Satellite Soil Moisture Retrieval: Techniques and Applications

Satellite Soil Moisture Retrieval: Techniques and Applications offers readers a better understanding of the scientific underpinnings, development, and application of soil moisture retrieval techniques and their applications for environmental modeling and management, bringing together a collection of recent developments and rigorous applications of soil moisture retrieval techniques from optical and infrared datasets, such as the universal triangle method, vegetation indices based approaches, empirical models, and microwave techniques, particularly by utilizing earth observation datasets such as IRS III, MODIS, Landsat7, Landsat8, SMOS, AMSR-e, AMSR2 and the upcoming SMAP. Through its coverage of a wide variety of soil moisture retrieval applications, including drought, flood, irrigation scheduling, weather forecasting, climate change, precipitation forecasting, and several others, this is the first book to promote synergistic and multidisciplinary activities among scientists and users working in the hydrometeorological sciences. Demystifies soil moisture retrieval and predictionLinks soil moisture retrieval techniques with new satellite missions for earth and environmental science oriented problemsWritten to be accessible to a wider range of professionals with a common interest in geo-spatial techniques, remote sensing, sustainable water resource development, and earth and environmental issues INDICE: Section I: Introduction 1. An overview of the state of the art in the retrievals of SM from EO 2. Available Datasets for SM studies on a global scale (from field to large scale) Section II: Optical and Infrared  Techniques & Synergies between Them 3. Soil moisture (SM) retrievals using optical/TIR methods 4. TVDI-subsurface SM relationship for different crop covers 5. Ts/VI triangle method for SM estimation: a new software tool & results over Europe Section III: Microwave soil moisture retrieval techniques 6. Active MW-based methods, empirical & semi-empirical methods 7. Passive MW-based methods for soil moisture retrieval 8. Active and Passive Microwave Remote Sensing Synergy for Soil Moisture Estimation 9. Passive MW-based methods for soil moisture retrieval 10. Intercomparison of SM retrievals from in-situ, ASAR and CCI ECV datasets Section IV: Synergistic soil moisture estimation techniques 11. Downscaling methods of SM estimates 12. Synergy of Microwave and VIS/IR, downscaling and results with test cases 13. Soil Moisture from Optical and passive microwave data: Vegetation and surface Emissivity effects Section V: Advanced applications of soil moisture 14. Use of satellite soil moisture products for improving landslide prediction 15. Applicability of remotely sensed soil moisture data in forest fire prevention 16. Irrigation Scheduling and Soil Moisture 17. Rainfall runoff modelling 18. A comparative study on SMOS and NLDAS-2 soil moisture over a hydrological basin - with continental climate 19. Continental scale monitoring of sub-daily and daily evapotranspiration enhanced by the assimilation of surface soil moisture derived from thermal infra-red geostationary data 20. Drought-related application Section VI: Future challenges in soil moisture retrieval and applications 21. State of the art in the retrievals of SM at operational level, caveats and future perspectives 22. Future Challenges and the Pathway on improving the retrievals of SM from space 23. Challenges in Validation of SM operational products 24. Future applications of SM related to water and food security: prospects

• ISBN: 978-0-12-803388-3
• Editorial: Elsevier
• Encuadernacion: Cartoné
• Páginas: 368
• Fecha Publicación: 01/05/2016
• Nº Volúmenes: 1
• Idioma: Inglés