{"type": "FeatureCollection", "features": [{"id": "10.1002/ajb2.1625", "type": "Feature", "geometry": null, "properties": {"license": "Open Access", "updated": "2026-05-30T16:14:26Z", "type": "Journal Article", "created": "2021-03-19", "title": "Phylogeography of a gypsum endemic plant across its entire distribution range in the western Mediterranean", "description": "PREMISE<p>Gypsum soils in the Mediterranean Basin house large numbers of edaphic specialists that are adapted to stressful environments. The evolutionary history and standing genetic variation of these taxa have been influenced by the geological and paleoclimatic complexity of this area and the long\uffe2\uff80\uff90standing effect of human activities. However, little is known about the origin of Mediterranean gypsophiles and the factors affecting their genetic diversity and population structure.</p>METHODS<p>Using phylogenetic and phylogeographic approaches based on microsatellites and sequence data from nuclear and chloroplast regions, we evaluated the divergence time, genetic diversity, and population structure of 27 different populations of the widespread Iberian gypsophile Lepidium subulatum throughout its entire geographic range.</p>RESULTS<p>Lepidium subulatum diverged from its nearest relatives ~3 million years ago, and ITS and psbA/matK trees supported the monophyly of the species. These results suggest that both geological and climatic changes in the region around the Plio\uffe2\uff80\uff90Pleistocene promoted its origin, compared to other evolutionary processes. We found high genetic diversity in both nuclear and chloroplast markers, but a greater population structure in the chloroplast data. These results suggest that while seed dispersal is limited, pollen flow may be favored by the presence of numerous habitat patches that enhance the movement of pollinators.</p>CONCLUSIONS<p>Despite being an edaphic endemic, L. subulatum possesses high genetic diversity probably related to its relatively old age and high population sizes across its range. Our study highlights the value of using different markers to fully understand the phylogeographic history of plant species.</p", "keywords": ["0301 basic medicine", "Phylogeography", "0303 health sciences", "03 medical and health sciences", "Haplotypes", "DNA", " Chloroplast", "Genetic Variation", "cpDNA; genetic diversity; gypsophiles; Lepidium subulatum; nuclear microsatellites; phylogeography; pollen flow; population structure; seed dispersal.", "15. Life on land", "Calcium Sulfate", "Phylogeny"]}, "links": [{"href": "https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/pdf/10.1002/ajb2.1625"}, {"href": "https://doi.org/10.1002/ajb2.1625"}, {"rel": "related", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main/items/American%20Journal%20of%20Botany", "name": "related record", "description": "related record", "type": "application/json"}, {"rel": "self", "type": "application/geo+json", "title": "10.1002/ajb2.1625", "name": "item", "description": "10.1002/ajb2.1625", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main/items/10.1002/ajb2.1625"}, {"rel": "collection", "type": "application/json", "title": "Collection", "name": "collection", "description": "Collection", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main"}], "time": {"date": "2021-03-01T00:00:00Z"}}, {"id": "10.1002/2016JD026099", "type": "Feature", "geometry": null, "properties": {"license": "Open Access", "updated": "2026-05-30T16:14:24Z", "type": "Journal Article", "created": "2017-04-07", "title": "Global soil moisture bimodality in satellite observations and climate models", "description": "Abstract<p>A new diagnostic metric based on soil moisture bimodality is developed in order to examine and compare soil moisture from satellite observations and Earth System Models. The methodology to derive this diagnostic is based on maximum likelihood estimator encoded into an iterative algorithm, which is applied to the soil moisture probability density function. This metric is applied to satellite data from the Advanced Microwave Scanning Radiometer for the Earth Observing System and global climate models data from the Coupled Model Intercomparison Project Phase 5 (CMIP5). Results show high soil moisture bimodality in transitional climate areas and high latitudes, potentially associated with land\uffe2\uff80\uff90atmosphere feedback processes. When comparing satellite versus climate models, a clear difference in their soil moisture bimodality is observed, with systematically higher values in the case of CMIP5 models. These differences appear related to areas where land\uffe2\uff80\uff90atmospheric feedback may be overestimated in current climate models.</p>", "keywords": ["PREFERENTIAL STATES", "IMPACT", "MIXTURE", "SCHEME", "0207 environmental engineering", "NORMAL-DISTRIBUTIONS", "02 engineering and technology", "15. Life on land", "01 natural sciences", "PART I", "satellite soil moisture", "climate models", "13. Climate action", "Earth and Environmental Sciences", "LAND-SURFACE MODEL", "PRECIPITATION", "SDG 13 - Climate Action", "CMIP5", "ATMOSPHERE COUPLING EXPERIMENT", "land-atmosphere interactions", "soil moisture", "bimodality", "SYSTEM", "0105 earth and related environmental sciences"]}, "links": [{"href": "https://agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/pdf/10.1002/2016JD026099"}, {"href": "https://doi.org/10.1002/2016JD026099"}, {"rel": "related", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main/items/Journal%20of%20Geophysical%20Research%3A%20Atmospheres", "name": "related record", "description": "related record", "type": "application/json"}, {"rel": "self", "type": "application/geo+json", "title": "10.1002/2016JD026099", "name": "item", "description": "10.1002/2016JD026099", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main/items/10.1002/2016JD026099"}, {"rel": "collection", "type": "application/json", "title": "Collection", "name": "collection", "description": "Collection", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main"}], "time": {"date": "2017-04-27T00:00:00Z"}}, {"id": "10.1002/2016WR020175", "type": "Feature", "geometry": null, "properties": {"license": "Open Access", "updated": "2026-05-30T16:14:25Z", "type": "Journal Article", "created": "2017-03-11", "title": "The future of evapotranspiration: Global requirements for ecosystem functioning, carbon and climate feedbacks, agricultural management, and water resources", "description": "Abstract<p>The fate of the terrestrial biosphere is highly uncertain given recent and projected changes in climate. This is especially acute for impacts associated with changes in drought frequency and intensity on the distribution and timing of water availability. The development of effective adaptation strategies for these emerging threats to food and water security are compromised by limitations in our understanding of how natural and managed ecosystems are responding to changing hydrological and climatological regimes. This information gap is exacerbated by insufficient monitoring capabilities from local to global scales. Here, we describe how evapotranspiration (ET) represents the key variable in linking ecosystem functioning, carbon and climate feedbacks, agricultural management, and water resources, and highlight both the outstanding science and applications questions and the actions, especially from a space\uffe2\uff80\uff90based perspective, necessary to advance them.</p>", "keywords": ["2. Zero hunger", "ecosystem", "biosphere", "changement climatique", "550", "[SDV]Life Sciences [q-bio]", "satellite", "evapotranspiration", "drought", "disponibilit\u00e9 en eau", "15. Life on land", "global", "water resources", "\u00e9cosyst\u00e8me", "01 natural sciences", "6. Clean water", "[SDV] Life Sciences [q-bio]", "13. Climate action", "Earth Sciences", "climate", "global change", "agriculture", "s\u00e9cheresse", "0105 earth and related environmental sciences"]}, "links": [{"href": "https://agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/pdf/10.1002/2016WR020175"}, {"href": "https://doi.org/10.1002/2016WR020175"}, {"rel": "related", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main/items/Water%20Resources%20Research", "name": "related record", "description": "related record", "type": "application/json"}, {"rel": "self", "type": "application/geo+json", "title": "10.1002/2016WR020175", "name": "item", "description": "10.1002/2016WR020175", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main/items/10.1002/2016WR020175"}, {"rel": "collection", "type": "application/json", "title": "Collection", "name": "collection", "description": "Collection", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main"}], "time": {"date": "2017-04-01T00:00:00Z"}}, {"id": "10.1016/j.apsoil.2017.05.029", "type": "Feature", "geometry": null, "properties": {"license": "Open Access", "updated": "2026-05-30T16:16:11Z", "type": "Journal Article", "created": "2017-06-30", "title": "A large set of microsatellites for the highly invasive earthworm Amynthas corticis predicted from low coverage genomes", "description": "Invasive species can significantly affect local biodiversity and create important challenges for conservation. They usually present an outstanding plasticity that permits the adaptation to the new environments. Understanding their genetic background is fundamental to better comprehend invasion dynamics and elaborate proper management plans as well to infer population and evolutionary patterns. Here, we present a reasonable set of tools for the study of a highly invasive earthworm, the megascolecid Amynthas corticis. We designed in silico a large set of primers targeting microsatellite regions (ca. 9400) from two low coverage genomes presented here. This study provides 154 high quality primer pairs targeting polymorphic repeats conserved in two Amynthas corticis mitochondrial lineages. From this dataset, a set of primer pairs (15) was validated by polymerase chain reaction with 86% consistent amplification, confirming the accuracy of the in silico prediction. Nine of the primer pairs tested were selected for population genetics and presented polymorphism in the studied populations, thus showing promising potential for future studies of this global invasive species. The nuclear markers used in this study appear to recapitulate and complement the mitochondrial relationships found in a previous study. Interestingly, all genotyped individuals showed at least one triploid locus profile among the tested loci, which may be evidence of polyploidy associated to their life history, in particular to asexual reproduction by parthenogenesis.", "keywords": ["Ecolog\u00eda (Biolog\u00eda)", "Microsatellite markers", "Invasive species", "Invertebrados", "15. Life on land", "636.082.11", "Gen\u00e9tica", "2401.08 Gen\u00e9tica Animal", "3. Good health", "2401.91 Invertebrados no Insectos", "Bioinformatics prediction", "2401.06 Ecolog\u00eda Animal", "595.1", "Earthworms", "Mitochondrial lineages", "574.3"]}, "links": [{"href": "https://orca.cardiff.ac.uk/id/eprint/101404/1/Applied%20soil.pdf"}, {"href": "https://doi.org/10.1016/j.apsoil.2017.05.029"}, {"rel": "related", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main/items/Applied%20Soil%20Ecology", "name": "related record", "description": "related record", "type": "application/json"}, {"rel": "self", "type": "application/geo+json", "title": "10.1016/j.apsoil.2017.05.029", "name": "item", "description": "10.1016/j.apsoil.2017.05.029", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main/items/10.1016/j.apsoil.2017.05.029"}, {"rel": "collection", "type": "application/json", "title": "Collection", "name": "collection", "description": "Collection", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main"}], "time": {"date": "2017-10-01T00:00:00Z"}}, {"id": "10.1016/j.apsoil.2017.08.009", "type": "Feature", "geometry": null, "properties": {"license": "Open Access", "updated": "2026-05-30T16:16:11Z", "type": "Journal Article", "created": "2017-09-18", "title": "Changes in the genetic structure of an invasive earthworm species (Lumbricus terrestris, Lumbricidae) along an urban \u2013 rural gradient in North America", "description": "European earthworms were introduced to North America by European settlers about 400 years ago. Human-mediated introductions significantly contributed to the spread of European species, which commonly are used as fishing bait and are often disposed deliberately in the wild. We investigated the genetic structure of Lumbricus terrestris in a 100 km range south of Calgary, Canada, an area that likely was devoid of this species two decades ago. Genetic relationships among populations, gene flow, and migration events among populations were investigated using seven microsatellite markers and the mitochondrial 16S rDNA gene. Earthworms were collected at different distances from the city and included fishing baits from three different bait distributors. The results suggest that field populations in Alberta established rather recently and that bait and field individuals in the study area have a common origin. Genetic variance within populations decreased outside of the urban area, and the most distant populations likely originated from a single introduction event. The results emphasise the utility of molecular tools to understand the spatial extent and connectivity of populations of exotic species, in particular soil-delling species, that invade native ecosystems and to obtain information on the origin of populations. Such information is crucial for developing management and prevention strategies to limit and control establishment of non-native earthworms in North America.", "keywords": ["0106 biological sciences", "0301 basic medicine", "570", "03 medical and health sciences", "Ecology", " evolutionary biology", "11. Sustainability", "15. Life on land", "Microsatellites", " Exotic earthworms", " Invasion", " Gene flow", " Dispersal", " Population structure", " Soil", "01 natural sciences"]}, "links": [{"href": "https://doi.org/10.1016/j.apsoil.2017.08.009"}, {"rel": "related", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main/items/Applied%20Soil%20Ecology", "name": "related record", "description": "related record", "type": "application/json"}, {"rel": "self", "type": "application/geo+json", "title": "10.1016/j.apsoil.2017.08.009", "name": "item", "description": "10.1016/j.apsoil.2017.08.009", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main/items/10.1016/j.apsoil.2017.08.009"}, {"rel": "collection", "type": "application/json", "title": "Collection", "name": "collection", "description": "Collection", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main"}], "time": {"date": "2017-11-01T00:00:00Z"}}, {"id": "10.1016/j.atmosenv.2022.119530", "type": "Feature", "geometry": null, "properties": {"updated": "2026-05-30T16:16:13Z", "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", "01 natural sciences", "7. Clean energy", "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/10.1016/j.atmosenv.2022.119530"}, {"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": "10.1016/j.atmosenv.2022.119530", "name": "item", "description": "10.1016/j.atmosenv.2022.119530", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main/items/10.1016/j.atmosenv.2022.119530"}, {"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": "10.1016/j.envsoft.2020.104770", "type": "Feature", "geometry": null, "properties": {"updated": "2026-05-30T16:16:37Z", "type": "Journal Article", "created": "2020-06-16", "title": "METRIC-GIS: An advanced energy balance model for computing crop evapotranspiration in a GIS environment", "description": "A novel ArcGIS toolbox that applies the Mapping Evapotranspiration with Internalized Calibration model was developed and tested in a semi-arid environment. The tool, named METRIC-GIS, facilitates the pre-processing operations and the automatic identification of potential calibration and pixels review. The energy balance components obtained from METRIC-GIS were contrasted with those from the original METRIC version (R2 = 1; RMSE = 0 W m\u22122 or mm day\u22121 for ETc) Additionally, an irrigated scheme located at southern Spain was considered for assessing Kc variability in the maize fields with METRIC-GIS. The identified spatial variability was mainly due to differences in irrigation regimes, crop management practices, and planting and harvesting dates. This information is critical for developing irrigation advisory strategies that contribute to the area sustainability. The developed tool facilitates data input introduction and reduces computational time by up to 50%, providing a more user-friendly alternative to other existing platforms that use METRIC. This research was funded by the projects RTA2011-00015-00-00 funded by the National Institute for Agricultural and Food Research and Technology (INIA) and FEDER 2014\u20132020 \u201cPrograma Operativo de Crecimiento Inteligente\u201d and by the European Commission with project \u201cSHui\u201d (grant number: 773903). Additional funding support was provided by the Nebraska Agricultural Experiment Station and Idaho Agricultural Experiment Station.", "keywords": ["550", "satellite", "evapotranspiration", "0207 environmental engineering", "02 engineering and technology", "630", "Modelling", "Water requirements", "modelling", "remote sensing", "Natural Resources and Conservation", "crop coefficient", "2. Zero hunger", "Evapotranspiration", "Natural Resources Management and Policy", "Crop coefficients", "water requirements", "04 agricultural and veterinary sciences", "Remote sensing", "15. Life on land", "6. Clean water", "Satellite", "Crop coefficient", "0401 agriculture", " forestry", " and fisheries", "Other Environmental Sciences", "Environmental Sciences"]}, "links": [{"href": "https://www.iris.unict.it/bitstream/20.500.11769/552482/2/Environmental%20modelling%20and%20software%202020.pdf"}, {"href": "https://doi.org/10.1016/j.envsoft.2020.104770"}, {"rel": "related", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main/items/Environmental%20Modelling%20%26amp%3B%20Software", "name": "related record", "description": "related record", "type": "application/json"}, {"rel": "self", "type": "application/geo+json", "title": "10.1016/j.envsoft.2020.104770", "name": "item", "description": "10.1016/j.envsoft.2020.104770", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main/items/10.1016/j.envsoft.2020.104770"}, {"rel": "collection", "type": "application/json", "title": "Collection", "name": "collection", "description": "Collection", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main"}], "time": {"date": "2020-09-01T00:00:00Z"}}, {"id": "10.1016/j.jag.2024.103659", "type": "Feature", "geometry": null, "properties": {"license": "Open Access", "updated": "2026-05-30T16:17:01Z", "type": "Journal Article", "created": "2024-01-21", "title": "Automatized Sentinel-2 mosaicking for large area forest mapping", "description": "Creating maps of forest inventory variables is commonly taking advantage of satellite images, which are mosaicked together for gaining larger coverage. Recently, mosaicking has increasingly shifted towards user friendly cloud-based online environments such as Google Earth Engine (GEE), which are equipped with huge image repositories and extensive processing capabilities. This enables the easy transferability of workflows into new image sets and diversifies the range of methodological options for mosaicking. The quality control of the output mosaic, ensuring that the reflectance values are representative to the targeted land cover, is however primarily based on certain assumptions or pre-set rules which may not always produce an optimal result. Our study focuses on assessing and comparing the performance of three different mosaicking algorithms for predicting forest inventory variables, based on an extensive set of field data on the main site type, fertility class, and volume and biomass of growing stock. One of the compared mosaics derives from manual image selection, thus enabling rigorous visual quality control, and two others are resting on GEE-assisted automatized methods which include applying a percentile-based statistic over all the input reflectance values and selecting the best pixels using predefined quality indicators. The results indicate that the manual and the percentile-based mosaics are generally providing the best and relatively equal performance levels. Compared to them, the quality-based mosaic has slightly lower accuracy particularly when predicting continuous variables (i.e., the volume and biomass of growing stock) and it suffers from minor image defects. For the total volume of growing stock, for example, the RMS errors are 56.22 % for the manual, 56.33 % for the percentile-based, and 59.47 % for the quality-based mosaics, respectively. These results indicate that from the perspective of large area forest mapping, automatically generated mosaics may provide approximately similar accuracy as compared to manually controlled workflow at a fraction of the workload.", "keywords": ["Image mosaicking", "Physical geography", "791", "forest research", "04 agricultural and veterinary sciences", "15. Life on land", "Feature prediction", "01 natural sciences", "GB3-5030", "Environmental sciences", "0401 agriculture", " forestry", " and fisheries", "GE1-350", "Sentinel-2", "Google Earth Engine", "satellite images", "Forest inventory", "0105 earth and related environmental sciences"], "contacts": [{"organization": "Balazs Andras, Tuominen Sakari, Pitk\u00e4nen Timo P.,", "roles": ["creator"]}]}, "links": [{"href": "https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jag.2024.103659"}, {"rel": "related", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main/items/International%20Journal%20of%20Applied%20Earth%20Observation%20and%20Geoinformation", "name": "related record", "description": "related record", "type": "application/json"}, {"rel": "self", "type": "application/geo+json", "title": "10.1016/j.jag.2024.103659", "name": "item", "description": "10.1016/j.jag.2024.103659", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main/items/10.1016/j.jag.2024.103659"}, {"rel": "collection", "type": "application/json", "title": "Collection", "name": "collection", "description": "Collection", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main"}], "time": {"date": "2024-03-01T00:00:00Z"}}, {"id": "10.1016/j.rse.2018.03.035", "type": "Feature", "geometry": null, "properties": {"license": "Open Access", "updated": "2026-05-30T16:17:15Z", "type": "Journal Article", "created": "2018-04-09", "title": "Enhanced canopy growth precedes senescence in 2005 and 2010 Amazonian droughts", "description": "Abstract   Unprecedented droughts hit southern Amazonia in 2005 and 2010, causing a sharp increase in tree mortality and carbon loss. To better predict the rainforest's response to future droughts, it is necessary to understand its behavior during past events. Satellite observations provide a practical source of continuous observations of Amazonian forest. Here we used a passive microwave-based vegetation water content record (i.e., vegetation optical depth, VOD), together with multiple hydrometeorological observations as well as conventional satellite vegetation measures, to investigate the rainforest canopy dynamics during the 2005 and 2010 droughts. During the onset of droughts in the wet-to-dry season (May\u2013July) of both years, we found large-scale positive anomalies in VOD, leaf area index (LAI) and enhanced vegetation index (EVI) over the southern Amazonia. These observations are very likely caused by enhanced canopy growth. Concurrent below-average rainfall and above-average radiation during the wet-to-dry season can be interpreted as an early arrival of normal dry season conditions, leading to enhanced new leaf development and ecosystem photosynthesis, as supported by field observations. Our results suggest that further rainfall deficit into the subsequent dry season caused water and heat stress during the peak of 2005 and 2010 droughts (August\u2013October) that exceeded the tolerance limits of the rainforest, leading to widespread negative VOD anomalies over the southern Amazonia. Significant VOD anomalies were observed mainly over the western part in 2005 and mainly over central and eastern parts in 2010. The total area with significant negative VOD anomalies was comparable between these two drought years, though the average magnitude of significant negative VOD anomalies was greater in 2005. This finding broadly agrees with the field observations indicating that the reduction in biomass carbon uptake was stronger in 2005 than 2010. The enhanced canopy growth preceding drought-induced senescence should be taken into account when interpreting the ecological impacts of Amazonian droughts.", "keywords": ["0301 basic medicine", "550", "Canopy water content", "Amazonian droughts", "satellite", "15. Life on land", "01 natural sciences", "6. Clean water", "Vapor pressure deficit", "Surface temperature", "03 medical and health sciences", "Passive microwave", "Satellite", "13. Climate action", "Soil water deficit", "canopy water content", "0105 earth and related environmental sciences"]}, "links": [{"href": "https://scholarworks.iupui.edu/bitstream/1805/17654/1/Liu_2018_enhanced.pdf"}, {"href": "https://doi.org/10.1016/j.rse.2018.03.035"}, {"rel": "related", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main/items/Remote%20Sensing%20of%20Environment", "name": "related record", "description": "related record", "type": "application/json"}, {"rel": "self", "type": "application/geo+json", "title": "10.1016/j.rse.2018.03.035", "name": "item", "description": "10.1016/j.rse.2018.03.035", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main/items/10.1016/j.rse.2018.03.035"}, {"rel": "collection", "type": "application/json", "title": "Collection", "name": "collection", "description": "Collection", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main"}], "time": {"date": "2018-06-01T00:00:00Z"}}, {"id": "10.1016/j.scitotenv.2021.152880", "type": "Feature", "geometry": null, "properties": {"updated": "2026-05-30T16:17:21Z", "type": "Journal Article", "created": "2022-01-06", "title": "Exploring the potential role of environmental and multi-source satellite data in crop yield prediction across Northeast China", "description": "Open AccessLe d\u00e9veloppement d'un syst\u00e8me pr\u00e9cis de pr\u00e9diction du rendement des cultures \u00e0 grande \u00e9chelle est d'une importance primordiale pour la gestion des ressources agricoles et la s\u00e9curit\u00e9 alimentaire mondiale. L'observation de la Terre fournit une source unique d'informations pour surveiller les cultures \u00e0 partir d'une diversit\u00e9 de gammes spectrales. Cependant, l'utilisation int\u00e9gr\u00e9e de ces donn\u00e9es et de leurs valeurs dans la pr\u00e9diction du rendement des cultures est encore peu \u00e9tudi\u00e9e. Ici, nous avons propos\u00e9 la combinaison de donn\u00e9es environnementales (climat, sol, g\u00e9ographie et topographie) avec de multiples donn\u00e9es satellitaires (indices de v\u00e9g\u00e9tation optiques, fluorescence induite par le soleil (SIF), temp\u00e9rature de surface du sol (LST) et profondeur optique de la v\u00e9g\u00e9tation micro-ondes (VOD)) dans le cadre pour estimer le rendement des cultures de ma\u00efs, de riz et de soja dans le nord-est de la Chine, et leur valeur unique et leur influence relative sur la pr\u00e9diction du rendement ont \u00e9t\u00e9 \u00e9valu\u00e9es. Deux m\u00e9thodes de r\u00e9gression lin\u00e9aire, trois m\u00e9thodes d'apprentissage automatique (ML) et un mod\u00e8le d'ensemble ML ont \u00e9t\u00e9 adopt\u00e9s pour construire des mod\u00e8les de pr\u00e9diction de rendement. Les r\u00e9sultats ont montr\u00e9 que les m\u00e9thodes individuelles de ML surpassaient les m\u00e9thodes de r\u00e9gression lin\u00e9aire, le mod\u00e8le d'ensemble de ML a encore am\u00e9lior\u00e9 les mod\u00e8les de ML uniques. De plus, les mod\u00e8les avec plus d'intrants ont obtenu de meilleures performances, la combinaison de donn\u00e9es satellitaires avec des donn\u00e9es environnementales, qui expliquaient respectivement 72\u00a0%, 69\u00a0% et 57\u00a0% de la variabilit\u00e9 du rendement du ma\u00efs, du riz et du soja, a d\u00e9montr\u00e9 des performances de pr\u00e9diction du rendement sup\u00e9rieures \u00e0 celles des intrants individuels. Alors que les donn\u00e9es satellitaires ont contribu\u00e9 \u00e0 la pr\u00e9diction du rendement des cultures principalement au d\u00e9but de la pointe de la saison de croissance, les donn\u00e9es climatiques ont fourni des informations suppl\u00e9mentaires principalement \u00e0 la pointe de la fin de la saison. Nous avons \u00e9galement constat\u00e9 que l'utilisation combin\u00e9e de l'IVE, du LST et du SIF a am\u00e9lior\u00e9 la pr\u00e9cision du mod\u00e8le par rapport au mod\u00e8le d'IVE de r\u00e9f\u00e9rence. Cependant, les indices de v\u00e9g\u00e9tation bas\u00e9s sur l'optique partageaient des informations similaires et ne fournissaient pas beaucoup d'informations suppl\u00e9mentaires au-del\u00e0 de l'IVE. Les pr\u00e9visions de rendement en cours de saison ont montr\u00e9 que les rendements des cultures peuvent \u00eatre pr\u00e9vus de mani\u00e8re satisfaisante deux \u00e0 trois mois avant la r\u00e9colte. La g\u00e9ographie, la topographie, la VOD, l'IVE, les param\u00e8tres hydrauliques du sol et les param\u00e8tres nutritifs sont plus importants pour la pr\u00e9diction du rendement des cultures.", "keywords": ["Atmospheric sciences", "Climate", "Multi-source satellite data", "Normalized Difference Vegetation Index", "Engineering", "Pathology", "Climate change", "Urban Heat Islands and Mitigation Strategies", "Linear regression", "2. Zero hunger", "Global and Planetary Change", "Vegetation Monitoring", "Ecology", "Geography", "Statistics", "Agriculture", "Geology", "Remote Sensing in Vegetation Monitoring and Phenology", "04 agricultural and veterinary sciences", "Remote sensing", "Aerospace engineering", "Archaeology", "Physical Sciences", "Metallurgy", "Medicine", "Seasons", "Global Vegetation Models", "Biomass Estimation", "Regression analysis", "Vegetation (pathology)", "Crops", " Agricultural", "Environmental Engineering", "Environmental data", "Yield (engineering)", "Zea mays", "Environmental science", "Machine learning", "FOS: Mathematics", "Crop yield", "Biology", "Global Forest Drought Response and Climate Change", "FOS: Environmental engineering", "Predictive modelling", "Food security", "FOS: Earth and related environmental sciences", "15. Life on land", "Agronomy", "Materials science", "Yield prediction", "Satellite", "13. Climate action", "FOS: Biological sciences", "Environmental Science", "Growing season", "0401 agriculture", " forestry", " and fisheries", "Mathematics"], "contacts": [{"organization": "Zhenwang Li, Lei Ding, Donghui Xu,", "roles": ["creator"]}]}, "links": [{"href": "https://doi.org/10.1016/j.scitotenv.2021.152880"}, {"rel": "related", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main/items/Science%20of%20The%20Total%20Environment", "name": "related record", "description": "related record", "type": "application/json"}, {"rel": "self", "type": "application/geo+json", "title": "10.1016/j.scitotenv.2021.152880", "name": "item", "description": "10.1016/j.scitotenv.2021.152880", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main/items/10.1016/j.scitotenv.2021.152880"}, {"rel": "collection", "type": "application/json", "title": "Collection", "name": "collection", "description": "Collection", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main"}], "time": {"date": "2022-04-01T00:00:00Z"}}, {"id": "10.1016/j.scitotenv.2024.170593", "type": "Feature", "geometry": null, "properties": {"license": "Open Access", "updated": "2026-05-30T16:17:22Z", "type": "Journal Article", "created": "2024-02-01", "title": "Science of the Total Environment", "description": "Aerosol Optical Depth (AOD) data derived from satellites is crucial for estimating spatially-resolved PM concentrations, but existing AOD data over land remain affected by several limitations (e.g., data gaps, coarser resolution, higher uncertainty or lack of size fraction data), which weakens the AOD-PM relationship. We developed a 0.1\u00b0 resolution daily AOD data set over Europe over the period 2003-2020, based on two-stage Quantile Machine Learning (QML) frameworks. Our approach first fills gaps in satellite AOD data and then constructs three components' models to obtain reliable full-coverage AOD along with Fine-mode AOD (fAOD) and Coarse-mode AOD (cAOD). These models are based on AERONET (AErosol RObotic NETwork) observations, Gap-filled satellite AOD, climate and atmospheric composition reanalyses. Our QML AOD products exhibit better quality with an out-of-sample R2 equal to 0.68 for AOD, 0.66 for fAOD and 0.65 for cAOD, which is 23-92\u00a0%, 11-13\u00a0% and 115-132\u00a0% higher than the corresponding satellite or reanalysis products, respectively. Over 91.6\u00a0%, 81.6\u00a0%, and 88.9\u00a0% of QML AOD, fAOD and cAOD predictions fall within \u00b120\u00a0% Expected Error (EE) envelopes, respectively. Previous studies reported that a weak satellite AOD-PM correlation across Europe (Pearson correlation coefficient (PCC) around 0.1). Our QML products exhibit higher correlations with ground-level PMs, particularly when broadly matched by size: AOD with PM10, fAOD with PM2.5, cAOD with PM coarse (R\u00a0=\u00a00.41, 0.45 and 0.26, respectively). Different AOD fractions more effectively distinct PM size fractions, than total AOD. Our QML aerosol dataset and models pioneer full-coverage, daily high-resolution monitoring of fine-mode and coarse-mode aerosols, effectively addressing existing AOD challenges for further PMs exposures' estimations. This dataset opens avenues for more in-depth exploration of the impacts of aerosols on human health, climate, visibility, and biogeochemical processes, offering valuable insights for air quality management and environmental health risk assessment.", "keywords": ["cAOD", "Satellite", "13. Climate action", "Simulaci\u00f3 per ordinador", "11. Sustainability", "fAOD", "Aerosol Optical Depth", "\u00c0rees tem\u00e0tiques de la UPC::Desenvolupament hum\u00e0 i sostenible::Degradaci\u00f3 ambiental::Contaminaci\u00f3 atmosf\u00e8rica", "14. Life underwater", "Atmospheric aerosols", "Particulate matter", "Aerosol", "3. Good health"]}, "links": [{"href": "https://doi.org/10.1016/j.scitotenv.2024.170593"}, {"rel": "related", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main/items/Science%20of%20The%20Total%20Environment", "name": "related record", "description": "related record", "type": "application/json"}, {"rel": "self", "type": "application/geo+json", "title": "10.1016/j.scitotenv.2024.170593", "name": "item", "description": "10.1016/j.scitotenv.2024.170593", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main/items/10.1016/j.scitotenv.2024.170593"}, {"rel": "collection", "type": "application/json", "title": "Collection", "name": "collection", "description": "Collection", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main"}], "time": {"date": "2024-03-01T00:00:00Z"}}, {"id": "10.1029/2019wr025310", "type": "Feature", "geometry": null, "properties": {"license": "Open Access", "updated": "2026-05-30T16:18:12Z", "type": "Journal Article", "created": "2019-11-11", "title": "A Precipitation Recycling Network to Assess Freshwater Vulnerability: Challenging the Watershed Convention", "description": "Abstract<p>Water resources and water scarcity are usually regarded as local aspects for which a watershed\uffe2\uff80\uff90based management appears adequate. However, precipitation, as a main source of freshwater, may depend on moisture supplied through land evaporation from outside the watershed. This notion of evaporation as a local \uffe2\uff80\uff9cgreen water\uffe2\uff80\uff9d supply to precipitation is typically not considered in hydrological water assessments. Here we propose the concept of a watershed precipitation recycling network, which establishes atmospheric pathways and links land surface evaporation as a moisture supply to precipitation, hence contributing to local but also remote freshwater resources. Our results show that up to 74% of summer precipitation over European watersheds depends on moisture supplied from other watersheds, which contradicts the conventional consideration of autarkic watersheds. The proposed network approach illustrates atmospheric pathways and enables the objective assessment of freshwater vulnerability and water scarcity risks under global change. The illustrated watershed interdependence emphasizes the need for global water governance to secure freshwater availability.</p>", "keywords": ["CLIMATE-CHANGE", "0207 environmental engineering", "02 engineering and technology", "MOISTURE", "15. Life on land", "01 natural sciences", "6. Clean water", "TIME", "12. Responsible consumption", "EVAPORATION", "VARIABILITY", "13. Climate action", "Earth and Environmental Sciences", "USE IMPACTS", "IRRIGATION", "11. Sustainability", "SCARCITY", "MULTIMODEL", "SATELLITE", "Research Articles", "Water Science and Technology", "0105 earth and related environmental sciences"]}, "links": [{"href": "https://agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/pdf/10.1029/2019WR025310"}, {"href": "https://doi.org/10.1029/2019wr025310"}, {"rel": "related", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main/items/Water%20Resources%20Research", "name": "related record", "description": "related record", "type": "application/json"}, {"rel": "self", "type": "application/geo+json", "title": "10.1029/2019wr025310", "name": "item", "description": "10.1029/2019wr025310", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main/items/10.1029/2019wr025310"}, {"rel": "collection", "type": "application/json", "title": "Collection", "name": "collection", "description": "Collection", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main"}], "time": {"date": "2019-11-01T00:00:00Z"}}, {"id": "10.1029/2022je007190", "type": "Feature", "geometry": null, "properties": {"updated": "2026-05-30T16:18:13Z", "type": "Journal Article", "created": "2022-01-25", "title": "InSight Pressure Data Recalibration, and Its Application to the Study of Long-Term Pressure Changes on Mars", "description": "Abstract<p>Observations of the South Polar Residual Cap suggest a possible erosion of the cap, leading to an increase of the global mass of the atmosphere. We test this assumption by making the first comparison between Viking 1 and InSight surface pressure data, which were recorded 40\uffc2\uffa0years apart. Such a comparison also allows us to determine changes in the dynamics of the seasonal ice caps between these two periods. To do so, we first had to recalibrate the InSight pressure data because of their unexpected sensitivity to the sensor temperature. Then, we had to design a procedure to compare distant pressure measurements. We propose two surface pressure interpolation methods at the local and global scale to do the comparison. The comparison of Viking and InSight seasonal surface pressure variations does not show changes larger than \uffc2\uffb18\uffc2\uffa0Pa in the CO2 cycle. Such conclusions are supported by an analysis of Mars Science Laboratory (MSL) pressure data. Further comparisons with images of the south seasonal cap taken by the Viking 2 orbiter and MARCI camera do not display significant changes in the dynamics of this cap over a 40\uffc2\uffa0year period. Only a possible larger extension of the North Cap after the global storm of MY 34 is observed, but the physical mechanisms behind this anomaly are not well determined. Finally, the first comparison of MSL and InSight pressure data suggests a pressure deficit at Gale crater during southern summer, possibly resulting from a large presence of dust suspended within the crater.</p>", "keywords": ["Atmospheric sciences", "550", "Astronomy", "Atmosphere (unit)", "FOS: Mechanical engineering", "Library science", "Oceanography", "01 natural sciences", "CO<SUB>2</SUB> ice", "pressure", "Mars Exploration Program", "Engineering", "Surface pressure", "Storm", "Martian Climate", "Space Suit Design and Ergonomics for EVA", "Martian Atmosphere", "Earth and Planetary Astrophysics (astro-ph.EP)", "Climatology", "Global and Planetary Change", "Geography", "Martian Surface", "Physics", "Geology", "Impact crater", "Condensed matter physics", "Anomaly (physics)", "World Wide Web", "Algorithm", "Satellite Observations", "Residual", "Physical Sciences", "Exploration and Study of Mars", "Astrophysics - Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics", "Research Article", "FOS: Physical sciences", "Mars", "Aerospace Engineering", "Pressure gradient", "Environmental science", "[SDU] Sciences of the Universe [physics]", "atmospheric mass", "Meteorology", "Orbiter", "0103 physical sciences", "Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics (astro-ph.IM)", "Formation and Evolution of the Solar System", "0105 earth and related environmental sciences", "Pressure system", "CO 2 ice", "Astronomy and Astrophysics", "FOS: Earth and related environmental sciences", "Astrobiology", "Computer science", "Physics and Astronomy", "[SDU]Sciences of the Universe [physics]", "13. Climate action", "Global Methane Emissions and Impacts", "Environmental Science", "cap sublimation", "Water on Mars", "Astrophysics - Earth and Planetary Astrophysics"]}, "links": [{"href": "https://agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/pdf/10.1029/2022JE007190"}, {"href": "https://doi.org/10.1029/2022je007190"}, {"rel": "related", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main/items/Journal%20of%20Geophysical%20Research%3A%20Planets", "name": "related record", "description": "related record", "type": "application/json"}, {"rel": "self", "type": "application/geo+json", "title": "10.1029/2022je007190", "name": "item", "description": "10.1029/2022je007190", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main/items/10.1029/2022je007190"}, {"rel": "collection", "type": "application/json", "title": "Collection", "name": "collection", "description": "Collection", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main"}], "time": {"date": "2022-01-25T00:00:00Z"}}, {"id": "10.1029/2024jg008231", "type": "Feature", "geometry": null, "properties": {"license": "Open Access", "updated": "2026-05-30T16:18:14Z", "type": "Journal Article", "created": "2024-10-17", "title": "Assimilation of Sentinel\u20101 Backscatter to Update AquaCrop Estimates of Soil Moisture and Crop Biomass", "description": "Abstract<p>This study assesses the potential of regional microwave backscatter data assimilation (DA) in AquaCrop for the first time, using NASA's Land Information System. The objective is to assess whether the assimilation setup can improve surface soil moisture (SSM) and crop biomass estimates. SSM and crop biomass simulations from AquaCrop were updated using Sentinel\uffe2\uff80\uff901 synthetic aperture radar observations, over three regions in Europe in two separate DA experiments. The first experiment concerned updating SSM using VV\uffe2\uff80\uff90polarized backscatter and the corrections were propagated via the model to the biomass. In the second experiment, the DA setup was extended by also updating the biomass with VH\uffe2\uff80\uff90polarized backscatter. SSM was evaluated with local in situ data and with downscaled Soil Moisture Active Passive (SMAP) retrievals for all cropland grid cells, whereas crop biomass was compared to SMAP vegetation optical depth and the Copernicus dry matter productivity. The assimilation showed mixed results for root mean square error and Pearson's correlation, with slight overall improvements in the (anomaly) correlations of updated SSM relative to independent in situ and satellite data. By contrast, the biomass estimates obtained with backscatter DA did not agree better with reference data sets. Overall, the SSM evaluation showed that there is potential in using Sentinel\uffe2\uff80\uff901 backscatter for assimilation in AquaCrop, but the present setup was not able to improve crop biomass estimates. Our study reveals how the complex interaction between SSM, crop biomass and backscatter affect the impact and performance of DA, offering insight into ways to optimize DA for crop growth estimation.</p", "keywords": ["SURFACE", "SIMULATE YIELD RESPONSE", "LAND INFORMATION-SYSTEM", "FRAMEWORK", "AquaCrop", "MODEL", "Earth and Environmental Sciences", "IRRIGATION", "Sentinel-1 SAR", "NETWORK", "soil moisture", "data assimilation", "SATELLITE", "crop biomass"]}, "links": [{"href": "https://doi.org/10.1029/2024jg008231"}, {"rel": "related", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main/items/Journal%20of%20Geophysical%20Research%3A%20Biogeosciences", "name": "related record", "description": "related record", "type": "application/json"}, {"rel": "self", "type": "application/geo+json", "title": "10.1029/2024jg008231", "name": "item", "description": "10.1029/2024jg008231", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main/items/10.1029/2024jg008231"}, {"rel": "collection", "type": "application/json", "title": "Collection", "name": "collection", "description": "Collection", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main"}], "time": {"date": "2024-10-01T00:00:00Z"}}, {"id": "10.1038/s41586-023-05791-5", "type": "Feature", "geometry": null, "properties": {"updated": "2026-05-30T16:18:22Z", "type": "Journal Article", "created": "2023-03-08", "title": "The giant diploid faba genome unlocks variation in a global protein crop", "description": "Abstract<p>Increasing the proportion of locally produced plant protein in currently meat-rich diets could substantially reduce greenhouse gas emissions and loss of biodiversity1. However, plant protein production is hampered by the lack of a cool-season legume equivalent to soybean in agronomic value2. Faba bean (Vicia fabaL.) has a high yield potential and is well suited for cultivation in temperate regions, but genomic resources are scarce. Here, we report a high-quality chromosome-scale assembly of the faba bean genome and show that it has expanded to a massive 13\uffe2\uff80\uff89Gb in size through an imbalance between the rates of amplification and elimination of retrotransposons and satellite repeats. Genes and recombination events are evenly dispersed across chromosomes and the gene space is remarkably compact considering the genome size, although with substantial copy number variation driven by tandem duplication. Demonstrating practical application of the genome sequence, we develop a targeted genotyping assay and use high-resolution genome-wide association analysis to dissect the genetic basis of seed size and hilum colour. The resources presented constitute a genomics-based breeding platform for faba bean, enabling breeders and geneticists to accelerate the\uffc2\uffa0improvement of sustainable protein production across the\uffc2\uffa0Mediterranean, subtropical and northern temperate agroecological zones.</p", "keywords": ["Crops", " Agricultural", "DNA Copy Number Variations", "Retroelements", "[SDV]Life Sciences [q-bio]", "DNA", " Satellite", "Genes", " Plant", "630", "Article", "Chromosomes", " Plant", "Plant Proteins", "Recombination", " Genetic", "2. Zero hunger", "Geography", "Gene Amplification", "Genetic Variation", "Genomics", "15. Life on land", "11831 Plant biology", "Diploidy", "Agronomy", "metabolism ; Genome-Wide Association Study ; Plant Proteins ; genetics ; Plant Breeding ; Vicia faba ; DNA Copy Number Variations ; Diploidy", "Vicia faba", "[SDV] Life Sciences [q-bio]", "Plant Breeding", "Genetics", " developmental biology", " physiology", "13. Climate action", "Seeds", "Genome", " Plant", "info:eu-repo/classification/ddc/500", "Genome-Wide Association Study"]}, "links": [{"href": "https://doi.org/10.1038/s41586-023-05791-5"}, {"rel": "related", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main/items/Nature", "name": "related record", "description": "related record", "type": "application/json"}, {"rel": "self", "type": "application/geo+json", "title": "10.1038/s41586-023-05791-5", "name": "item", "description": "10.1038/s41586-023-05791-5", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main/items/10.1038/s41586-023-05791-5"}, {"rel": "collection", "type": "application/json", "title": "Collection", "name": "collection", "description": "Collection", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main"}], "time": {"date": "2022-09-26T00:00:00Z"}}, {"id": "10.1038/s41612-018-0053-5", "type": "Feature", "geometry": null, "properties": {"license": "Open Access", "updated": "2026-05-30T16:18:24Z", "type": "Journal Article", "created": "2018-11-08", "title": "Terrestrial evaporation response to modes of climate variability", "description": "Abstract<p>Large-scale modes of climate variability (or teleconnection patterns), such as the El Ni\uffc3\uffb1o Southern Oscillation and the North Atlantic Oscillation, affect local weather worldwide. However, the response of terrestrial water and energy fluxes to these modes of variability is still poorly understood. Here, we analyse the response of evaporation to 16 teleconnection patterns, using a simple supervised learning framework and global observation-based datasets of evaporation and its key climatic drivers. Our results show that the month-to-month variability in terrestrial evaporation is strongly affected by (coupled) oscillations in sea-surface temperature and air pressure: in specific hotspot regions, up to 40% of the evaporation dynamics can be explained by climate indices describing the fundamental modes of climate variability. While the El Ni\uffc3\uffb1o Southern Oscillation affects the dynamics in land evaporation worldwide, other phenomena such as the East Pacific\uffe2\uff80\uff93North Pacific teleconnection pattern are more dominant at regional scales. Most modes of climate variability affect terrestrial evaporation by inducing changes in the atmospheric demand for water. However, anomalies in precipitation associated to particular teleconnections are crucial for the evaporation in water-limited regimes, as well as in forested regions where interception loss forms a substantial fraction of total evaporation. Our results highlight the need to consider the concurrent impact of these teleconnections to accurately predict the fate of the terrestrial branch of the hydrological cycle, and provide observational evidence to help improve the representation of surface fluxes in Earth system models.</p>", "keywords": ["EVAPOTRANSPIRATION", "0207 environmental engineering", "TELECONNECTION", "02 engineering and technology", "15. Life on land", "01 natural sciences", "6. Clean water", "NORTH-ATLANTIC", "PACIFIC OSCILLATION", "13. Climate action", "Earth and Environmental Sciences", "LAND EVAPORATION", "PRECIPITATION", "PATTERNS", "HYDROCLIMATOLOGY", "TEMPERATURE", "SATELLITE", "0105 earth and related environmental sciences"]}, "links": [{"href": "https://www.nature.com/articles/s41612-018-0053-5.pdf"}, {"href": "https://doi.org/10.1038/s41612-018-0053-5"}, {"rel": "related", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main/items/npj%20Climate%20and%20Atmospheric%20Science", "name": "related record", "description": "related record", "type": "application/json"}, {"rel": "self", "type": "application/geo+json", "title": "10.1038/s41612-018-0053-5", "name": "item", "description": "10.1038/s41612-018-0053-5", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main/items/10.1038/s41612-018-0053-5"}, {"rel": "collection", "type": "application/json", "title": "Collection", "name": "collection", "description": "Collection", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main"}], "time": {"date": "2018-11-15T00:00:00Z"}}, {"id": "10.1088/1748-9326/aa7145", "type": "Feature", "geometry": null, "properties": {"updated": "2026-05-30T16:18:57Z", "type": "Journal Article", "created": "2017-05-05", "title": "Vegetation anomalies caused by antecedent precipitation in most of the world", "description": "Quantifying environmental controls on vegetation is critical to predict the net effect of climate change on global ecosystems and the subsequent feedback on climate. Following a non-linear Granger causality framework based on a random forest predictive model, we exploit the current wealth of multi-decadal satellite data records to uncover the main drivers of monthly vegetation variability at the global scale. Results indicate that water availability is the most dominant factor driving vegetation globally: about 61% of the vegetated surface was primarily water-limited during 1981\u20132010. This included semiarid climates but also transitional ecoregions. Intra-annually, temperature controls Northern Hemisphere deciduous forests during the growing season, while antecedent precipitation largely dominates vegetation dynamics during the senescence period. The uncovered dependency of global vegetation on water availability is substantially larger than previously reported. This is owed to the ability of the framework to (1) disentangle the co-linearities between radiation/temperature and precipitation, and (2) quantify non-linear impacts of climate on vegetation. Our results reveal a prolonged effect of precipitation anomalies in dry regions: due to the long memory of soil moisture and the cumulative, non-linear, response of vegetation, water-limited regions show sensitivity to the values of precipitation occurring three months earlier. Meanwhile, the impacts of temperature and radiation anomalies are more immediate and dissipate shortly, pointing to a higher resilience of vegetation to these anomalies. Despite being infrequent by definition, hydro-climatic extremes are responsible for up to 10% of the vegetation variability during the 1981\u20132010 period in certain areas, particularly in water-limited ecosystems. Our approach is a first step towards a quantitative comparison of the resistance and resilience signature of different ecosystems, and can be used to benchmark Earth system models in their representations of past vegetation sensitivity to changes in climate.", "keywords": ["Science", "QC1-999", "water", "TROPICAL FORESTS", "0207 environmental engineering", "02 engineering and technology", "SOIL-MOISTURE", "Environmental technology. Sanitary engineering", "01 natural sciences", "stress", "water stress", "global vegetation", "AMAZON", "FORESTS", "CLIMATE EXTREMES", "hydro-climatic extremes", "ecosystem resilience", "DRY-SEASON", "GE1-350", "TEMPERATURE", "SATELLITE", "TD1-1066", "0105 earth and related environmental sciences", "Physics", "Q", "Biology and Life Sciences", "15. Life on land", "6. Clean water", "Environmental sciences", "NDVI DATA", "13. Climate action", "Earth and Environmental Sciences", "GROWING-SEASON", "Granger causality", "CARBON-CYCLE"]}, "links": [{"href": "https://doi.org/10.1088/1748-9326/aa7145"}, {"rel": "related", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main/items/Environmental%20Research%20Letters", "name": "related record", "description": "related record", "type": "application/json"}, {"rel": "self", "type": "application/geo+json", "title": "10.1088/1748-9326/aa7145", "name": "item", "description": "10.1088/1748-9326/aa7145", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main/items/10.1088/1748-9326/aa7145"}, {"rel": "collection", "type": "application/json", "title": "Collection", "name": "collection", "description": "Collection", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main"}], "time": {"date": "2017-07-01T00:00:00Z"}}, {"id": "10.3390/rs11080913", "type": "Feature", "geometry": null, "properties": {"updated": "2026-05-30T16:21:58Z", "type": "Journal Article", "created": "2019-04-15", "title": "Multispectral Contrast of Archaeological Features: A Quantitative Evaluation", "description": "<p>This study provides an evaluation of spectral responses of hollow ways in Upper Mesopotamia. Hollow ways were used for the transportation of animals, carts, and other moving agents for centuries. The aim is to show how the success of spectral indices varies in describing topologically simple features even in a seemingly homogeneous geographic unit. The variation is further highlighted under the changing precipitation regime. The methodology begins with an exploration of the relationship between the date of a multispectral scene and the visibility of hollow ways. The next step is to evaluate the impact of rainfall levels on numerous indices and to quantify spectral contrast. The contrast between a hollow way and its background is evaluated with Welch\uffe2\uff80\uff99s t-test and the association between precipitation regime and spectral responses of hollow ways are investigated with Correspondence Analysis and Fisher\uffe2\uff80\uff99s test. Results highlight an intrinsic relationship between the precipitation regime and the ways in which archaeological features reflects and/or emits electromagnetic energy. Next, the categorization of spectral indices based on different rainfall levels can be used as a guidance in future studies. Finally, the study suggests contrast becomes an even more fruitful concept as one moves from the spatial domain to the spectral domain.</p>", "keywords": ["Random Forests", "Lidar", "satellite remote sensing", "Science", "Q", "0211 other engineering and technologies", "Effectiveness of data fusion", "06 humanities and the arts", "02 engineering and technology", "Data fusion", "910", "15. Life on land", "archaeology of roads", "precipitation regime", "Imaging spectroscopy", "Precipitation regime", "spectral contrast", "Hollow ways", "Natura 2000 habitat", "13. Climate action", "Satellite remote sensing", "Upper Mesopotamia", "0601 history and archaeology", "Spectral contrast", "hollow ways"]}, "links": [{"href": "http://www.mdpi.com/2072-4292/11/8/913/pdf"}, {"href": "https://iris.cnr.it/bitstream/20.500.14243/390208/1/prod_402195-doc_199283.pdf"}, {"href": "http://dro.dur.ac.uk/27994/1/27994.pdf"}, {"href": "http://dro.dur.ac.uk/27994/2/27994.pdf"}, {"href": "https://www.mdpi.com/2072-4292/11/8/913/pdf"}, {"href": "https://doi.org/10.3390/rs11080913"}, {"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/rs11080913", "name": "item", "description": "10.3390/rs11080913", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main/items/10.3390/rs11080913"}, {"rel": "collection", "type": "application/json", "title": "Collection", "name": "collection", "description": "Collection", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main"}], "time": {"date": "2019-04-15T00:00:00Z"}}, {"id": "10.1098/rstb.2017.0408", "type": "Feature", "geometry": null, "properties": {"updated": "2026-05-30T16:19:07Z", "type": "Journal Article", "created": "2018-10-08", "title": "Widespread reduction in sun-induced fluorescence from the Amazon during the 2015/2016 El Ni\u00f1o", "description": "<p>             The tropical carbon balance dominates year-to-year variations in the CO             2             exchange with the atmosphere through photosynthesis, respiration and fires. Because of its high correlation with gross primary productivity (GPP), observations of sun-induced fluorescence (SIF) are of great interest. We developed a new remotely sensed SIF product with improved signal-to-noise in the tropics, and use it here to quantify the impact of the 2015/2016 El Ni\uffc3\uffb1o\uffc2\uffa0Amazon drought. We find that SIF was strongly suppressed over areas with anomalously high temperatures and decreased levels of water in the soil. SIF went below its climatological range starting from the end of the 2015 dry season (October) and returned to normal levels by February 2016 when atmospheric conditions returned to normal, but well before the end of anomalously low precipitation that persisted through June 2016. Impacts were not uniform across the Amazon basin, with the eastern part experiencing much larger (10\uffe2\uff80\uff9315%) SIF reductions than the western part of the basin (2\uffe2\uff80\uff935%). We estimate the integrated loss of GPP relative to eight previous years to be 0.34\uffe2\uff80\uff930.48 PgC in the three-month period October\uffe2\uff80\uff93November\uffe2\uff80\uff93December 2015.           </p>           <p>This article is part of a discussion meeting issue \uffe2\uff80\uff98The impact of the 2015/2016 El Ni\uffc3\uffb1o on the terrestrial tropical carbon cycle: patterns, mechanisms and implications\uffe2\uff80\uff99.</p>", "keywords": ["0301 basic medicine", "FLUXES", "El Ni\u00f1o-Southern Oscillation", "Amazon rainforest", "sun-induced fluorescence", "El Ni\u00f1o Southern Oscillation", "drought response", "Forests", "SOUTHERN-OSCILLATION", "01 natural sciences", "Fluorescence", "Trees", "SCIAMACHY", "03 medical and health sciences", "GOME-2", "ATMOSPHERIC CARBON-DIOXIDE", "SATELLITE", "0105 earth and related environmental sciences", "El Nino-Southern Oscillation", "Amazone rainforest", "Articles", "15. Life on land", "tropical terrestrial carbon cycle", "gross primary production", "TERRESTRIAL CHLOROPHYLL FLUORESCENCE", "SIMULATIONS", "6. Clean water", "Droughts", "CLIMATE", "13. Climate action", "BALANCE", "Remote Sensing Technology", "Sunlight", "Brazil"]}, "links": [{"href": "https://royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/pdf/10.1098/rstb.2017.0408"}, {"href": "https://doi.org/10.1098/rstb.2017.0408"}, {"rel": "related", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main/items/Philosophical%20Transactions%20of%20the%20Royal%20Society%20B%3A%20Biological%20Sciences", "name": "related record", "description": "related record", "type": "application/json"}, {"rel": "self", "type": "application/geo+json", "title": "10.1098/rstb.2017.0408", "name": "item", "description": "10.1098/rstb.2017.0408", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main/items/10.1098/rstb.2017.0408"}, {"rel": "collection", "type": "application/json", "title": "Collection", "name": "collection", "description": "Collection", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main"}], "time": {"date": "2018-10-08T00:00:00Z"}}, {"id": "10.1111/ejss.70054", "type": "Feature", "geometry": null, "properties": {"updated": "2026-05-30T16:19:21Z", "type": "Journal Article", "created": "2025-02-05", "title": "Influence of Soil Texture on the Estimation of Soil Organic Carbon From Sentinel\u20102 Temporal Mosaics at\u00a034\u00a0European Sites", "description": "ABSTRACT<p>Multispectral imaging satellites such as Sentinel\uffe2\uff80\uff902 are considered a possible tool to assist in the mapping of soil organic carbon (SOC) using images of bare soil. However, the reported results are variable. The measured reflectance of the soil surface is not only related to SOC but also to several other environmental and edaphic factors. Soil texture is one such factor that strongly affects soil reflectance. Depending on the spatial correlation with SOC, the influence of soil texture may improve or hinder the estimation of SOC from spectral data. This study aimed to investigate these influences using local models at 34 sites in different pedo\uffe2\uff80\uff90climatic zones across 10 European countries. The study sites were individual agricultural fields or a few fields in close proximity. For each site, local models to predict SOC and the clay particle size fraction were developed using the Sentinel\uffe2\uff80\uff902 temporal mosaics of bare soil images. Overall, predicting SOC and clay was difficult, and prediction performances with a ratio of performance to deviation (RPD) &gt;\uffe2\uff80\uff891.5 were observed at 8 and 12 of the 34 sites for SOC and clay, respectively. A general relationship between SOC prediction performance and the correlation of SOC and clay in soil was evident but explained only a small part of the large variability we observed in SOC prediction performance across the sites. Adding information on soil texture as additional predictors improved SOC prediction on average, but the additional benefit varied strongly between the sites. The average relative importance of the different Sentinel\uffe2\uff80\uff902 bands in the SOC and clay models indicated that spectral information in the red and far\uffe2\uff80\uff90red regions of the visible spectrum was more important for SOC prediction than for clay prediction. The opposite was true for the region around 2200\uffe2\uff80\uff89nm, which was more important in the clay models.</p", "keywords": ["[SDE] Environmental Sciences", "550", "satellite", "clay", "clay ; field scale ; remote sensing ; satellite ; SOC ; soil moisture ; time series", "[SDV.SA.SDS]Life Sciences [q-bio]/Agricultural sciences/Soil study", "630", "remote sensing", "[SDE]Environmental Sciences", "SOC", "field scale", "soil moisture", "time series", "[SDV.SA.SDS] Life Sciences [q-bio]/Agricultural sciences/Soil study"], "contacts": [{"organization": "Wetterlind, J., Simmler, M., Castaldi, F., Bor\u016fvka, L., Gabriel, J., Gomes, L., Khosravi, V., K\u0131vrak, C., Koparan, M., L\u00e1zaro-L\u00f3pez, A., \u0141opatka, A., Liebisch, F., Rodriguez, J., Sava\u015f, A. \u00d6., Stenberg, B., Tun\u00e7ay, T., Vinci, I., Volungevi\u010dius, J., \u017dydelis, R., Vaudour, Emmanuelle,", "roles": ["creator"]}]}, "links": [{"href": "https://epublications.vu.lt/object/elaba:220044247/220044247.pdf"}, {"href": "https://doi.org/10.1111/ejss.70054"}, {"rel": "related", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main/items/European%20Journal%20of%20Soil%20Science", "name": "related record", "description": "related record", "type": "application/json"}, {"rel": "self", "type": "application/geo+json", "title": "10.1111/ejss.70054", "name": "item", "description": "10.1111/ejss.70054", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main/items/10.1111/ejss.70054"}, {"rel": "collection", "type": "application/json", "title": "Collection", "name": "collection", "description": "Collection", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main"}], "time": {"date": "2025-01-01T00:00:00Z"}}, {"id": "10.1111/ejss.70132", "type": "Feature", "geometry": null, "properties": {"updated": "2026-05-30T16:19:21Z", "type": "Journal Article", "created": "2025-06-14", "title": "An Open Framework for Downscaling Soil Carbon and Clay Maps Using Sensor Data: Five Case Studies Across Diverse European Landscapes", "description": "ABSTRACT                   <p>                     Sustainable soil management is recognised as a pivotal solution for addressing current and future global challenges, but existing global and national soil property maps often lack the fine\uffe2\uff80\uff90scale resolution required for local or intra\uffe2\uff80\uff90field assessments. Here, we aimed to develop an open access framework to downscale soil property maps using remote and proximal sensor data and test it for predicting soil organic carbon (SOC) and clay across different regions of Europe. To facilitate the dissemination of this framework, we developed the R package \uffe2\uff80\uff9c                     soilscaler                     \uffe2\uff80\uff9d, which contains integrated functions for producing downscaled soil maps. This approach uses coarse resolution maps as a baseline, incorporating sensor data and soil observations to train a model explaining local variation of soil properties. We tested the framework in Denmark, Northern Ireland, Lithuania, The Netherlands, and Turkey. For comparison, we also created high\uffe2\uff80\uff90resolution maps using a conventional digital soil mapping (DSM) approach for each field independently. We found that the downscaling performance depends on the quality of the coarse\uffe2\uff80\uff90resolution soil maps, the spatial variability of soil properties within a given field, and the range of inter\uffe2\uff80\uff90field variations in each country. Although the downscaling process showed lower performance than the conventional DSM approach, the results indicate that the downscaled maps better represent local variability than existing national and global soil maps. Additionally, we found that remote sensing sensors generally better represent the spatial distribution of SOC, while proximal soil sensors better capture clay contents. Future studies should focus on gathering more sensor data and correlating it with soil properties to improve predictions based solely on sensor data.                   </p", "keywords": ["soil organic carbon", "satellite", "downscaling", "fusion data", "soil management", "high-resolution maps"]}, "links": [{"href": "https://bsssjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/pdf/10.1111/ejss.70132"}, {"href": "https://doi.org/10.1111/ejss.70132"}, {"rel": "related", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main/items/European%20Journal%20of%20Soil%20Science", "name": "related record", "description": "related record", "type": "application/json"}, {"rel": "self", "type": "application/geo+json", "title": "10.1111/ejss.70132", "name": "item", "description": "10.1111/ejss.70132", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main/items/10.1111/ejss.70132"}, {"rel": "collection", "type": "application/json", "title": "Collection", "name": "collection", "description": "Collection", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main"}], "time": {"date": "2025-05-01T00:00:00Z"}}, {"id": "10.1111/j.1757-1707.2011.01113.x", "type": "Feature", "geometry": null, "properties": {"updated": "2026-05-30T16:19:47Z", "type": "Journal Article", "created": "2011-07-21", "title": "Identifying Grasslands Suitable For Cellulosic Feedstock Crops In The Greater Platte River Basin: Dynamic Modeling Of Ecosystem Performance With 250 M Emodis", "description": "Abstract<p>This study dynamically monitors ecosystem performance (EP) to identify grasslands potentially suitable for cellulosic feedstock crops (e.g., switchgrass) within the Greater Platte River Basin (GPRB). We computed grassland site potential and EP anomalies using 9\uffe2\uff80\uff90year (2000\uffe2\uff80\uff932008) time series of 250\uffc2\uffa0m expedited moderate resolution imaging spectroradiometer Normalized Difference Vegetation Index data, geophysical and biophysical data, weather and climate data, and EP models. We hypothesize that areas with fairly consistent high grassland productivity (i.e., high grassland site potential) in fair to good range condition (i.e., persistent ecosystem overperformance or normal performance, indicating a lack of severe ecological disturbance) are potentially suitable for cellulosic feedstock crop development. Unproductive (i.e., low grassland site potential) or degraded grasslands (i.e., persistent ecosystem underperformance with poor range condition) are not appropriate for cellulosic feedstock development. Grassland pixels with high or moderate ecosystem site potential and with more than 7\uffc2\uffa0years ecosystem normal performance or overperformance during 2000\uffe2\uff80\uff932008 are identified as possible regions for future cellulosic feedstock crop development (ca. 68\uffc2\uffa0000\uffc2\uffa0km2 within the GPRB, mostly in the eastern areas). Long\uffe2\uff80\uff90term climate conditions, elevation, soil organic carbon, and yearly seasonal precipitation and temperature are important performance variables to determine the suitable areas in this study. The final map delineating the suitable areas within the GPRB provides a new monitoring and modeling approach that can contribute to decision support tools to help land managers and decision makers make optimal land use decisions regarding cellulosic feedstock crop development and sustainability.</p>", "keywords": ["2. Zero hunger", "satellite remote sensing", "550", "land management", "04 agricultural and veterinary sciences", "15. Life on land", "ecosystem performance models", "cellulosic feedstock crops", "6. Clean water", "13. Climate action", "0401 agriculture", " forestry", " and fisheries", "Greater Platte River Basin", "cellulosic biofuel", "weather data", "eMODIS NDVI"]}, "links": [{"href": "https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1757-1707.2011.01113.x"}, {"rel": "related", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main/items/GCB%20Bioenergy", "name": "related record", "description": "related record", "type": "application/json"}, {"rel": "self", "type": "application/geo+json", "title": "10.1111/j.1757-1707.2011.01113.x", "name": "item", "description": "10.1111/j.1757-1707.2011.01113.x", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main/items/10.1111/j.1757-1707.2011.01113.x"}, {"rel": "collection", "type": "application/json", "title": "Collection", "name": "collection", "description": "Collection", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main"}], "time": {"date": "2011-07-21T00:00:00Z"}}, {"id": "10.1175/BAMS-D-17-0138.1", "type": "Feature", "geometry": null, "properties": {"license": "Open Access", "updated": "2026-05-30T16:20:05Z", "type": "Journal Article", "created": "2018-09-11", "title": "MSWEP V2 global 3-hourly 0.1\u00b0 precipitation: methodology and quantitative assessment", "description": "Abstract<p>We present Multi-Source Weighted-Ensemble Precipitation, version 2 (MSWEP V2), a gridded precipitation P dataset spanning 1979\uffe2\uff80\uff932017. MSWEP V2 is unique in several aspects: i) full global coverage (all land and oceans); ii) high spatial (0.1\uffc2\uffb0) and temporal (3 hourly) resolution; iii) optimal merging of P estimates based on gauges [WorldClim, Global Historical Climatology Network-Daily (GHCN-D), Global Summary of the Day (GSOD), Global Precipitation Climatology Centre (GPCC), and others], satellites [Climate Prediction Center morphing technique (CMORPH), Gridded Satellite (GridSat), Global Satellite Mapping of Precipitation (GSMaP), and Tropical Rainfall Measuring Mission (TRMM) Multisatellite Precipitation Analysis (TMPA) 3B42RT)], and reanalyses [European Centre for Medium-Range Weather Forecasts (ECMWF) interim reanalysis (ERA-Interim) and Japanese 55-year Reanalysis (JRA-55)]; iv) distributional bias corrections, mainly to improve the P frequency; v) correction of systematic terrestrial P biases using river discharge Q observations from 13,762 stations across the globe; vi) incorporation of daily observations from 76,747 gauges worldwide; and vii) correction for regional differences in gauge reporting times. MSWEP V2 compares substantially better with Stage IV gauge\uffe2\uff80\uff93radar P data than other state-of-the-art P datasets for the United States, demonstrating the effectiveness of the MSWEP V2 methodology. Global comparisons suggest that MSWEP V2 exhibits more realistic spatial patterns in mean, magnitude, and frequency. Long-term mean P estimates for the global, land, and ocean domains based on MSWEP V2 are 955, 781, and 1,025 mm yr\uffe2\uff88\uff921, respectively. Other P datasets consistently underestimate P amounts in mountainous regions. Using MSWEP V2, P was estimated to occur 15.5%, 12.3%, and 16.9% of the time on average for the global, land, and ocean domains, respectively. MSWEP V2 provides unique opportunities to explore spatiotemporal variations in P, improve our understanding of hydrological processes and their parameterization, and enhance hydrological model performance.</p>", "keywords": ["LAND", "SATELLITE-OBSERVATIONS", "EXTREME-PRECIPITATION", "GAUGE OBSERVATIONS", "TROPICAL RAINFALL", "PASSIVE MICROWAVE", "15. Life on land", "01 natural sciences", "6. Clean water", "MODEL", "ERA-INTERIM REANALYSIS", "DATA ASSIMILATION", "13. Climate action", "Earth and Environmental Sciences", "NETWORK", "0105 earth and related environmental sciences"]}, "links": [{"href": "https://journals.ametsoc.org/downloadpdf/journals/bams/100/3/bams-d-17-0138.1.xml"}, {"href": "https://doi.org/10.1175/BAMS-D-17-0138.1"}, {"rel": "related", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main/items/Bulletin%20of%20the%20American%20Meteorological%20Society", "name": "related record", "description": "related record", "type": "application/json"}, {"rel": "self", "type": "application/geo+json", "title": "10.1175/BAMS-D-17-0138.1", "name": "item", "description": "10.1175/BAMS-D-17-0138.1", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main/items/10.1175/BAMS-D-17-0138.1"}, {"rel": "collection", "type": "application/json", "title": "Collection", "name": "collection", "description": "Collection", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main"}], "time": {"date": "2019-03-01T00:00:00Z"}}, {"id": "10.1126/science.aal1727", "type": "Feature", "geometry": null, "properties": {"license": "Open Access", "updated": "2026-05-30T16:19:55Z", "type": "Journal Article", "created": "2017-05-26", "title": "Satellites reveal contrasting responses of regional climate to the widespread greening of Earth", "description": "<p>Increasing terrestrial biomass has important impacts on the climate that affects it.</p>", "keywords": ["Population Density", "Satellite Imagery", "Multidisciplinary", "Time Factors", "Climate", "Climate Change", "Temperature", "Biophysical Phenomena; Climate Change; Population Density; Sunlight; Temperature; Time Factors; Climate; Models", " Theoretical; Plant Physiological Phenomena; Satellite Imagery", "Models", " Theoretical", "15. Life on land", "01 natural sciences", "Biophysical Phenomena", "13. Climate action", "Sunlight", "European Commission", "Plant Physiological Phenomena", "0105 earth and related environmental sciences"]}, "links": [{"href": "https://doi.org/10.1126/science.aal1727"}, {"rel": "related", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main/items/Science", "name": "related record", "description": "related record", "type": "application/json"}, {"rel": "self", "type": "application/geo+json", "title": "10.1126/science.aal1727", "name": "item", "description": "10.1126/science.aal1727", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main/items/10.1126/science.aal1727"}, {"rel": "collection", "type": "application/json", "title": "Collection", "name": "collection", "description": "Collection", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main"}], "time": {"date": "2017-06-16T00:00:00Z"}}, {"id": "10.1126/science.aal4108", "type": "Feature", "geometry": null, "properties": {"updated": "2026-05-30T16:19:55Z", "type": "Journal Article", "created": "2017-07-12", "title": "A Human-Driven Decline In Global Burned Area", "description": "Burn less, baby, burn less           <p>             Humans have, and always have had, a major impact on wildfire activity, which is expected to increase in our warming world. Andela             et al.             use satellite data to show that, unexpectedly, global burned area declined by \uffe2\uff88\uffbc25% over the past 18 years, despite the influence of climate. The decrease has been largest in savannas and grasslands because of agricultural expansion and intensification. The decline of burned area has consequences for predictions of future changes to the atmosphere, vegetation, and the terrestrial carbon sink.           </p>           <p>             Science             , this issue p.             1356           </p>", "keywords": ["[SDE] Environmental Sciences", "Satellite Imagery", "Carbon Sequestration", "Conservation of Natural Resources", "550", "General Science & Technology", "Climate", "Veterinary and Food Sciences", "Fires", "Theoretical", "Models", "11. Sustainability", "Human Activities", "SDG 2 - Zero Hunger", "Ecosystem", "Agricultural", "info:eu-repo/classification/ddc/550", "ddc:550", "Forestry Sciences", "Agriculture", "Models", " Theoretical", "15. Life on land", "Earth sciences", "13. Climate action", "Ecological Applications", "[SDE]Environmental Sciences", "Environmental Sciences"]}, "links": [{"href": "https://escholarship.org/content/qt6v95t473/qt6v95t473.pdf"}, {"href": "https://escholarship.org/content/qt6b42q71s/qt6b42q71s.pdf"}, {"href": "https://doi.org/10.1126/science.aal4108"}, {"rel": "related", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main/items/Science", "name": "related record", "description": "related record", "type": "application/json"}, {"rel": "self", "type": "application/geo+json", "title": "10.1126/science.aal4108", "name": "item", "description": "10.1126/science.aal4108", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main/items/10.1126/science.aal4108"}, {"rel": "collection", "type": "application/json", "title": "Collection", "name": "collection", "description": "Collection", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main"}], "time": {"date": "2017-06-30T00:00:00Z"}}, {"id": "10.1175/bams-d-23-0005.1", "type": "Feature", "geometry": null, "properties": {"updated": "2026-05-30T16:20:05Z", "type": "Journal Article", "created": "2023-08-23", "title": "Observing Mineral Dust in Northern Africa, the Middle East, and Europe: Current Capabilities and Challenges ahead for the Development of Dust Services", "description": "Abstract <p>Mineral dust produced by wind erosion of arid and semiarid surfaces is a major component of atmospheric aerosol that affects climate, weather, ecosystems, and socioeconomic sectors such as human health, transportation, solar energy, and air quality. Understanding these effects and ultimately improving the resilience of affected countries requires a reliable, dense, and diverse set of dust observations, fundamental for the development and the provision of skillful dust-forecast-tailored products. The last decade has seen a notable improvement of dust observational capabilities in terms of considered parameters, geographical coverage, and delivery times, as well as of tailored products of interest to both the scientific community and the various end-users. Given this progress, here we review the current state of observational capabilities, including in situ, ground-based, and satellite remote sensing observations in northern Africa, the Middle East, and Europe for the provision of dust information considering the needs of various users. We also critically discuss observational gaps and related unresolved questions while providing suggestions for overcoming the current limitations. Our review aims to be a milestone for discussing dust observational gaps at a global level to address the needs of users, from research communities to nonscientific stakeholders.</p", "keywords": ["[SDE] Environmental Sciences", "Mineral dusts", "Dust services", "550", "103039 Aerosol physics", "105208 Atmospheric chemistry", "Mineral dust", "Earth system -- environmental sciences", "[SDU] Sciences of the Universe [physics]", "Middle East", "\u00c0rees tem\u00e0tiques de la UPC::Enginyeria agroaliment\u00e0ria::Ci\u00e8ncies de la terra i de la vida::Climatologia i meteorologia", "SDG 3 - Good Health and Well-being", "Simulaci\u00f3 per ordinador", "11. Sustainability", "SDG 13 - Climate Action", "Northern Africa", "103039 Aerosolphysik", "observation capabilities", "current capabilities and challenges", "mineral dust", "info:eu-repo/classification/ddc/550", "Earth radiation", "ddc:550", "health", "15. Life on land", "Remote sensing", "Atmospheric aerosols", "Aerosols/ particulates; In situ atmospheric observations; Remote sensing; Air quality and health", "105208 Atmosph\u00e4renchemie", "Europe", "Earth sciences", "13. Climate action", "103037 Environmental physics", "SDG 3 \u2013 Gesundheit und Wohlergehen", "SDG 13 \u2013 Ma\u00dfnahmen zum Klimaschutz", "In situ atmospheric observations", "Air quality", "dust service", "Aerosols/ particulates", "Dust observation", "Satellite remote sensing observations", "103037 Umweltphysik", "Atmospheric aerosol"]}, "links": [{"href": "https://iris.cnr.it/bitstream/20.500.14243/452880/1/prod_491741-doc_205111.pdf"}, {"href": "https://www.iris.unisa.it/bitstream/11386/4857971/1/bams-BAMS-D-23-0005.1-2.pdf"}, {"href": "https://journals.ametsoc.org/downloadpdf/journals/bams/104/12/BAMS-D-23-0005.1.xml"}, {"href": "https://doi.org/10.1175/bams-d-23-0005.1"}, {"rel": "related", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main/items/Bulletin%20of%20the%20American%20Meteorological%20Society", "name": "related record", "description": "related record", "type": "application/json"}, {"rel": "self", "type": "application/geo+json", "title": "10.1175/bams-d-23-0005.1", "name": "item", "description": "10.1175/bams-d-23-0005.1", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main/items/10.1175/bams-d-23-0005.1"}, {"rel": "collection", "type": "application/json", "title": "Collection", "name": "collection", "description": "Collection", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main"}], "time": {"date": "2023-12-01T00:00:00Z"}}, {"id": "10.1175/bams-d-19-0316.1", "type": "Feature", "geometry": null, "properties": {"updated": "2026-05-30T16:20:05Z", "type": "Journal Article", "created": "2021-04-29", "title": "Closing the water cycle from observations across scales: Where do we stand?", "description": "ABSTRACT<p>Life on Earth vitally depends on the availability of water. Human pressure on freshwater resources is increasing, as is human exposure to weather-related extremes (droughts, storms, floods) caused by climate change. Understanding these changes is pivotal for developing mitigation and adaptation strategies. The Global Climate Observing System (GCOS) defines a suite of essential climate variables (ECVs), many related to the water cycle, required to systematically monitor Earth\uffe2\uff80\uff99s climate system. Since long-term observations of these ECVs are derived from different observation techniques, platforms, instruments, and retrieval algorithms, they often lack the accuracy, completeness, and resolution, to consistently characterize water cycle variability at multiple spatial and temporal scales. Here, we review the capability of ground-based and remotely sensed observations of water cycle ECVs to consistently observe the hydrological cycle. We evaluate the relevant land, atmosphere, and ocean water storages and the fluxes between them, including anthropogenic water use. Particularly, we assess how well they close on multiple temporal and spatial scales. On this basis, we discuss gaps in observation systems and formulate guidelines for future water cycle observation strategies. We conclude that, while long-term water cycle monitoring has greatly advanced in the past, many observational gaps still need to be overcome to close the water budget and enable a comprehensive and consistent assessment across scales. Trends in water cycle components can only be observed with great uncertainty, mainly due to insufficient length and homogeneity. An advanced closure of the water cycle requires improved model\uffe2\uff80\uff93data synthesis capabilities, particularly at regional to local scales.</p>", "keywords": ["550", "Hydrologic cycle", "0207 environmental engineering", "[SDU.STU]Sciences of the Universe [physics]/Earth Sciences", "02 engineering and technology", "/dk/atira/pure/sustainabledevelopmentgoals/clean_water_and_sanitation; name=SDG 6 - Clean Water and Sanitation", "551", "01 natural sciences", "333", "Water masses", "[SDU] Sciences of the Universe [physics]", "storage", "/dk/atira/pure/sustainabledevelopmentgoals/climate_action; name=SDG 13 - Climate Action", "Water budget/balance", "Water budget", "0105 earth and related environmental sciences", "Surface fluxes", "/dk/atira/pure/sustainabledevelopmentgoals/life_below_water; name=SDG 14 - Life Below Water", "Water masses/storage", "balance", "Surface observations", "15. Life on land", "6. Clean water", "Satellite observations", "[SDU]Sciences of the Universe [physics]", "13. Climate action", "[SDU.STU] Sciences of the Universe [physics]/Earth Sciences"]}, "links": [{"href": "https://centaur.reading.ac.uk/98278/1/Dorigo-2021-Closing-the-water-cycle-from-observ.pdf"}, {"href": "https://journals.ametsoc.org/downloadpdf/journals/bams/102/10/BAMS-D-19-0316.1.xml"}, {"href": "https://doi.org/10.1175/bams-d-19-0316.1"}, {"rel": "related", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main/items/Bulletin%20of%20the%20American%20Meteorological%20Society", "name": "related record", "description": "related record", "type": "application/json"}, {"rel": "self", "type": "application/geo+json", "title": "10.1175/bams-d-19-0316.1", "name": "item", "description": "10.1175/bams-d-19-0316.1", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main/items/10.1175/bams-d-19-0316.1"}, {"rel": "collection", "type": "application/json", "title": "Collection", "name": "collection", "description": "Collection", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main"}], "time": {"date": "2021-10-01T00:00:00Z"}}, {"id": "10.1175/jhm-d-18-0256.1", "type": "Feature", "geometry": null, "properties": {"license": "Open Access", "updated": "2026-05-30T16:20:05Z", "type": "Journal Article", "created": "2019-11-11", "title": "Comparison of Rainfall Products over Sub-Saharan Africa", "description": "Abstract<p>An ever-increasing number of rainfall estimates is available. They are used in many important applications such as flood/drought monitoring, water management, or climate monitoring. Such data are especially valuable in sub-Saharan Africa, where rainfall has considerable socioeconomic impacts and the gauge and radar networks are sparse. The choice of a rainfall product can significantly influence the performance of such applications. This study reviews previous works, evaluating or comparing rainfall products over different parts of sub-Saharan Africa. Three types of rainfall products are considered: the gauge-only, the satellite-based, and the reanalysis ones. In addition to the global rainfall products, we included three regional ones specifically developed for Africa: the African Rainfall Climatology version 2 (ARC2), the Rainfall Estimate version 2 (RFE2), and the Tropical Applications of Meteorology Using Satellite Data and Ground-Based Observations (TAMSAT) African Rainfall Climatology and Time Series (TARCAT). The gauge density, the orography, and the rainfall regime, which vary with the climate and the season, influence the performance of the rainfall products. This review does not focus on comparing results, as many other publications doing so are already available. Instead, we propose this review as a guide through the different rainfall products available over Africa, and the factors influencing their performances. With this review, the reader can make informed decisions about which products serve their specific purpose best.</p>", "keywords": ["Rainfall", "13. Climate action", "0207 environmental engineering", "Model comparison", "Surface observations", "02 engineering and technology", "910", "15. Life on land", "01 natural sciences", "6. Clean water", "Satellite observations", "0105 earth and related environmental sciences"], "contacts": [{"organization": "le Coz, C.M.L. (author), van de Giesen, N.C. (author),", "roles": ["creator"]}]}, "links": [{"href": "https://journals.ametsoc.org/downloadpdf/journals/hydr/21/4/jhm-d-18-0256.1.xml"}, {"href": "https://doi.org/10.1175/jhm-d-18-0256.1"}, {"rel": "related", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main/items/Journal%20of%20Hydrometeorology", "name": "related record", "description": "related record", "type": "application/json"}, {"rel": "self", "type": "application/geo+json", "title": "10.1175/jhm-d-18-0256.1", "name": "item", "description": "10.1175/jhm-d-18-0256.1", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main/items/10.1175/jhm-d-18-0256.1"}, {"rel": "collection", "type": "application/json", "title": "Collection", "name": "collection", "description": "Collection", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main"}], "time": {"date": "2020-04-01T00:00:00Z"}}, {"id": "10.1371/journal.pone.0125404", "type": "Feature", "geometry": null, "properties": {"license": "Open Access", "updated": "2026-05-30T16:20:18Z", "type": "Journal Article", "created": "2015-05-06", "title": "The Contribution Of Mangrove Expansion To Salt Marsh Loss On The Texas Gulf Coast", "description": "Landscape-level shifts in plant species distribution and abundance can fundamentally change the ecology of an ecosystem. Such shifts are occurring within mangrove-marsh ecotones, where over the last few decades, relatively mild winters have led to mangrove expansion into areas previously occupied by salt marsh plants. On the Texas (USA) coast of the western Gulf of Mexico, most cases of mangrove expansion have been documented within specific bays or watersheds. Based on this body of relatively small-scale work and broader global patterns of mangrove expansion, we hypothesized that there has been a recent regional-level displacement of salt marshes by mangroves. We classified Landsat-5 Thematic Mapper images using artificial neural networks to quantify black mangrove (Avicennia germinans) expansion and salt marsh (Spartina alterniflora and other grass and forb species) loss over 20 years across the entire Texas coast. Between 1990 and 2010, mangrove area grew by 16.1 km(2), a 74% increase. Concurrently, salt marsh area decreased by 77.8 km(2), a 24% net loss. Only 6% of that loss was attributable to mangrove expansion; most salt marsh was lost due to conversion to tidal flats or water, likely a result of relative sea level rise. Our research confirmed that mangroves are expanding and, in some instances, displacing salt marshes at certain locations. However, this shift is not widespread when analyzed at a larger, regional level. Rather, local, relative sea level rise was indirectly implicated as another important driver causing regional-level salt marsh loss. Climate change is expected to accelerate both sea level rise and mangrove expansion; these mechanisms are likely to interact synergistically and contribute to salt marsh loss.", "keywords": ["Satellite Imagery", "0106 biological sciences", "Science", "Climate Change", "Marshes", "Poaceae", "01 natural sciences", "333", "Image Interpretation", " Computer-Assisted", "11. Sustainability", "14. Life underwater", "Mangrove swamps", "Ecosystem", "0105 earth and related environmental sciences", "Gulf of Mexico", "Artificial neural networks", "Winter", "Q", "R", "15. Life on land", "Texas", "Habitats", "13. Climate action", "Wetlands", "Medicine", "Avicennia", "Seasons", "Research Article"], "contacts": [{"organization": "Armitage, Anna R., Highfield, Wesley E., Brody, Samuel D., Louchouarn, Patrick,", "roles": ["creator"]}]}, "links": [{"href": "https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0125404"}, {"rel": "related", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main/items/PLOS%20ONE", "name": "related record", "description": "related record", "type": "application/json"}, {"rel": "self", "type": "application/geo+json", "title": "10.1371/journal.pone.0125404", "name": "item", "description": "10.1371/journal.pone.0125404", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main/items/10.1371/journal.pone.0125404"}, {"rel": "collection", "type": "application/json", "title": "Collection", "name": "collection", "description": "Collection", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main"}], "time": {"date": "2015-05-06T00:00:00Z"}}, {"id": "10.3390/rs10091495", "type": "Feature", "geometry": null, "properties": {"updated": "2026-05-30T16:21:57Z", "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": "2117/345158", "type": "Feature", "geometry": null, "properties": {"license": "Open Access", "updated": "2026-05-30T16:26:49Z", "type": "Journal Article", "created": "2020-06-22", "title": "ModIs Dust AeroSol (MIDAS): A global fine resolution dust optical depth dataset", "description": "<?xml version='1.0' encoding='UTF-8'?><article><p>Abstract. Monitoring and describing the spatiotemporal variability of dust aerosols is crucial to understand their multiple effects, related feedbacks and impacts within the Earth system. This study describes the development of the MIDAS (ModIs Dust AeroSol) dataset. MIDAS provides columnar daily dust optical depth (DOD at 550\u2009nm) at global scale and fine spatial resolution (0.1\u00b0\u2009\u00d7\u20090.1\u00b0) over a decade (2007\u20132016). This new dataset combines quality filtered satellite aerosol optical depth (AOD) retrievals from MODIS-Aqua at swath level (Collection 6, Level 2), along with DOD-to-AOD ratios provided by MERRA-2 reanalysis to derive DOD on the MODIS native grid. The uncertainties of MODIS AOD and MERRA-2 dust fraction with respect to AERONET and CALIOP, respectively, are taken into account for the estimation of the total DOD uncertainty (including measurement and sampling uncertainties). MERRA-2 dust fractions are in very good agreement with CALIOP column-integrated dust fractions across the dust belt, in the Tropical Atlantic Ocean and the Arabian Sea; the agreement degrades in North America and the Southern Hemisphere where dust sources are smaller. MIDAS, MERRA-2 and CALIOP DODs strongly agree when it comes to annual and seasonal spatial patterns; however, deviations of dust loads' intensity are evident and regionally dependent. Overall, MIDAS is well correlated with ground-truth AERONET-derived DODs (R\u2009=\u20090.882), only showing a small negative bias (\u22120.009 or \u22125.307\u2009%). Among the major dust areas of the planet, the highest R values (up to 0.977) are found at sites of N. Africa, Middle East and Asia. MIDAS expands, complements and upgrades existing observational capabilities of dust aerosols and it is suitable for dust climatological studies, model evaluation and data assimilation.</p></article>", "keywords": ["Dust forecast", ":Enginyeria agroaliment\u00e0ria::Ci\u00e8ncies de la terra i de la vida::Climatologia i meteorologia [\u00c0rees tem\u00e0tiques de la UPC]", "Dust particles", "TA715-787", "Environmental engineering", "TA170-171", "Tropospheric aerosols", "Satellite aerosol optical depth", "16. Peace & justice", "ModIs Dust AeroSol (MIDAS)", "01 natural sciences", "\u00c0rees tem\u00e0tiques de la UPC::Enginyeria agroaliment\u00e0ria::Ci\u00e8ncies de la terra i de la vida::Climatologia i meteorologia", "Earthwork. Foundations", "Conjunts de dades", "13. Climate action", "Stratospheric aerosols", "Dust aerosols", "Data sets", "0105 earth and related environmental sciences"]}, "links": [{"href": "https://amt.copernicus.org/articles/14/309/2021/amt-14-309-2021.pdf"}, {"href": "https://amt.copernicus.org/articles/14/309/2021/amt-14-309-2021-supplement.pdf"}, {"href": "https://doi.org/2117/345158"}, {"rel": "related", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main/items/Atmospheric%20Measurement%20Techniques", "name": "related record", "description": "related record", "type": "application/json"}, {"rel": "self", "type": "application/geo+json", "title": "2117/345158", "name": "item", "description": "2117/345158", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main/items/2117/345158"}, {"rel": "collection", "type": "application/json", "title": "Collection", "name": "collection", "description": "Collection", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main"}], "time": {"date": "2020-06-22T00:00:00Z"}}, {"id": "10.2139/ssrn.5042274", "type": "Feature", "geometry": null, "properties": {"license": "Open Access", "updated": "2026-05-30T16:21:17Z", "type": "Report", "created": "2024-12-09", "title": "Impact of Different Supervised Bare Soil Pixels Retrieval Approaches on Prediction of the Soil Organic Carbon", "description": "This study was to compare the performance of the index-based and unmixing-based classification approaches as well as their integration on discrimination of the bare soil pixels on Sentinel-2 (S2) and Landsat 8-OLI (L08-OLI) single-date scenes from dry and green vegetation within four local agricultural sites, in the Czech Republic. In conclusion, classification of soil cover using the integrated approach led to more accurate extraction of bare soil and higher performance SOC prediction models, on both types of satellite data. Considering all approaches, results obtained on S2 data were more accurate than those delivered on L08-OLI.\u00a0  The manuscript is about to be submitted after the final approval of all authors.", "keywords": ["Linear spectral unmixing", "EJP SOIL", "STEROPES", "Spectral indices", "Soil organic carbon", "Soil cover classification", "Airborne and satellite data"], "contacts": [{"organization": "Khosravi, Vahid, Gholizadeh, Asa, Castaldi, Fabio, Saberioon, Mohammadmehdi, Chapman Agyeman, Prince, \u017d\u00ed\u017eala, Daniel, Kode\u0161ov\u00e1, Radka, Bor\u016fvka, Lubo\u0161,", "roles": ["creator"]}]}, "links": [{"href": "https://doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.5042274"}, {"rel": "self", "type": "application/geo+json", "title": "10.2139/ssrn.5042274", "name": "item", "description": "10.2139/ssrn.5042274", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main/items/10.2139/ssrn.5042274"}, {"rel": "collection", "type": "application/json", "title": "Collection", "name": "collection", "description": "Collection", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main"}], "time": {"date": "2024-01-01T00:00:00Z"}}, {"id": "10.3390/land11060774", "type": "Feature", "geometry": null, "properties": {"license": "Open Access", "updated": "2026-05-30T16:21:52Z", "type": "Journal Article", "created": "2022-05-25", "title": "Investigating Plant Response to Soil Characteristics and Slope Positions in a Small Catchment", "description": "<?xml version='1.0' encoding='UTF-8'?><article><p>Methods enabling stakeholders to receive information on plant stress in agricultural settings in a timely manner can help mitigate a possible decrease in plant productivity. The present work aims to study the soil\u2013plant interaction using field measurements of plant reflectance, soil water content, and selected soil physical and chemical parameters. Particular emphasis was placed on sloping transects. We further compared ground- and Sentinel-2 satellite-based Normalized Vegetation Index (NDVI) time series data in different land use types. The Photochemical Reflectance Index (PRI) and NDVI were measured concurrently with calculating the fraction of absorbed photochemically active radiation (fAPAR) and leaf area index (LAI) values of three vegetation types (a grassland, three vineyard sites, and a cropland with maize). Each land use site had an upper and a lower study point of a given slope. The NDVI, fAPAR, and LAI averaged values were the lowest for the grassland (0.293, 0.197, and 0.51, respectively), which showed the highest signs of water stress. Maize had the highest NDVI values (0.653) among vegetation types. Slope position affected NDVI, PRI, and fAPAR values significantly for the grassland and cropland (p &lt; 0.05), while the soil water content (SWC) was different for all three vineyard sites (p &lt; 0.05). The strongest connections were observed between soil physical and chemical parameters and NDVI values for the vineyard samples and the selected soil parameters and PRI for the grassland. Measured and satellite-retrieved NDVI values of the different land use types were compared, and strong correlations (r = 0.761) between the methods were found. For the maize, the satellite-based NDVI values were higher, while for the grassland they were slightly lower compared to the field-based measurements. Our study indicated that incorporating Sentinel-derived NDVI can greatly improve the value of field monitoring and provides an opportunity to extend field research in more depth. The present study further highlights the close relations in the soil\u2013plant\u2013water system, and continuous monitoring can greatly help in developing site-specific climate change mitigating methods.</p></article>", "keywords": ["2. Zero hunger", "land use sites", "NDVI", "S", "Agriculture", "soil parameters", "04 agricultural and veterinary sciences", "15. Life on land", "spectral reflectance", "satellite imagery", "plant stress", "13. Climate action", "0401 agriculture", " forestry", " and fisheries", "land use sites; soil parameters; plant stress; spectral reflectance; NDVI; satellite imagery"]}, "links": [{"href": "http://www.mdpi.com/2073-445X/11/6/774/pdf"}, {"href": "https://www.mdpi.com/2073-445X/11/6/774/pdf"}, {"href": "https://doi.org/10.3390/land11060774"}, {"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/land11060774", "name": "item", "description": "10.3390/land11060774", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main/items/10.3390/land11060774"}, {"rel": "collection", "type": "application/json", "title": "Collection", "name": "collection", "description": "Collection", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main"}], "time": {"date": "2022-05-25T00:00:00Z"}}, {"id": "10.3390/microorganisms9071380", "type": "Feature", "geometry": null, "properties": {"license": "Open Access", "updated": "2026-05-30T16:21:54Z", "type": "Journal Article", "created": "2021-06-25", "title": "Land-Use Type Drives Soil Population Structures of the Entomopathogenic Fungal Genus Metarhizium", "description": "<?xml version='1.0' encoding='UTF-8'?><article><p>Species of the fungal genus Metarhizium are globally distributed pathogens of arthropods, and a number of biological control products based on these fungi have been commercialized to control a variety of pest arthropods. In this study, we investigate the abundance and population structure of Metarhizium spp. in three land-use types\u2014arable land, grassland, and forest\u2014to provide detailed information on habitat selection and the factors that drive the occurrence and abundance of Metarhizium spp. in soil. At 10 sites of each land-use type, which are all part of the Swiss national soil-monitoring network (NABO), Metarhizium spp. were present at 8, 10, and 4 sites, respectively. On average, Metarhizium spp. were most abundant in grassland, followed by forest and then arable land; 349 Metarhizium isolates were collected from the 30 sites, and sequence analyses of the nuclear translation elongation factor 1\u03b1 gene, as well as microsatellite-based genotyping, revealed the presence of 13 Metarhizium brunneum, 6 Metarhizium robertsii, and 3 Metarhizium guizhouense multilocus genotypes (MLGs). With 259 isolates, M. brunneum was the most abundant species, and significant differences were detected in population structures between forested and unforested sites. Among 15 environmental factors assessed, C:N ratio, basal respiration, total carbon, organic carbon, and bulk density significantly explained the variation among the M. brunneum populations. The information gained in this study will support the selection of best-adapted isolates as biological control agents and will provide additional criteria for the adaptation or development of new pest control strategies.</p></article>", "keywords": ["2. Zero hunger", "0106 biological sciences", "0301 basic medicine", "microsatellite", "QH301-705.5", "abiotic factors", "<i>M. brunneum</i>", "EF-1alpha", "biological control", "15. Life on land", "SSR", "01 natural sciences", "Article", "3. Good health", "<i>M. robertsii</i>", "forest", "03 medical and health sciences", "arable land", "grassland", "Biology (General)", "<i>M. guizhouense</i>"]}, "links": [{"href": "http://www.mdpi.com/2076-2607/9/7/1380/pdf"}, {"href": "https://doi.org/10.3390/microorganisms9071380"}, {"rel": "related", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main/items/Microorganisms", "name": "related record", "description": "related record", "type": "application/json"}, {"rel": "self", "type": "application/geo+json", "title": "10.3390/microorganisms9071380", "name": "item", "description": "10.3390/microorganisms9071380", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main/items/10.3390/microorganisms9071380"}, {"rel": "collection", "type": "application/json", "title": "Collection", "name": "collection", "description": "Collection", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main"}], "time": {"date": "2021-06-25T00:00:00Z"}}, {"id": "10.23986/afsci.148486", "type": "Feature", "geometry": null, "properties": {"license": "Open Access", "updated": "2026-05-30T16:21:25Z", "type": "Journal Article", "created": "2025-05-26", "title": "Defining critical SOC/clay thresholds for soil health in boreal croplands using satellite-based NDVI proxies for productivity and resilience", "description": "<?xml version='1.0' encoding='UTF-8'?><article><p>The European Union\u2019s soil strategy underscores the necessity for establishing feasible criteria to assess the soil health condition. In this study, we developed a method to define a critical threshold value for SOC/clay ratio on the basis of crop productivity and resilience. The study integrated data from national soil monitoring (NSM) of Finnish cropland soils (n=505) with satellite-based normalized difference vegetation index (NDVI) obtained from the EcoDataCube (EDC) portal. The study area was confined to the boreal environmental zone to ensure consistent pedo-climatic conditions. The results show that the interannual variation in crop productivity increases rapidly below SOC/clay ratio of 0.09 (95% confidence intervals ranging from 0.07 to 0.16), whereas the corresponding threshold for mean productivity was 0.13 (0.09\u20130.16). The observed threshold values were found applicable for both cereals and temporary ley. The SOC/clay ratio of 1:13 (=0.08), regarded as a criterion for healthy soil in the current Soil Monitoring Law proposal, based on studies by Johannes et al. (2017) and Prout et al. (2021), is lower than the mean thresholds estimated in this study but aligns close to the lower bound of the 95% confidence intervals. In this research, Finnish agricultural land served as the case study area, but the method is easily applicable to various pedo-climatic regions and potentially to different land use types.</p></article>", "keywords": ["S", "Soil Monitoring Law", " SOC/clay ratio", " cropland", " NDVI", " satellite data", " national soil monitoring", "Agriculture (General)", "Agriculture", "S1-972"], "contacts": [{"organization": "Heikkinen, Jaakko, Keskinen, Riikka, Ylivainio, Kari,", "roles": ["creator"]}]}, "links": [{"href": "https://doi.org/10.23986/afsci.148486"}, {"rel": "related", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main/items/Agricultural%20and%20Food%20Science", "name": "related record", "description": "related record", "type": "application/json"}, {"rel": "self", "type": "application/geo+json", "title": "10.23986/afsci.148486", "name": "item", "description": "10.23986/afsci.148486", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main/items/10.23986/afsci.148486"}, {"rel": "collection", "type": "application/json", "title": "Collection", "name": "collection", "description": "Collection", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main"}], "time": {"date": "2025-05-26T00:00:00Z"}}, {"id": "10.24057/2071-9388-2019-10", "type": "Feature", "geometry": null, "properties": {"license": "Open Access", "updated": "2026-05-30T16:21:25Z", "type": "Journal Article", "created": "2019-11-26", "title": "Simultaneous assessment of the summer urban heat island in Moscow megacity based on in situ observations, thermal satellite images and mesoscale modeling", "description": "<p>This study compares three popular approaches to quantify the urban heat island (UHI) effect in Moscow megacity in a summer season (June-August 2015). The first approach uses the measurements of the near-surface air temperature obtained from weather stations, the second is based on remote sensing from thermal imagery of MODIS satellites, and the third is based on the numerical simulations with the mesoscale atmospheric model COSMO-CLM coupled with the urban canopy scheme TERRA_URB. The first approach allows studying the canopy-layer UHI (CLUHI, or anomaly of a near- surface air temperature), while the second allows studying the surface UHI (SUHI, or anomaly of a land surface temperature), and both types of the UHI could be simulated by the atmospheric model. These approaches were compared in the daytime, evening and nighttime conditions. The results of the study highlight a substantial difference between the SUHI and CLUHI in terms of the diurnal variation and spatial structure. The strongest differences are found at the daytime, at which the SUHI reaches the maximal intensity (up to 10\uffc2\uffb0\uffd0\uffa1) whereas the CLUHI reaches the minimum intensity (1.5\uffc2\uffb0\uffd0\uffa1). However, there is a stronger consistency between CLUHU and SUHI at night, when their intensities converge to 5\uffe2\uff80\uff936\uffc2\uffb0\uffd0\uffa1. In addition, the nighttime CLUHI and SUHI have similar monocentric spatial structure with a temperature maximum in the city center. The presented findings should be taken into account when interpreting and comparing the results of UHI studies, based on the different approaches. The mesoscale model reproduces the CLUHI-SUHI relationships and provides good agreement with in situ observations on the CLUHI spatiotemporal variations (with near-zero biases for daytime and nighttime CLUHI intensity and correlation coefficients more than 0.8 for CLUHI spatial patterns). However, the agreement of the simulated SUHI with the remote sensing data is lower than agreement of the simulated CLUHI with in situ measurements. Specifically, the model tends to overestimate the daytime SUHI intensity. These results indicate a need for further in-depth investigation of the model behavior and SUHI\uffe2\uff80\uff93CLUHI relationships in general.</p>", "keywords": ["modis", "Geography (General)", "COSMO", "suhi", "0207 environmental engineering", "uhi", "land surface temperature", "UHI", "urban heat island", "moscow", "02 engineering and technology", "Moscow", "01 natural sciences", "thermal satellite images", "remote sensing", "MODIS", "13. Climate action", "Earth and Environmental Sciences", "SUHI", "cosmo", "urban climate", "11. Sustainability", "G1-922", "mesoscale modelling", "0105 earth and related environmental sciences"], "contacts": [{"organization": "Varentsov, Mikhail I., Grishchenko, Mikhail Y., Wouters, Hendrik,", "roles": ["creator"]}]}, "links": [{"href": "https://doi.org/10.24057/2071-9388-2019-10"}, {"rel": "related", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main/items/GEOGRAPHY%2C%20ENVIRONMENT%2C%20SUSTAINABILITY", "name": "related record", "description": "related record", "type": "application/json"}, {"rel": "self", "type": "application/geo+json", "title": "10.24057/2071-9388-2019-10", "name": "item", "description": "10.24057/2071-9388-2019-10", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main/items/10.24057/2071-9388-2019-10"}, {"rel": "collection", "type": "application/json", "title": "Collection", "name": "collection", "description": "Collection", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main"}], "time": {"date": "2019-12-31T00:00:00Z"}}, {"id": "10.5194/hess-26-3921-2022", "type": "Feature", "geometry": null, "properties": {"updated": "2026-05-30T16:22:52Z", "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": "2117/345717", "type": "Feature", "geometry": null, "properties": {"license": "Open Access", "updated": "2026-05-30T16:26:49Z", "type": "Journal Article", "created": "2021-05-17", "title": "Estimating lockdown-induced European NO                     2                     changes using satellite and surface observations and air quality models", "description": "<?xml version='1.0' encoding='UTF-8'?><article><p>Abstract. This study provides a comprehensive assessment of NO2 changes across the main European urban areas induced by COVID-19 lockdowns using satellite retrievals from the Tropospheric Monitoring Instrument (TROPOMI) onboard the Sentinel-5p satellite, surface site measurements, and simulations from the Copernicus Atmosphere Monitoring Service (CAMS) regional ensemble of air quality models. Some recent TROPOMI-based estimates of changes in atmospheric NO2 concentrations have neglected the influence of weather variability between the reference and lockdown periods. Here we provide weather-normalized estimates based on a machine learning method (gradient boosting) along with an assessment of the biases that can be expected from methods that omit the influence of weather. We also compare the weather-normalized satellite-estimated NO2 column changes with weather-normalized surface NO2 concentration changes and the CAMS regional ensemble, composed of 11 models, using recently published estimates of emission reductions induced by the lockdown. All estimates show similar NO2 reductions. Locations where the lockdown measures were stricter show stronger reductions, and, conversely, locations where softer measures were implemented show milder reductions in NO2 pollution levels. Average reduction estimates based on either satellite observations (\u221223\u2009%), surface stations (\u221243\u2009%), or models (\u221232\u2009%) are presented, showing the importance of vertical sampling but also the horizontal representativeness. Surface station estimates are significantly changed when sampled to the TROPOMI overpasses (\u221237\u2009%), pointing out the importance of the variability in time of such estimates. Observation-based machine learning estimates show a stronger temporal variability than model-based estimates.</p></article>", "keywords": ["[SDE] Environmental Sciences", "550", "QC1-999", "551", "COVID-19 (Malaltia)", "01 natural sciences", "COVID-19 (Malaltia) -- Aspectes ambientals", "COVID-19 (Disease)", "Lockdown", "11. Sustainability", "Satellite images", "QD1-999", "0105 earth and related environmental sciences", "info:eu-repo/classification/ddc/550", "Air quality models", "Physics", "Aire -- Qualitat", "COVID-19", "Surface observations", "Satellite observations", "Chemistry", "Meteorology and Atmospheric Sciences", "13. Climate action", "[SDE]Environmental Sciences", "Air quality", "Meteorologi och atmosf\u00e4rsvetenskap", "\u00c0rees tem\u00e0tiques de la UPC::Desenvolupament hum\u00e0 i sostenible::Degradaci\u00f3 ambiental::Contaminaci\u00f3 atmosf\u00e8rica", ":Desenvolupament hum\u00e0 i sostenible::Degradaci\u00f3 ambiental::Contaminaci\u00f3 atmosf\u00e8rica [\u00c0rees tem\u00e0tiques de la UPC]"]}, "links": [{"href": "https://doi.org/2117/345717"}, {"rel": "related", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main/items/Atmospheric%20Chemistry%20and%20Physics", "name": "related record", "description": "related record", "type": "application/json"}, {"rel": "self", "type": "application/geo+json", "title": "2117/345717", "name": "item", "description": "2117/345717", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main/items/2117/345717"}, {"rel": "collection", "type": "application/json", "title": "Collection", "name": "collection", "description": "Collection", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main"}], "time": {"date": "2021-05-17T00:00:00Z"}}, {"id": "10.3390/rs9111155", "type": "Feature", "geometry": null, "properties": {"updated": "2026-05-30T16:22:00Z", "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. Life underwater", "Moisture", "0105 earth and related environmental sciences", "Soil science", "Water content", "Radar", "Geography", "soil moisture and ocean salinity satellite (SMOS); DISPATCH; radar; Sentinel-1; disaggregation; soil moisture", "Soilmoisture and ocean salinity satellite (SMOS)", "Synthetic Aperture Radar Interferometry", "Q", "FOS: Environmental engineering", "Geology", "FOS: Earth and related environmental sciences", "Remote sensing", "Remote Sensing of Soil Moisture", "Surface Deformation Monitoring", "Computer science", "Earth and Planetary Sciences", "Groundwater Extraction", "Geotechnical engineering", "[SDU]Sciences of the Universe [physics]", "disaggregation", "Environmental Science", "Physical Sciences", "Sentinel-1", "soil moisture", "radar"]}, "links": [{"href": "http://www.mdpi.com/2072-4292/9/11/1155/pdf"}, {"href": "https://doi.org/10.3390/rs9111155"}, {"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/rs9111155", "name": "item", "description": "10.3390/rs9111155", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main/items/10.3390/rs9111155"}, {"rel": "collection", "type": "application/json", "title": "Collection", "name": "collection", "description": "Collection", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main"}], "time": {"date": "2017-11-10T00:00:00Z"}}, {"id": "10.3390/ijgi10020102", "type": "Feature", "geometry": null, "properties": {"updated": "2026-05-30T16:21:51Z", "type": "Journal Article", "created": "2021-02-23", "title": "Machine Learning-Based Processing Proof-of-Concept Pipeline for Semi-Automatic Sentinel-2 Imagery Download, Cloudiness Filtering, Classifications, and Updates of Open Land Use/Land Cover Datasets", "description": "<?xml version='1.0' encoding='UTF-8'?><article><p>Land use and land cover are continuously changing in today\u2019s world. Both domains, therefore, have to rely on updates of external information sources from which the relevant land use/land cover (classification) is extracted. Satellite images are frequent candidates due to their temporal and spatial resolution. On the contrary, the extraction of relevant land use/land cover information is demanding in terms of knowledge base and time. The presented approach offers a proof-of-concept machine-learning pipeline that takes care of the entire complex process in the following manner. The relevant Sentinel-2 images are obtained through the pipeline. Later, cloud masking is performed, including the linear interpolation of merged-feature time frames. Subsequently, four-dimensional arrays are created with all potential training data to become a basis for estimators from the scikit-learn library; the LightGBM estimator is then used. Finally, the classified content is applied to the open land use and open land cover databases. The verification of the provided experiment was conducted against detailed cadastral data, to which Shannon\u2019s entropy was applied since the number of cadaster information classes was naturally consistent. The experiment showed a good overall accuracy (OA) of 85.9%. It yielded a classified land use/land cover map of the study area consisting of 7188 km2 in the southern part of the South Moravian Region in the Czech Republic. The developed proof-of-concept machine-learning pipeline is replicable to any other area of interest so far as the requirements for input data are met.</p></article>", "keywords": ["Geography (General)", "0211 other engineering and technologies", "land use", "cloud masking", "04 agricultural and veterinary sciences", "02 engineering and technology", "15. Life on land", "satellite imagery", "machine learning", "land cover", "Sentinel 2", "machine learning; land use; land cover; satellite imagery; Sentinel 2; image classification; cloud masking; LightGBM estimator", "G1-922", "0401 agriculture", " forestry", " and fisheries", "LightGBM estimator", "image classification"]}, "links": [{"href": "http://www.mdpi.com/2220-9964/10/2/102/pdf"}, {"href": "https://www.mdpi.com/2220-9964/10/2/102/pdf"}, {"href": "https://doi.org/10.3390/ijgi10020102"}, {"rel": "related", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main/items/ISPRS%20International%20Journal%20of%20Geo-Information", "name": "related record", "description": "related record", "type": "application/json"}, {"rel": "self", "type": "application/geo+json", "title": "10.3390/ijgi10020102", "name": "item", "description": "10.3390/ijgi10020102", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main/items/10.3390/ijgi10020102"}, {"rel": "collection", "type": "application/json", "title": "Collection", "name": "collection", "description": "Collection", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main"}], "time": {"date": "2021-02-23T00:00:00Z"}}, {"id": "10.3390/rs11212557", "type": "Feature", "geometry": null, "properties": {"license": "Open Access", "updated": "2026-05-30T16:21:58Z", "type": "Journal Article", "created": "2019-10-31", "title": "Correcting Position Error in Precipitation Data Using Image Morphing", "description": "<p>Rainfall estimates based on satellite data are subject to errors in the position of the rainfall events in addition to errors in their intensity. This is especially true for localized rainfall events such as the convective rainstorms that occur during the monsoon season in sub-Saharan Africa. Many satellite-based estimates use gauge information for bias correction. However, bias adjustment methods do not correct the position errors explicitly. We propose to gauge-adjust satellite-based estimates with respect to the position using a morphing method. Image morphing transforms an image, in our case a rainfall field, into another one, by applying a spatial transformation. A benefit of this approach is that it can take both the position and the intensity of a rain event into account. Its potential is investigated with two case studies. In the first case, the rain events are synthetic, represented by elliptic shapes, while the second case uses real data from a rainfall event occurring during the monsoon season in southern Ghana. In the second case, the satellite-based estimate IMERG-Late (Integrated Multi-Satellite Retrievals for GPM ) is adjusted to gauge data from the Trans-African Hydro-Meteorological Observatory (TAHMO) network. The results show that the position errors can be corrected, while preserving the higher spatial variability of the satellite-based estimate.</p>", "keywords": ["Morphing", "Satellite-based precipitation", "550", "Gauge data", "imerg", "Science", "Q", "tahmo", "Precipitation estimation", "morphing", "satellite-based precipitation", "01 natural sciences", "field displacement", "13. Climate action", "gauge data", "TAHMO", "IMERG", "precipitation estimation", "Field displacement", "0105 earth and related environmental sciences"]}, "links": [{"href": "http://www.mdpi.com/2072-4292/11/21/2557/pdf"}, {"href": "https://www.mdpi.com/2072-4292/11/21/2557/pdf"}, {"href": "https://doi.org/10.3390/rs11212557"}, {"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/rs11212557", "name": "item", "description": "10.3390/rs11212557", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main/items/10.3390/rs11212557"}, {"rel": "collection", "type": "application/json", "title": "Collection", "name": "collection", "description": "Collection", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main"}], "time": {"date": "2019-10-31T00:00:00Z"}}, {"id": "10.5281/zenodo.8085685", "type": "Feature", "geometry": null, "properties": {"license": "Open Access", "updated": "2026-05-30T16:24:49Z", "type": "Journal Article", "created": "2021-02-23", "title": "Machine Learning-Based Processing Proof-of-Concept Pipeline for Semi-Automatic Sentinel-2 Imagery Download, Cloudiness Filtering, Classifications, and Updates of Open Land Use/Land Cover Datasets", "description": "<?xml version='1.0' encoding='UTF-8'?><article><p>Land use and land cover are continuously changing in today\u2019s world. Both domains, therefore, have to rely on updates of external information sources from which the relevant land use/land cover (classification) is extracted. Satellite images are frequent candidates due to their temporal and spatial resolution. On the contrary, the extraction of relevant land use/land cover information is demanding in terms of knowledge base and time. The presented approach offers a proof-of-concept machine-learning pipeline that takes care of the entire complex process in the following manner. The relevant Sentinel-2 images are obtained through the pipeline. Later, cloud masking is performed, including the linear interpolation of merged-feature time frames. Subsequently, four-dimensional arrays are created with all potential training data to become a basis for estimators from the scikit-learn library; the LightGBM estimator is then used. Finally, the classified content is applied to the open land use and open land cover databases. The verification of the provided experiment was conducted against detailed cadastral data, to which Shannon\u2019s entropy was applied since the number of cadaster information classes was naturally consistent. The experiment showed a good overall accuracy (OA) of 85.9%. It yielded a classified land use/land cover map of the study area consisting of 7188 km2 in the southern part of the South Moravian Region in the Czech Republic. The developed proof-of-concept machine-learning pipeline is replicable to any other area of interest so far as the requirements for input data are met.</p></article>", "keywords": ["Geography (General)", "0211 other engineering and technologies", "land use", "cloud masking", "04 agricultural and veterinary sciences", "02 engineering and technology", "15. Life on land", "satellite imagery", "machine learning", "land cover", "Sentinel 2", "machine learning; land use; land cover; satellite imagery; Sentinel 2; image classification; cloud masking; LightGBM estimator", "G1-922", "0401 agriculture", " forestry", " and fisheries", "LightGBM estimator", "image classification"]}, "links": [{"href": "http://www.mdpi.com/2220-9964/10/2/102/pdf"}, {"href": "https://www.mdpi.com/2220-9964/10/2/102/pdf"}, {"href": "https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.8085685"}, {"rel": "related", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main/items/ISPRS%20International%20Journal%20of%20Geo-Information", "name": "related record", "description": "related record", "type": "application/json"}, {"rel": "self", "type": "application/geo+json", "title": "10.5281/zenodo.8085685", "name": "item", "description": "10.5281/zenodo.8085685", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main/items/10.5281/zenodo.8085685"}, {"rel": "collection", "type": "application/json", "title": "Collection", "name": "collection", "description": "Collection", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main"}], "time": {"date": "2021-02-23T00:00:00Z"}}, {"id": "10.3390/rs12121917", "type": "Feature", "geometry": null, "properties": {"license": "Open Access", "updated": "2026-05-30T16:21:58Z", "type": "Journal Article", "created": "2020-06-15", "title": "Prediction of Yield Productivity Zones from Landsat 8 and Sentinel-2A/B and Their Evaluation Using Farm Machinery Measurements", "description": "<?xml version='1.0' encoding='UTF-8'?><article><p>Yield is one of the primary concerns for any farmer since it is a key to economic prosperity. Yield productivity zones\u2014that is to say, areas with the same yield level within fields over the long-term\u2014are a form of derived (predicted) data from periodic remote sensing, in this study according to the Enhanced Vegetation Index (EVI). The delineation of yield productivity zones can (a) increase economic prosperity and (b) reduce the environmental burden by employing site-specific crop management practices which implement advanced geospatial technologies that respect soil heterogeneity. This paper presents yield productivity zone identification and computing based on Sentinel-2A/B and Landsat 8 multispectral satellite data and also quantifies the success rate of yield prediction in comparison to the measured yield data. Yield data on spring barley, winter wheat, corn, and oilseed rape were measured with a spatial resolution of up to several meters directly by a CASE IH harvester in the field. The yield data were available from three plots in three years on the Rost\u011bnice Farm in the Czech Republic, with an overall acreage of 176 hectares. The presented yield productivity zones concept was found to be credible for the prediction of yield, including its geospatial variations.</p></article>", "keywords": ["2. Zero hunger", "yield productivity zones", "precision agriculture", "Science", "Q", "Enhanced Vegetation Index", "04 agricultural and veterinary sciences", "yield productivity zones; yield measurements; satellite images; precision agriculture; Enhanced Vegetation Index", "15. Life on land", "01 natural sciences", "yield measurements", "0401 agriculture", " forestry", " and fisheries", "satellite images", "0105 earth and related environmental sciences"]}, "links": [{"href": "http://www.mdpi.com/2072-4292/12/12/1917/pdf"}, {"href": "https://www.mdpi.com/2072-4292/12/12/1917/pdf"}, {"href": "https://doi.org/10.3390/rs12121917"}, {"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/rs12121917", "name": "item", "description": "10.3390/rs12121917", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main/items/10.3390/rs12121917"}, {"rel": "collection", "type": "application/json", "title": "Collection", "name": "collection", "description": "Collection", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main"}], "time": {"date": "2020-06-13T00:00:00Z"}}, {"id": "10.3390/rs14122917", "type": "Feature", "geometry": null, "properties": {"updated": "2026-05-30T16:22:00Z", "type": "Journal Article", "created": "2022-06-20", "title": "Satellite Imagery to Map Topsoil Organic Carbon Content over Cultivated Areas: An Overview", "description": "<?xml version='1.0' encoding='UTF-8'?><article><p>There is a need to update soil maps and monitor soil organic carbon (SOC) in the upper horizons or plough layer for enabling decision support and land management, while complying with several policies, especially those favoring soil carbon storage. This review paper is dedicated to the satellite-based spectral approaches for SOC assessment that have been achieved from several satellite sensors, study scales and geographical contexts in the past decade. Most approaches relying on pure spectral models have been carried out since 2019 and have dealt with temperate croplands in Europe, China and North America at the scale of small regions, of some hundreds of km2: dry combustion and wet oxidation were the analytical determination methods used for 50% and 35% of the satellite-derived SOC studies, for which measured topsoil SOC contents mainly referred to mineral soils, typically cambisols and luvisols and to a lesser extent, regosols, leptosols, stagnosols and chernozems, with annual cropping systems with a SOC value of ~15 g\u00b7kg\u22121 and a range of 30 g\u00b7kg\u22121 in median. Most satellite-derived SOC spectral prediction models used limited preprocessing and were based on bare soil pixel retrieval after Normalized Difference Vegetation Index (NDVI) thresholding. About one third of these models used partial least squares regression (PLSR), while another third used random forest (RF), and the remaining included machine learning methods such as support vector machine (SVM). We did not find any studies either on deep learning methods or on all-performance evaluations and uncertainty analysis of spatial model predictions. Nevertheless, the literature examined here identifies satellite-based spectral information, especially derived under bare soil conditions, as an interesting approach that deserves further investigations. Future research includes considering the simultaneous analysis of imagery acquired at several dates i.e., temporal mosaicking, testing the influence of possible disturbing factors and mitigating their effects fusing mixed models incorporating non-spectral ancillary information.</p></article>", "keywords": ["2. Zero hunger", "550", "Science", "Q", "[SDU.STU]Sciences of the Universe [physics]/Earth Sciences", "Environmental Sciences (social aspects to be 507)", "Geology", "04 agricultural and veterinary sciences", "[SDV.SA.SDS]Life Sciences [q-bio]/Agricultural sciences/Soil study", "910", "15. Life on land", "satellite imagery", "630", "Remote Sensing", "soil organic carbon", "13. Climate action", "0401 agriculture", " forestry", " and fisheries", "spectral models"]}, "links": [{"href": "https://iris.cnr.it/bitstream/20.500.14243/532033/1/remotesensing-steropes%20review.pdf"}, {"href": "https://www.mdpi.com/2072-4292/14/12/2917/pdf"}, {"href": "https://pub.epsilon.slu.se/28706/1/vaoudour-e-et-al-220809.pdf"}, {"href": "https://doi.org/10.3390/rs14122917"}, {"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/rs14122917", "name": "item", "description": "10.3390/rs14122917", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main/items/10.3390/rs14122917"}, {"rel": "collection", "type": "application/json", "title": "Collection", "name": "collection", "description": "Collection", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main"}], "time": {"date": "2022-06-18T00:00:00Z"}}, {"id": "10.3390/rs16081324", "type": "Feature", "geometry": null, "properties": {"updated": "2026-05-30T16:22:00Z", "type": "Journal Article", "created": "2024-04-10", "title": "Advancements in Remote Sensing Imagery Applications for Precision Management in Olive Growing: A Systematic Review", "description": "<?xml version='1.0' encoding='UTF-8'?><article><p>This systematic review explores the role of remote sensing technology in addressing the requirements of sustainable olive growing, set against the backdrop of growing global food demands and contemporary environmental constraints in agriculture. The critical analysis presented in this document assesses different remote sensing platforms (satellites, manned aircraft vehicles, unmanned aerial vehicles and terrestrial equipment) and sensors (RGB, multispectral, thermal, hyperspectral and LiDAR), emphasizing their strategic selection based on specific study aims and geographical scales. Focusing on olive growing, particularly prominent in the Mediterranean region, this article analyzes the diverse applications of remote sensing, including the management of inventory and irrigation; detection/monitoring of diseases and phenology; and estimation of crucial parameters regarding biophysical parameters, water stress indicators, crop evapotranspiration and yield. Through a global perspective and insights from studies conducted in diverse olive-growing regions, this review underscores the potential benefits of remote sensing in shaping and improving sustainable agricultural practices, mitigating environmental impacts and ensuring the economic viability of olive trees.</p></article>", "keywords": ["RGB", "2. Zero hunger", "multispectral", "Science", "Q", "0211 other engineering and technologies", "04 agricultural and veterinary sciences", "02 engineering and technology", "15. Life on land", "satellite imagery", "manned aircraft vehicles", "12. Responsible consumption", "hyperspectral", "0401 agriculture", " forestry", " and fisheries", "unmanned aerial vehicles"]}, "links": [{"href": "https://www.mdpi.com/2072-4292/16/8/1324/pdf"}, {"href": "https://doi.org/10.3390/rs16081324"}, {"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/rs16081324", "name": "item", "description": "10.3390/rs16081324", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main/items/10.3390/rs16081324"}, {"rel": "collection", "type": "application/json", "title": "Collection", "name": "collection", "description": "Collection", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main"}], "time": {"date": "2024-04-09T00:00:00Z"}}, {"id": "10.3390/su14052732", "type": "Feature", "geometry": null, "properties": {"license": "Open Access", "updated": "2026-05-30T16:22:03Z", "type": "Journal Article", "created": "2022-02-28", "title": "Progress in Developing Scale-Able Approaches to Field-Scale Water Accounting Based on Remote Sensing", "description": "<p>To increase water productivity and assess water footprints in irrigated systems, there is a need to develop cheap and readily available estimates of components of water balance at fine spatial scales. Recent developments in satellite remote sensing platforms and modelling capacities have opened opportunities to address this need, such as those being developed in the WaterSENSE project. This paper showed how evapotranspiration, soil moisture, and farm-dam water volumes can be quantified based on the Copernicus data from the Sentinel satellite constellation. This highlights distinct differences between energy balance and crop factor approaches and estimates that can be derived from the point scale to the landscape scale. Differences in the results are related to assumptions in deriving evapotranspiration from remote sensing data. Advances in different parts of the water cycle and opportunities for crop detection and yield forecasting mean that crop water productivity can be quantified at field to landscape scales, but uncertainties are highly dependent on input data availability and reference validation data.</p>", "keywords": ["13. Climate action", "water use efficiency; Copernicus satellite data; irrigated agriculture", "15. Life on land", "01 natural sciences", "6. Clean water", "0105 earth and related environmental sciences"]}, "links": [{"href": "http://www.mdpi.com/2071-1050/14/5/2732/pdf"}, {"href": "https://www.mdpi.com/2071-1050/14/5/2732/pdf"}, {"href": "https://doi.org/10.3390/su14052732"}, {"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/su14052732", "name": "item", "description": "10.3390/su14052732", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main/items/10.3390/su14052732"}, {"rel": "collection", "type": "application/json", "title": "Collection", "name": "collection", "description": "Collection", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main"}], "time": {"date": "2022-02-25T00:00:00Z"}}, {"id": "10.5061/dryad.8382j4r", "type": "Feature", "geometry": null, "properties": {"license": "unspecified", "updated": "2026-05-30T16:22:24Z", "type": "Dataset", "title": "Data from: Spatial variation and linkages of soil and vegetation in the Siberian Arctic tundra \u2013 coupling field observations with remote sensing data", "description": "unspecifiedPlant, soil and remote  sensing attributes of a Siberian Arctic sitePlant and soil data of  study plots were collected in the field in summer 2014. NDVI and  topographical attributes were later extracted from three satellite images,  portraying the field site and vegetation in three different years at 180,  220 and 750 DD (growing degree days with 0 C threshold). Plant species  presence (1 in data) and absence (0 in data) in study plots is available  for dicotyledonous vascular plants. Land cover types are based on  ground-based visual judgement.Mikola et al.  2018_Biogeosciences.xlsx", "keywords": ["Vascular plant", "Satellite image", "soil temperature", "reflectance", "Permafrost", "spatial variation", "Spatial extrapolation", "Salix", "15. Life on land", "Betula nana", "moss", "Ecosystem carbon exchange", "LAI", "Sphagnum", "Carex", "Eriophorum", "13. Climate action", "Land cover type"], "contacts": [{"organization": "Mikola, Juha, Virtanen, Tarmo, Linkosalmi, Maiju, V\u00e4h\u00e4, Emmi, Nyman, Johanna, Postanogova, Olga, R\u00e4s\u00e4nen, Aleksi, Kotze, D. Johan, Laurila, Tuomas, Juutinen, Sari, Kondratyev, Vladimir, Aurela, Mika,", "roles": ["creator"]}]}, "links": [{"href": "https://doi.org/10.5061/dryad.8382j4r"}, {"rel": "self", "type": "application/geo+json", "title": "10.5061/dryad.8382j4r", "name": "item", "description": "10.5061/dryad.8382j4r", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main/items/10.5061/dryad.8382j4r"}, {"rel": "collection", "type": "application/json", "title": "Collection", "name": "collection", "description": "Collection", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main"}], "time": {"date": "2019-05-04T00:00:00Z"}}, {"id": "10.5194/essd-12-753-2020", "type": "Feature", "geometry": null, "properties": {"license": "Open Access", "updated": "2026-05-30T16:22:46Z", "type": "Journal Article", "created": "2019-10-07", "title": "A pan-African high-resolution drought index dataset", "description": "<p>Abstract. Droughts in Africa cause severe problems such as crop failure, food shortages, famine, epidemics and even mass migration. To minimize the effects of drought on water and food security over Africa, a high-resolution drought dataset is essential to establish robust drought hazard probabilities and to assess drought vulnerability considering a multi- and cross-sectorial perspective that includes crops, hydrological systems, rangeland, and environmental systems. Such assessments are essential for policy makers, their advisors, and other stakeholders to respond to the pressing humanitarian issues caused by these environmental hazards. In this study, a high spatial resolution Standardized Precipitation-Evapotranspiration Index (SPEI) drought dataset is presented to support these assessments. We compute historical SPEI data based on Climate Hazards group InfraRed Precipitation with Station data (CHIRPS) precipitation estimates and Global Land Evaporation Amsterdam Model (GLEAM) potential evaporation estimates. The high resolution SPEI dataset (SPEI-HR) presented here spans from 1981 to 2016 (36 years) with 5\uffe2\uff80\uff89km spatial resolution over the whole Africa. To facilitate the diagnosis of droughts of different durations, accumulation periods from 1 to 48 months are provided. The quality of the resulting dataset was compared with coarse-resolution SPEI based on Climatic Research Unit (CRU) Time-Series (TS) datasets, and Normalized Difference Vegetation Index (NDVI) calculated from the Global Inventory Monitoring and Modeling System (GIMMS) project, as well as with root zone soil moisture modelled by GLEAM. Agreement found between coarse resolution SPEI from CRU TS (SPEI-CRU) and the developed SPEI-HR provides confidence in the estimation of temporal and spatial variability of droughts in Africa with SPEI-HR. In addition, agreement of SPEI-HR versus NDVI and root zone soil moisture \uffe2\uff80\uff93 with average correlation coefficient (R) of 0.54 and 0.77, respectively \uffe2\uff80\uff93 further implies that SPEI-HR can provide valuable information to study drought-related processes and societal impacts at sub-basin and district scales in Africa. The dataset is archived in Centre for Environmental Data Analysis (CEDA) with link: https://doi.org/10.5285/bbdfd09a04304158b366777eba0d2aeb (Peng et al., 2019a)                         </p>", "keywords": ["CALIFORNIA DROUGHT", "IMPACTS", "2. Zero hunger", "QE1-996.5", "EVAPOTRANSPIRATION", "GLOBAL ASSESSMENT", "WATER-RESOURCES", "DATA PRODUCTS", "0207 environmental engineering", "1. No poverty", "Geology", "02 engineering and technology", "15. Life on land", "01 natural sciences", "6. Clean water", "Environmental sciences", "PRECIPITATION CLIMATOLOGY CENTER", "DATA SETS", "13. Climate action", "Earth and Environmental Sciences", "GREATER HORN", "11. Sustainability", "GE1-350", "SATELLITE", "0105 earth and related environmental sciences"]}, "links": [{"href": "https://essd.copernicus.org/articles/12/753/2020/essd-12-753-2020.pdf"}, {"href": "https://doi.org/10.5194/essd-12-753-2020"}, {"rel": "related", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main/items/Earth%20System%20Science%20Data", "name": "related record", "description": "related record", "type": "application/json"}, {"rel": "self", "type": "application/geo+json", "title": "10.5194/essd-12-753-2020", "name": "item", "description": "10.5194/essd-12-753-2020", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main/items/10.5194/essd-12-753-2020"}, {"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": "10.5194/essd-13-3707-2021", "type": "Feature", "geometry": null, "properties": {"updated": "2026-05-30T16:22:47Z", "type": "Journal Article", "created": "2021-01-07", "title": "C-band radar data and in situ measurements for the monitoring of wheat crops in a semi-arid area (center of Morocco)", "description": "<p>Abstract. A better understanding of the hydrological functioning of irrigated crops using remote sensing observations is of prime importance in the semi-arid areas where the water resources are limited. Radar observations, available at high resolution and revisit time since the launch of Sentinel-1 in 2014, have shown great potential for the monitoring of the water content of the upper soil and of the canopy. In this paper, a complete set of data for radar signal analysis is shared to the scientific community for the first time to our knowledge. The data set is composed of Sentinel-1 products and in situ measurements of soil and vegetation variables collected during three agricultural seasons over drip-irrigated winter wheat in the Haouz plain in Morocco. The in situ data gathers soil measurements (time series of half-hourly surface soil moisture, surface roughness and agricultural practices) and vegetation measurements collected every week/two weeks including above-ground fresh and dry biomasses, vegetation water content based on destructive measurements, cover fraction, leaf area index and plant height. Radar data are the backscattering coefficient and the interferometric coherence derived from Sentinel-1 GRDH (Ground Range Detected High resolution) and SLC (Single Look Complex) products, respectively. The normalized difference vegetation index derived from Sentinel-2 data based on Level-2A (surface reflectance and cloud mask) atmospheric effects-corrected products is also provided. This database, which is the first of its kind made available in open access, is described here comprehensively in order to help the scientific community to evaluate and to develop new or existing remote sensing algorithms for monitoring wheat canopy under semi-arid conditions. The data set is particularly relevant for the development of radar applications including surface soil moisture and vegetation parameters retrieval using either physically based or empirical approaches such as machine and deep learning algorithms. The database is archived in the DataSuds repository and is freely-accessible via the DOI:  https://doi.org/10.23708/8D6WQC  (Ouaadi et al., 2020a).                         </p>", "keywords": ["550", "Arid", "Soil Moisture", "0211 other engineering and technologies", "FOS: Mechanical engineering", "02 engineering and technology", "Digital Soil Mapping Techniques", "Normalized Difference Vegetation Index", "630", "Agricultural and Biological Sciences", "Engineering", "Pathology", "GE1-350", "2. Zero hunger", "QE1-996.5", "Vegetation Monitoring", "Water content", "Ecology", "Geography", "Statistics", "Life Sciences", "Hydrology (agriculture)", "Geology", "Remote Sensing in Vegetation Monitoring and Phenology", "04 agricultural and veterinary sciences", "Remote sensing", "Soil Erosion and Agricultural Sustainability", "6. 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Framed within the Copernicus Climate Change Service (C3S) of the European Commission, the European Centre for Medium-Range Weather Forecasts (ECMWF) is producing an enhanced global dataset for the land component of the fifth generation of European ReAnalysis (ERA5), hereafter referred to as ERA5-Land. Once completed, the period covered will span from 1950 to the present, with continuous updates to support land monitoring applications. ERA5-Land describes the evolution of the water and energy cycles over land in a consistent manner over the production period, which, among others, could be used to analyse trends and anomalies. This is achieved through global high-resolution numerical integrations of the ECMWF land surface model driven by the downscaled meteorological forcing from the ERA5 climate reanalysis, including an elevation correction for the thermodynamic near-surface state. ERA5-Land shares with ERA5 most of the parameterizations that guarantees the use of the state-of-the-art land surface modelling applied to numerical weather prediction (NWP) models. A main advantage of ERA5-Land compared to ERA5 and the older ERA-Interim is the horizontal resolution, which is enhanced globally to 9\uffe2\uff80\uff89km compared to 31\uffe2\uff80\uff89km (ERA5) or 80\uffe2\uff80\uff89km (ERA-Interim), whereas the temporal resolution is hourly as in ERA5. Evaluation against independent in situ observations and global model or satellite-based reference datasets shows the added value of ERA5-Land in the description of the hydrological cycle, in particular with enhanced soil moisture and lake description, and an overall better agreement of river discharge estimations with available observations. However, ERA5-Land snow depth fields present a mixed performance when compared to those of ERA5, depending on geographical location and altitude. The description of the energy cycle shows comparable results with ERA5. Nevertheless, ERA5-Land reduces the global averaged root mean square error of the skin temperature, taking as reference MODIS data, mainly due to the contribution of coastal points where spatial resolution is important. Since January\uffc2\uffa02020, the ERA5-Land period available has extended from January\uffc2\uffa01981 to the near present, with a 2- to 3-month delay with respect to real time. The segment prior to 1981 is in production, aiming for a release of the whole dataset in summer/autumn\uffc2\uffa02021. The high spatial and temporal resolution of ERA5-Land, its extended period, and the consistency of the fields produced makes it a valuable dataset to support hydrological studies, to initialize NWP and climate models, and to support diverse applications dealing with water resource, land, and environmental management. The full ERA5-Land hourly (Mu\uffc3\uffb1oz-Sabater,\uffc2\uffa02019a) and monthly (Mu\uffc3\uffb1oz-Sabater,\uffc2\uffa02019b) averaged datasets presented in this paper are available through the C3S Climate Data Store at https://doi.org/10.24381/cds.e2161bac and https://doi.org/10.24381/cds.68d2bb30, respectively.                     </p>", "keywords": ["QE1-996.5", "550", "IN-SITU", "LEAF-AREA", "[SDU.STU]Sciences of the Universe [physics]/Earth Sciences", "Geology", "OPERATIONAL IMPLEMENTATION", "15. Life on land", "551", "SOIL-MOISTURE", "SURFACE-TEMPERATURE", "01 natural sciences", "LAKE PARAMETERIZATION", "[SDU] Sciences of the Universe [physics]", "Environmental sciences", "[SDU]Sciences of the Universe [physics]", "13. 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