catalonia, Spain, and over one dry area in Morocco. When using the linear model, better statistical results were generally obtained using a daily calibration (current version of DISPATCH), most notably over one Spanish site. However, the best results were systematically obtained for an annually calibrated nonlinear model, in terms of all metrics considered: correlation coefficient, slope of the linear regression, bias, unbiased root mean square error. In particular, when using the annually calibrated nonlinear SEE (SM) model, the temporal slope of the linear regression between disaggregated and in situ soil moisture increased to 1.16 and 0.75 for one Spanish site and for the Moroccan site (as opposed to 0.44 and 0.58, respectively, when using the linear model with a daily calibration). The temporal correlation coefficient increased to 0.47 and 0.54 over the Spanish sites (as opposed to 0.18 and 0.27, respectively, when using the linear model with a daily calibration). Those contrasted results indicate compensation effects between the model type and the calibration strategy. Taking into account studies that report the strong nonlinear behavior of the SEE with respect to SM, the introduction of the nonlinear SEE(SM) model in DISPATCH, combined with a multi-date calibration, is proven to perform significantly better under various conditions, leading to more robust disaggregated SM products. The SEE modeling based on the nonlinear SM model, with a multi-date calibration, could be integrated into the CATDS\uffe2\uff80\uff94Centre Aval de Traitement des Donn\uffc3\uffa9es SMOS as a future product, as well as into existing evapotranspiration models, which are based on a combination of thermal and microwave data.</p>", "keywords": ["550", "Science", "Evaporation", "0207 environmental engineering", "02 engineering and technology", "551", "01 natural sciences", "evaporation", "Disaggregation", "Downscaling", "14. Life underwater", "[SDU.STU.HY]Sciences of the Universe [physics]/Earth Sciences/Hydrology", "0105 earth and related environmental sciences", "Q", "downscaling", "15. Life on land", "[SDU.ENVI] Sciences of the Universe [physics]/Continental interfaces", " environment", "6. Clean water", "MODIS", "13. Climate action", "disaggregation", "[SDU.STU.HY] Sciences of the Universe [physics]/Earth Sciences/Hydrology", "Soil moisture", "[SDU.ENVI]Sciences of the Universe [physics]/Continental interfaces", "soil moisture", "environment", "SMOS"]}, "links": [{"href": "http://www.mdpi.com/2072-4292/12/10/1671/pdf"}, {"href": "https://www.mdpi.com/2072-4292/12/10/1671/pdf"}, {"href": "https://doi.org/10.3390/rs12101671"}, {"rel": "related", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main/items/Remote%20Sensing", "name": "related record", "description": "related record", "type": "application/json"}, {"rel": "self", "type": "application/geo+json", "title": "10.3390/rs12101671", "name": "item", "description": "10.3390/rs12101671", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main/items/10.3390/rs12101671"}, {"rel": "collection", "type": "application/json", "title": "Collection", "name": "collection", "description": "Collection", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main"}], "time": {"date": "2020-05-23T00:00:00Z"}}, {"id": "10.3390/polym9090415", "type": "Feature", "geometry": null, "properties": {"updated": "2026-09-21T16:19:28Z", "type": "Journal Article", "created": "2017-09-05", "title": "The Effect of Moisture on Cellulose Nanocrystals Intended as a High Gas Barrier Coating on Flexible Packaging Materials", "description": "<p>Cellulose nanocrystals (CNCs) exhibit outstanding gas barrier properties, which supports their use as a biobased and biodegradable barrier coating on flexible food packaging materials. As highly hydrophilic biopolymers, however, CNCs have a strong sensitivity to water that can be detrimental to applications with fresh foods and in moist conditions due to the loss of barrier properties. In this work, the oxygen and water vapor permeability of polyethylene terephthalate (PET) films coated with CNCs obtained from cotton linters were measured at varying levels of relative humidity, both in adsorption and desorption, and from these data, the diffusion and solubility coefficients were estimated. Therefore, the characterization of CNCs was aimed at understanding the fundamentals of the water-CNCs interaction and proposing counteractions. The CNCs\uffe2\uff80\uff99 moisture absorption and desorption isotherms at 25 \uffc2\uffb0C were collected in the range of relative humidity 0\uffe2\uff80\uff9397% using different techniques and analyzed through GAB (Guggenheim-Anderson-de Boer) and Oswin models. The effects of moisture on the water status, following the freezable water index, and on the crystal structure of CNCs were investigated by Differential Scanning Calorimetry and by X-ray Powder Diffraction, respectively. These findings point to the opportunity of coupling CNCs with hydrophobic layers in order to boost their capabilities as barrier packaging materials.</p>", "keywords": ["cellulose nanocrystals; flexible packaging materials; oxygen barrier; moisture effects", "cellulose nanocrystals; flexible packaging materials; moisture effects; oxygen barrier; chemistry (all); polymers and plastics", "02 engineering and technology", "0210 nano-technology", "Article"]}, "links": [{"href": "http://www.mdpi.com/2073-4360/9/9/415/pdf"}, {"href": "https://air.unimi.it/bitstream/2434/557567/2/polymers_09_00415.pdf"}, {"href": "https://doi.org/10.3390/polym9090415"}, {"rel": "related", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main/items/Polymers", "name": "related record", "description": "related record", "type": "application/json"}, {"rel": "self", "type": "application/geo+json", "title": "10.3390/polym9090415", "name": "item", "description": "10.3390/polym9090415", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main/items/10.3390/polym9090415"}, {"rel": "collection", "type": "application/json", "title": "Collection", "name": "collection", "description": "Collection", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main"}], "time": {"date": "2017-09-05T00:00:00Z"}}, {"id": "10.3390/rs10060969", "type": "Feature", "geometry": null, "properties": {"updated": "2026-09-21T16:19:29Z", "type": "Journal Article", "created": "2018-06-18", "title": "Relation between Convective Rainfall Properties and Antecedent Soil Moisture Heterogeneity Conditions in North Africa", "description": "<p>Recent observational studies have demonstrated the relevance of soil moisture heterogeneity and the associated thermally-induced circulation on deep convection and rainfall triggering. However, whether this dynamical mechanism further influences rainfall properties\uffe2\uff80\uff94such as rain volume or timing\uffe2\uff80\uff94has yet to be confirmed by observational data. Here, we analyze 10 years of satellite-based sub-daily soil moisture and precipitation records and explore the potential of strong spatial gradients in morning soil moisture to influence the properties of afternoon rainfall in the North African region, at the 100-km scale. We find that the convective rain systems that form over locally drier soils and anomalously strong soil moisture gradients have a tendency to initiate earlier in the afternoon; they also yield lower volumes of rain, weaker intensity and lower spatial variability. The strongest sensitivity to antecedent soil conditions is identified for the timing of the rain onset; it is found to be correlated with the magnitude of the soil moisture gradient. Further analysis shows that the early initiation of rainfall over dry soils and strong surface gradients yet requires the presence of a very moist boundary layer on that day. Our findings agree well with the expected effects of thermally-induced circulation on rainfall properties suggested by theoretical studies and point to the potential of locally drier and heterogeneous soils to influence convective rainfall development. The systematic nature of the identified effect of soil moisture state on the onset time of rainstorms in the region is of particular relevance and may help foster research on rainfall predictability.</p>", "keywords": ["Science", "0207 environmental engineering", "UNITED-STATES", "EVIDENCE", "soil moisture-precipitation coupling", "02 engineering and technology", "01 natural sciences", "soil moisture-precipitation coupling; soil moisture heterogeneity; convective rainfall initiation; semi-arid Sahel", "Soilmoisture heterogeneity", "convective rainfall initiation", "LARGE-EDDY SIMULATIONS", "Soilmoisture-precipitation coupling", "WEST-AFRICA", "0105 earth and related environmental sciences", "Semi-arid Sahel", "PRECIPITATION FEEDBACK", "Convective rainfall initiation", "Q", "PASSIVE MICROWAVE", "15. Life on land", "LAND-SURFACE", "DIURNAL CYCLES", "semi-arid Sahel", "13. Climate action", "Earth and Environmental Sciences", "AMMA CAMPAIGN", "OBSERVATIONAL", "soil moisture heterogeneity", "BOUNDARY-LAYER INTERACTIONS"]}, "links": [{"href": "http://www.mdpi.com/2072-4292/10/6/969/pdf"}, {"href": "https://doi.org/10.3390/rs10060969"}, {"rel": "related", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main/items/Remote%20Sensing", "name": "related record", "description": "related record", "type": "application/json"}, {"rel": "self", "type": "application/geo+json", "title": "10.3390/rs10060969", "name": "item", "description": "10.3390/rs10060969", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main/items/10.3390/rs10060969"}, {"rel": "collection", "type": "application/json", "title": "Collection", "name": "collection", "description": "Collection", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main"}], "time": {"date": "2018-06-17T00:00:00Z"}}, {"id": "10.3390/rs11161863", "type": "Feature", "geometry": null, "properties": {"updated": "2026-09-21T16:19:29Z", "type": "Journal Article", "created": "2019-08-09", "title": "Stepwise Disaggregation of SMAP Soil Moisture at 100 m Resolution Using Landsat-7/8 Data and a Varying Intermediate Resolution", "description": "<?xml version='1.0' encoding='UTF-8'?><article><p>Global soil moisture (SM) products are currently available from passive microwave sensors at typically 40 km spatial resolution. Although recent efforts have been made to produce 1 km resolution data from the disaggregation of coarse scale observations, the targeted resolution of available SM data is still far from the requirements of fine-scale hydrological and agricultural studies. To fill the gap, a new disaggregation scheme of Soil Moisture Active and Passive (SMAP) data is proposed at 100 m resolution by using the disaggregation based on physical and theoretical scale change (DISPATCH) algorithm. The main objectives of this paper is (i) to implement DISPATCH algorithm at 100 m resolution using SMAP SM and Landsat land surface temperature and vegetation index data and (ii) to investigate the usefulness of an intermediate spatial resolution (ISR) between the SMAP 36 km resolution and the targeted 100 m resolution. The sequential disaggregation approach from 36 km to ISR (ranging from 1 km to 30 km) and from ISR to 100 m resolution is evaluated over 22 irrigated field crops in central Morocco using in-situ SM measurements collected from January to May 2016. The lowest root mean square difference (RMSD) between the 100 m resolution disaggregated and in-situ SM is obtained when the ISR is around 10 km. Therefore, the two-step disaggregation is more efficient than the direct disaggregation from SMAP to 100 m resolution. Moreover, we propose a moving average window algorithm to increase the accuracy in the 100 m resolution SM as well as to reduce the low-resolution boxy artifacts on disaggregated images. The correlation coefficient between 100 m resolution disaggregated and in situ SM ranges between 0.5\u20130.9 for four out of the six extensive sampling dates. This methodology relies solely on remote sensing data and can be easily implemented to monitor SM at a high spatial resolution over irrigated regions.</p></article>", "keywords": ["Intermediate spatial resolution", "550", "[SDV]Life Sciences [q-bio]", "Science", "Q", "0211 other engineering and technologies", "SMAP", "04 agricultural and veterinary sciences", "02 engineering and technology", "15. Life on land", "6. Clean water", "[SDV] Life Sciences [q-bio]", "disaggregation;soil moisture;DISPATCH;Intermediate spatial resolution;SMAP", "DISPATCH", "13. Climate action", "disaggregation", "0401 agriculture", " forestry", " and fisheries", "disaggregation; soil moisture; DISPATCH; Intermediate spatial resolution; SMAP", "soil moisture"]}, "links": [{"href": "http://www.mdpi.com/2072-4292/11/16/1863/pdf"}, {"href": "https://www.mdpi.com/2072-4292/11/16/1863/pdf"}, {"href": "https://doi.org/10.3390/rs11161863"}, {"rel": "related", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main/items/Remote%20Sensing", "name": "related record", "description": "related record", "type": "application/json"}, {"rel": "self", "type": "application/geo+json", "title": "10.3390/rs11161863", "name": "item", "description": "10.3390/rs11161863", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main/items/10.3390/rs11161863"}, {"rel": "collection", "type": "application/json", "title": "Collection", "name": "collection", "description": "Collection", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main"}], "time": {"date": "2019-08-09T00:00:00Z"}}, {"id": "10.3390/rs11222596", "type": "Feature", "geometry": null, "properties": {"updated": "2026-09-21T16:19:29Z", "type": "Journal Article", "created": "2019-11-07", "title": "Deriving Field Scale Soil Moisture from Satellite Observations and Ground Measurements in a Hilly Agricultural Region", "description": "<p>Agricultural and hydrological applications could greatly benefit from soil moisture (SM) information at sub-field resolution and (sub-) daily revisit time. However, current operational satellite missions provide soil moisture information at either lower spatial or temporal resolution. Here, we downscale coarse resolution (25\uffe2\uff80\uff9336 km) satellite SM products with quasi-daily resolution to the field scale (30 m) using the random forest (RF) machine learning algorithm. RF models are trained with remotely sensed SM and ancillary variables on soil texture, topography, and vegetation cover against SM measured in the field. The approach is developed and tested in an agricultural catchment equipped with a high-density network of low-cost SM sensors. Our results show a strong consistency between the downscaled and observed SM spatio-temporal patterns. We found that topography has higher predictive power for downscaling than soil texture, due to the hilly landscape of the study area. Furthermore, including a proxy of vegetation cover results in considerable improvements of the performance. Increasing the training set size leads to significant gain in the model skill and expanding the training set is likely to further enhance the accuracy. When only limited in-situ measurements are available as training data, increasing the number of sensor locations should be favored over expanding the duration of the measurements for improved downscaling performance. In this regard, we show the potential of low-cost sensors as a practical and cost-effective solution for gathering the necessary observations. Overall, our findings highlight the suitability of using ground measurements in conjunction with machine learning to derive high spatially resolved SM maps from coarse-scale satellite products.</p>", "keywords": ["advanced scatterometer (ascat)", "2. Zero hunger", "soil moisture; downscaling; advanced scatterometer (ASCAT); soil moisture active passive (SMAP); random forest; low-cost sensor", "soil moisture active passive (smap)", "Science", "Q", "downscaling", "soil moisture", "15. Life on land", "01 natural sciences", "random forest", "low-cost sensor", "0105 earth and related environmental sciences"]}, "links": [{"href": "http://www.mdpi.com/2072-4292/11/22/2596/pdf"}, {"href": "https://www.mdpi.com/2072-4292/11/22/2596/pdf"}, {"href": "https://doi.org/10.3390/rs11222596"}, {"rel": "related", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main/items/Remote%20Sensing", "name": "related record", "description": "related record", "type": "application/json"}, {"rel": "self", "type": "application/geo+json", "title": "10.3390/rs11222596", "name": "item", "description": "10.3390/rs11222596", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main/items/10.3390/rs11222596"}, {"rel": "collection", "type": "application/json", "title": "Collection", "name": "collection", "description": "Collection", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main"}], "time": {"date": "2019-11-06T00:00:00Z"}}, {"id": "10.3390/rs12010072", "type": "Feature", "geometry": null, "properties": {"updated": "2026-09-21T16:19:29Z", "type": "Journal Article", "created": "2019-12-24", "title": "Evaluation of Backscattering Models and Support Vector Machine for the Retrieval of Bare Soil Moisture from Sentinel-1 Data", "description": "<p>The main objective of this work was to retrieve surface soil moisture (SSM) by using scattering models and a support vector machine (SVM) technique driven by backscattering coefficients obtained from Sentinel-1 satellite images acquired over bare agricultural soil in the Tensfit basin of Morocco. Two backscattering models were selected in this study due to their wide use in inversion procedures: the theoretical integral equation model (IEM) and the semi-empirical model (Oh). To this end, the sensitivity of the SAR backscattering coefficients at     V V     (    \uffcf\uff83  v v  \uffe2\uff88\uff98    ) and     V H     (    \uffcf\uff83  v h  \uffe2\uff88\uff98    ) polarizations to in situ soil moisture data were analyzed first. As expected, the results showed that over bare soil the     \uffcf\uff83  v v  \uffe2\uff88\uff98     was well correlated with SSM compared to the     \uffcf\uff83  v h  \uffe2\uff88\uff98    , which showed more dispersion with correlation coefficients values (r) of about     0.84     and     0.61     for the     V V     and     V H     polarizations, respectively. Afterwards, these values of     \uffcf\uff83  v v  \uffe2\uff88\uff98     were compared to those simulated by the backscatter models. It was found that IEM driven by the measured length correlation L slightly underestimated SAR backscatter coefficients compared to the Oh model with a bias of about     \uffe2\uff88\uff92 0.7     dB and     \uffe2\uff88\uff92 1.2     dB and a root mean square (RMSE) of about     1.1     dB and     1.5     dB for Oh and IEM models, respectively. However, the use of an optimal value of L significantly improved the bias of IEM, which became near to zero, and the RMSE decreased to     0.9     dB. Then, a classical inversion approach of     \uffcf\uff83  v v  \uffe2\uff88\uff98     observations based on backscattering model is compared to a data driven retrieval technic (SVM). By comparing the retrieved soil moisture against ground truth measurements, it was found that results of SVM were very encouraging and were close to those obtained by IEM model. The bias and RMSE were about 0.28 vol.% and 2.77 vol.% and     \uffe2\uff88\uff92 0.13     vol.% and 2.71 vol.% for SVM and IEM, respectively. However, by taking into account the difficultly of obtaining roughness parameter at large scale, it was concluded that SVM is still a useful tool to retrieve soil moisture, and therefore, can be fairly used to generate maps at such scales.</p>", "keywords": ["[SDE] Environmental Sciences", "soil moisture; synthetic aperture radar (SAR); Sentinel-1; semi-empirical and theoretical backscatter models; support vector machine; bare soil", "550", "Science", "sentinel-1", "Q", "0211 other engineering and technologies", "0207 environmental engineering", "support vector", "02 engineering and technology", "synthetic aperture radar (SAR)", "15. Life on land", "543", "bare soil", "[SDE]Environmental Sciences", "Sentinel-1", "support vector machine", "soil moisture", "synthetic aperture radar (sar)", "semi-empirical and theoretical backscatter models", "machine"]}, "links": [{"href": "http://www.mdpi.com/2072-4292/12/1/72/pdf"}, {"href": "https://www.mdpi.com/2072-4292/12/1/72/pdf"}, {"href": "https://doi.org/10.3390/rs12010072"}, {"rel": "related", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main/items/Remote%20Sensing", "name": "related record", "description": "related record", "type": "application/json"}, {"rel": "self", "type": "application/geo+json", "title": "10.3390/rs12010072", "name": "item", "description": "10.3390/rs12010072", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main/items/10.3390/rs12010072"}, {"rel": "collection", "type": "application/json", "title": "Collection", "name": "collection", "description": "Collection", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main"}], "time": {"date": "2019-12-24T00:00:00Z"}}, {"id": "10.3390/rs13173355", "type": "Feature", "geometry": null, "properties": {"updated": "2026-09-21T16:19:30Z", "type": "Journal Article", "created": "2021-08-25", "title": "Reviewing the Potential of Sentinel-2 in Assessing the Drought", "description": "<?xml version='1.0' encoding='UTF-8'?><article><p>This paper systematically reviews the potential of the Sentinel-2 (A and B) in assessing drought. Research findings, including the IPCC reports, highlighted the increasing trend in drought over the decades and the need for a better understanding and assessment of this phenomenon. Continuous monitoring of the Earth\u2019s surface is an efficient method for predicting and identifying the early warnings of drought, which enables us to prepare and plan the mitigation procedures. Considering the spatial, temporal, and spectral characteristics, the freely available Sentinel-2 data products are a promising option in this area of research, compared to Landsat and MODIS. This paper evaluates the recent developments in this field induced by the launch of Sentinel-2, as well as the comparison with other existing data products. The objective of this paper is to evaluate the potential of Sentinel-2 in assessing drought through vegetation characteristics, soil moisture, evapotranspiration, surface water including wetland, and land use and land cover analysis. Furthermore, this review also addresses and compares various data fusion methods and downscaling methods applied to Sentinel-2 for retrieving the major bio-geophysical variables used in the analysis of drought. Additionally, the limitations of Sentinel-2 in its direct applicability to drought studies are also evaluated.</p></article>", "keywords": ["land use and land cover analysis", "vegetation response", "Sentinel-2; drought; soil moisture; evapotranspiration; vegetation response; surface water and wetland analysis; land use and land cover analysis", "Science", "Q", "evapotranspiration", "0207 environmental engineering", "drought", "02 engineering and technology", "15. Life on land", "01 natural sciences", "6. Clean water", "surface water and wetland analysis", "13. Climate action", "Sentinel-2; drought", "Sentinel-2", "soil moisture", "0105 earth and related environmental sciences"]}, "links": [{"href": "https://www.mdpi.com/2072-4292/13/17/3355/pdf"}, {"href": "https://doi.org/10.3390/rs13173355"}, {"rel": "related", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main/items/Remote%20Sensing", "name": "related record", "description": "related record", "type": "application/json"}, {"rel": "self", "type": "application/geo+json", "title": "10.3390/rs13173355", "name": "item", "description": "10.3390/rs13173355", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main/items/10.3390/rs13173355"}, {"rel": "collection", "type": "application/json", "title": "Collection", "name": "collection", "description": "Collection", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main"}], "time": {"date": "2021-08-24T00:00:00Z"}}, {"id": "10.3390/rs13234893", "type": "Feature", "geometry": null, "properties": {"license": "Open Access", "updated": "2026-09-21T16:19:30Z", "type": "Journal Article", "created": "2021-12-06", "title": "In Situ Observation-Constrained Global Surface Soil Moisture Using Random Forest Model", "description": "<?xml version='1.0' encoding='UTF-8'?><article><p>The inherent biases of different long-term gridded surface soil moisture (SSM) products, unconstrained by the in situ observations, implies different spatio-temporal patterns. In this study, the Random Forest (RF) model was trained to predict SSM from relevant land surface feature variables (i.e., land surface temperature, vegetation indices, soil texture, and geographical information) and precipitation, based on the in situ soil moisture data of the International Soil Moisture Network (ISMN.). The results of the RF model show an RMSE of 0.05 m3 m\u22123 and a correlation coefficient of 0.9. The calculated impurity-based feature importance indicates that the Antecedent Precipitation Index affects most of the predicted soil moisture. The geographical coordinates also significantly influence the prediction (i.e., RMSE was reduced to 0.03 m3 m\u22123 after considering geographical coordinates), followed by land surface temperature, vegetation indices, and soil texture. The spatio-temporal pattern of RF predicted SSM was compared with the European Space Agency Climate Change Initiative (ESA-CCI) soil moisture product, using both time-longitude and latitude diagrams. The results indicate that the RF SSM captures the spatial distribution and the daily, seasonal, and annual variabilities globally.</p></article>", "keywords": ["feature importance", "Science", "0207 environmental engineering", "02 engineering and technology", "01 natural sciences", "antecedent precipitation index", "SDG 13 - Climate Action", "Global scale", "Antecedent precipitation index; Feature importance; Global scale; In situ constrained; Random forest; Soil moisture", "soil moisture; random forest; global scale; in situ constrained; feature importance; antecedent precipitation index", "SDG 15 - Life on Land", "0105 earth and related environmental sciences", "Antecedent precipitation index", "Q", "In situ constrained", "15. Life on land", "Feature importance", "13. Climate action", "ITC-ISI-JOURNAL-ARTICLE", "global scale", "Soil moisture", "soil moisture", "ITC-GOLD", "in situ constrained", "random forest", "Random forest"]}, "links": [{"href": "http://www.mdpi.com/2072-4292/13/23/4893/pdf"}, {"href": "https://www.iris.unina.it/bitstream/11588/938135/1/2021_Ljie_Zeng_et_al_remotesensing.pdf"}, {"href": "https://www.mdpi.com/2072-4292/13/23/4893/pdf"}, {"href": "https://doi.org/10.3390/rs13234893"}, {"rel": "related", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main/items/Remote%20Sensing", "name": "related record", "description": "related record", "type": "application/json"}, {"rel": "self", "type": "application/geo+json", "title": "10.3390/rs13234893", "name": "item", "description": "10.3390/rs13234893", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main/items/10.3390/rs13234893"}, {"rel": "collection", "type": "application/json", "title": "Collection", "name": "collection", "description": "Collection", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main"}], "time": {"date": "2021-12-02T00:00:00Z"}}, {"id": "10.3390/rs13245115", "type": "Feature", "geometry": null, "properties": {"updated": "2026-09-21T16:19:30Z", "type": "Journal Article", "created": "2021-12-16", "title": "Using Sentinel-2 Images for Soil Organic Carbon Content Mapping in Croplands of Southwestern France. The Usefulness of Sentinel-1/2 Derived Moisture Maps and Mismatches between Sentinel Images and Sampling Dates", "description": "<?xml version='1.0' encoding='UTF-8'?><article><p>In agronomy, soil organic carbon (SOC) content is important for the development and growth of crops. From an environmental monitoring viewpoint, SOC sequestration is essential for mitigating the emission of greenhouse gases into the atmosphere. SOC dynamics in cropland soils should be further studied through various approaches including remote sensing. In order to predict SOC content over croplands in southwestern France (area of 22,177 km\u00b2), this study addresses (i) the influence of the dates on which Sentinel-2 (S2) images were acquired in the springs of 2017\u20132018 as well as the influence of the soil sampling period of a set of samples collected between 2005 and 2018, (ii) the use of soil moisture products (SMPs) derived from Sentinel-1/2 satellites to analyze the influence of surface soil moisture on model performance when included as a covariate, and (iii) whether the spatial distribution of SOC as mapped using S2 is related to terrain-derived attributes. The influences of S2 image dates and soil sampling periods were analyzed for bare topsoil. The dates of the S2 images with the best performance (RPD \u2265 1.7) were 6 April and 26 May 2017, using soil samples collected between 2016 and 2018. The soil sampling dates were also analyzed using SMP values. Soil moisture values were extracted for each sample and integrated into partial least squares regression (PLSR) models. The use of soil moisture as a covariate had no effect on the prediction performance of the models; however, SMP values were used to select the driest dates, effectively mapping topsoil organic carbon. S2 was able to predict high SOC contents in the specific soil types located on the old terraces (mesas) shaped by rivers flowing from the southwestern Pyr\u00e9n\u00e9es.</p></article>", "keywords": ["2. Zero hunger", "550", "soil organic carbon; sentinel-2; soil moisture; croplands; digital soil mapping; southwestern france; topographic wetness index; slaking crust sensitivity index", "sentinel-2", "Science", "Q", "[SDU.STU]Sciences of the Universe [physics]/Earth Sciences", "15. Life on land", "croplands", "630", "soil organic carbon", "southwestern france", "topographic wetness index", "13. Climate action", "digital soil mapping", "[SDU.STU] Sciences of the Universe [physics]/Earth Sciences", "soil moisture", "slaking crust sensitivity index"]}, "links": [{"href": "http://www.mdpi.com/2072-4292/13/24/5115/pdf"}, {"href": "https://www.mdpi.com/2072-4292/13/24/5115/pdf"}, {"href": "https://doi.org/10.3390/rs13245115"}, {"rel": "related", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main/items/Remote%20Sensing", "name": "related record", "description": "related record", "type": "application/json"}, {"rel": "self", "type": "application/geo+json", "title": "10.3390/rs13245115", "name": "item", "description": "10.3390/rs13245115", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main/items/10.3390/rs13245115"}, {"rel": "collection", "type": "application/json", "title": "Collection", "name": "collection", "description": "Collection", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main"}], "time": {"date": "2021-12-16T00:00:00Z"}}, {"id": "10.3390/rs14010167", "type": "Feature", "geometry": null, "properties": {"updated": "2026-09-21T16:19:30Z", "type": "Journal Article", "created": "2022-01-10", "title": "Disaggregation of SMAP Soil Moisture at 20 m Resolution: Validation and Sub-Field Scale Analysis", "description": "<p>This paper introduces a modified version of the DisPATCh (Disaggregation based on Physical And Theoretical scale Change) algorithm to disaggregate an SMAP surface soil moisture (SSM) product at a 20 m spatial resolution, through the use of sharpened Sentinel-3 land surface temperature (LST) data. Using sharpened LST as a high resolution proxy of SSM is a novel approach that needs to be validated and can be employed in a variety of applications that currently lack in a product with a similar high spatio-temporal resolution. The proposed high resolution SSM product was validated against available in situ data for two different fields, and it was also compared with two coarser DisPATCh products produced, disaggregating SMAP through the use of an LST at 1 km from Sentinel-3 and MODIS. From the correlation between in situ data and disaggregated SSM products, a general improvement was found in terms of Pearson\uffe2\uff80\uff99s correlation coefficient (R) for the proposed high resolution product with respect to the two products at 1 km. For the first field analyzed, R was equal to 0.47 when considering the 20 m product, an improvement compared to the 0.28 and 0.39 for the 1 km products. The improvement was especially noticeable during the summer season, in which it was only possible to successfully capture field-specific irrigation practices at the 20 m resolution. For the second field, R was 0.31 for the 20 m product, also an improvement compared to the 0.21 and 0.23 for the 1 km product. Additionally, the new product was able to depict SSM spatial variability at a sub-field scale and a validation analysis is also proposed at this scale. The main advantage of the proposed product is its very high spatio-temporal resolution, which opens up new opportunities to apply remotely sensed SSM data in disciplines that require fine spatial scales, such as agriculture and water management.</p>", "keywords": ["validation", "550", "[SDE.IE]Environmental Sciences/Environmental Engineering", "Science", "Q", "SMAP", "04 agricultural and veterinary sciences", "surface soil moisture", "333", "6. Clean water", "631", "surface soil moisture; disaggregation; DISPATCH; SMAP; validation", "DISPATCH", "disaggregation", "[SDU.STU.HY] Sciences of the Universe [physics]/Earth Sciences/Hydrology", "0401 agriculture", " forestry", " and fisheries", "[SDE.IE] Environmental Sciences/Environmental Engineering", "[SDU.STU.HY]Sciences of the Universe [physics]/Earth Sciences/Hydrology"]}, "links": [{"href": "http://www.mdpi.com/2072-4292/14/1/167/pdf"}, {"href": "https://www.mdpi.com/2072-4292/14/1/167/pdf"}, {"href": "https://doi.org/10.3390/rs14010167"}, {"rel": "related", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main/items/Remote%20Sensing", "name": "related record", "description": "related record", "type": "application/json"}, {"rel": "self", "type": "application/geo+json", "title": "10.3390/rs14010167", "name": "item", "description": "10.3390/rs14010167", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main/items/10.3390/rs14010167"}, {"rel": "collection", "type": "application/json", "title": "Collection", "name": "collection", "description": "Collection", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main"}], "time": {"date": "2021-12-31T00:00:00Z"}}, {"id": "10.3390/rs9111155", "type": "Feature", "geometry": null, "properties": {"updated": "2026-09-21T16:19:31Z", "type": "Journal Article", "created": "2017-11-10", "title": "Disaggregation of SMOS Soil Moisture to 100 m Resolution Using MODIS Optical/Thermal and Sentinel-1 Radar Data: Evaluation over a Bare Soil Site in Morocco", "description": "<?xml version='1.0' encoding='UTF-8'?><article><p>The 40 km resolution SMOS (Soil Moisture and Ocean Salinity) soil moisture, previously disaggregated at a 1 km resolution using the DISPATCH (DISaggregation based on Physical And Theoretical scale CHange) method based on MODIS optical/thermal data, is further disaggregated to 100 m resolution using Sentinel-1 backscattering coefficient (\u03c3\u00b0). For this purpose, three distinct radar-based disaggregation methods are tested by linking the spatio-temporal variability of \u03c3\u00b0 and soil moisture data at the 1 km and 100 m resolution. The three methods are: (1) the weight method, which estimates soil moisture at 100 m resolution at a certain time as a function of \u03c3\u00b0 ratio (100 m to 1 km resolution) and the 1 km DISPATCH products of the same time; (2) the regression method which estimates soil moisture as a function of \u03c3\u00b0 where the regression parameters (e.g., intercept and slope) vary in space and time; and (3) the Cumulative Distribution Function (CDF) method, which estimates 100 m resolution soil moisture from the cumulative probability of 100 m resolution backscatter and the maximum to minimum 1 km resolution (DISPATCH) soil moisture difference. In each case, disaggregation results are evaluated against in situ measurements collected between 1 January 2016 and 11 October 2016 over a bare soil site in central Morocco. The determination coefficient (R2) between 1 km resolution DISPATCH and localized in situ soil moisture is 0.31. The regression and CDF methods have marginal effect on improving the DISPATCH accuracy at the station scale with a R2 between remotely sensed and in situ soil moisture of 0.29 and 0.34, respectively. By contrast, the weight method significantly improves the correlation between remotely sensed and in situ soil moisture with a R2 of 0.52. Likewise, the soil moisture estimates show low root mean square difference with in situ measurements (RMSD= 0.032 m3 m\u22123).</p></article>", "keywords": ["soil moisture and ocean salinity satellite (SMOS)", "Atmospheric Science", "Artificial intelligence", "Environmental Engineering", "550", "Science", "Soil Moisture", "0211 other engineering and technologies", "Aerospace Engineering", "FOS: Mechanical engineering", "02 engineering and technology", "01 natural sciences", "Environmental science", "[SDU] Sciences of the Universe [physics]", "Engineering", "Meteorology", "DISPATCH", "Image resolution", "Arctic Permafrost Dynamics and Climate Change", "14. 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In this context, Sentinel-1 radar images have made it possible to retrieve surface soil moisture with a high spatial and temporal resolution. This paper presents two methodologies for the retrieval of soil moisture from remotely-sensed SAR images, with a spatial resolution of 100 m. These algorithms are based on the interpretation of Sentinel-1 data recorded in the VV polarization, which is combined with Sentinel-2 optical data for the analysis of vegetation effects over a site in Urgell (Catalunya, Spain). The first algorithm has already been applied to observations in West Africa by Zribi et al., 2008, using low spatial resolution ERS scatterometer data, and is based on change detection approach. In the present study, this approach is applied to Sentinel-1 data and optimizes the inversion process by taking advantage of the high repeat frequency of the Sentinel observations. The second algorithm relies on a new method, based on the difference between backscattered Sentinel-1 radar signals observed on two consecutive days, expressed as a function of NDVI optical index. Both methods are applied to almost 1.5 years of satellite data (July 2015\u2013November 2016), and are validated using field data acquired at a study site. This leads to an RMS error in volumetric moisture of approximately 0.087 m3/m3 and 0.059 m3/m3 for the first and second methods, respectively. No site calibrations are needed with these techniques, and they can be applied to any vegetation-covered area for which time series of SAR data have been recorded.</p></article>", "keywords": ["[SDE] Environmental Sciences", "NDVI", "Chemical technology", "HUMIDITE DU SOL", "soil moisture; SAR; Sentinel-1; NDVI; Sentinel-2; change detection", "0211 other engineering and technologies", "soil water content", "TP1-1185", "02 engineering and technology", "15. 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This work concerns the development of a deep learning model for analyzing and predicting spatial time series, considering both satellite derived and model-based data assimilation processes. To that end, we propose the Embedded Temporal Convolutional Network (E-TCN) architecture, which integrates three different networks, namely an encoder network, a temporal convolutional network, and a decoder network. The model accepts as input satellite or assimilation model derived values, such as land surface temperature and soil moisture, with monthly periodicity, going back more than fifteen years. We use our model and compare its results with the state-of-the-art model for spatiotemporal data, the ConvLSTM model. To quantify performance, we explore different cases of spatial resolution, spatial region extension, number of training examples and prediction windows, among others. The proposed approach achieves better performance in terms of prediction accuracy, while using a smaller number of parameters compared to the ConvLSTM model. Although we focus on two specific environmental variables, the method can be readily applied to other variables of interest.</p>", "keywords": ["deep learning; time-series forecasting; remote sensing; climate variables; surface temperature; soil moisture", "Chemical technology", "Temperature", "0211 other engineering and technologies", "deep learning", "climate variables", "TP1-1185", "02 engineering and technology", "surface temperature", "time-series forecasting", "Article", "remote sensing", "Soil", "13. 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