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A Combined Satellite-Derived Drought Indicator to Support Humanitarian Aid Organizations

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ASCAT soil moisture product: a review of its specifications, validation results, and emerging applications ⬇️

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Accuracy of large-scale canopy heights derived from LiDAR data under operational constraints in a complex alpine environment

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An Improved Soil Moisture Retrieval Algorithm for ERS and METOP Scatterometer Observations

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An assessment of remotely sensed surface and root zone soil moisture through active and passive sensors in northeast Asia

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Analysis of C-Band Scatterometer Moisture Estimations Derived Over a Semiarid Region

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Analyzing the Vegetation Parameterization in the TU-Wien ASCAT Soil Moisture Retrieval

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Application of C and Ku-Band scatterometer data for catchment hydrology in northern latitudes

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Assimilation of ASCAT near-surface soil moisture into the SIM hydrological model over France

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Assimilation of Surface- and Root-Zone ASCAT Soil Moisture Products Into Rainfall–Runoff Modeling

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Assimilation of satellite soil moisture data into rainfall-runoff modelling for several catchments worldwide

Azimuthal anisotropy of scatterometer measurements over land

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Capability evaluation of 3–5 µm and 8–12.5 µm airborne thermal data for underground coal fire detection

Catchment scale validation of SMOS and ASCAT soil moisture products using hydrological modeling and temporal stability analysis

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Change detection approaches for flood extent mapping: How to select the most adequate reference image from online archives?

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Clarifications on the “Comparison Between SMOS, VUA, ASCAT, and ECMWF Soil Moisture Products Over Four Watersheds in U.S.”

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Compared performances of microwave passive soil moisture retrievals (SMOS) and active soil moisture retrievals (ASCAT) using land surface model estimates (MERRA-LAND)

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Comparing soil moisture retrievals from SMOS and ASCAT over France

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Comparison of Different Satellite Rainfall Products Over the Italian Territory

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Comparison of four global FAPAR datasets over Northern Eurasia for the year 2000

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Constructing and analyzing a 32-years climate data record of remotely sensed soil moisture

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Different tree-ring width sensitivities to satellite-based soil moisture from dry, moderate and wet pedunculate oak (Quercus robur L.) stands across a southeastern distribution margin

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Evaluation of the predicted error of the soil moisture retrieval from C-band SAR by comparison against modelled soil moisture estimates over Australia

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Frozen soil detection based on advanced scatterometer observations and air temperature data as part of soil moisture retrieval ⬇️

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Gaussian decomposition and calibration of a novel small-footprint full-waveform digitising airborne laser scanner

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Growing stock estimation for alpine forests in Austria: a robust lidar-based approach

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High-resolution (1 km) satellite rainfall estimation from SM2RAIN applied to Sentinel-1: Po River basin as a case study

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Homogeneity of a global multisatellite soil moisture climate data record

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Inferring the impact of radar incidence angle on soil moisture retrieval skill using data assimilation

Initial soil moisture effects on flash flood generation – A comparison between basins of contrasting hydro-climatic conditions

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Integrating earth observation and GIScience for high resolution spatial and functional modeling of urban land use

Integration of Satellite Soil Moisture and Rainfall Observations over the Italian Territory

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Inter-comparison of microwave satellite soil moisture retrievals over the Murrumbidgee Basin, southeast Australia

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Intercomparison of microwave remote-sensing soil moisture data sets based on distributed eco-hydrological model simulation and in situ measurements over the North China Plain

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Large-scale mapping of boreal forest in SIBERIA using ERS tandem coherence and JERS backscatter data

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Large-scale soil moisture mapping in western Africa using the ERS scatterometer

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Mapping Wetlands in Zambia Using Seasonal Backscatter Signatures Derived from ENVISAT ASAR Time Series ⬇️

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Monitoring freeze/thaw cycles using ENVISAT ASAR Global Mode

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Monitoring multi-decadal satellite earth observation of soil moisture products through land surface reanalyses

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Monitoring soil moisture over the Canadian Prairies with the ERS scatterometer

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Operational wide-area stem volume estimation based on airborne laser scanning and national forest inventory data

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Optimisation of global grids for high-resolution remote sensing data

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Probabilistic Fusion of $\hbox{K}_{\rm u}$- and C-band Scatterometer Data for Determining the Freeze/Thaw State

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Radiometric calibration of small-footprint full-waveform airborne laser scanner measurements: Basic physical concepts

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Rice-planted area extraction by time series analysis of ENVISAT ASAR WS data using a phenology-based classification approach: A case study for Red River Delta, Vietnam

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Root-zone plant available water estimation using the SMOS-derived soil water index

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Roughness Mapping on Various Vertical Scales Based on Full-Waveform Airborne Laser Scanning Data

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Satellite-based terrestrial production efficiency modeling

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Scatterometer and ScanSAR soil moisture observations of the contiguous United States

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Selecting algorithms for Earth observation of climate within the European Space Agency Climate Change Initiative: Introduction to a special issue

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Sensitivity of Sentinel-1 Backscatter to Vegetation Dynamics: An Austrian Case Study

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Soil Moisture Estimation in Alpine Catchments through Modeling and Satellite Observations

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Soil Moisture from Fusion of Scatterometer and SAR: Closing the Scale Gap with Temporal Filtering

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Soil moisture estimation through ASCAT and AMSR-E sensors: An intercomparison and validation study across Europe

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Status of the Metop ASCAT soil moisture product

Structural and statistical properties of the collocation technique for error characterization

Suitability of SAR imagery for automatic flood mapping in the Lower Mekong Basin

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Taking Responsibility on Publishing the Controversial Paper “On the Misdiagnosis of Surface Temperature Feedbacks from Variations in Earth’s Radiant Energy Balance” by Spencer and Braswell, Remote Sens. 2011, 3(8), 1603-1613

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Temporal and spatial variability of the beginning and end of daily spring freeze/thaw cycles derived from scatterometer data

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Temporal error variability of coarse scale soil moisture products - case study in central Spain

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The Impact of Quadratic Nonlinear Relations between Soil Moisture Products on Uncertainty Estimates from Triple Collocation Analysis and Two Quadratic Extensions

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The Impact of Radar Incidence Angle on Soil-Moisture-Retrieval Skill

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The effect of assimilating satellite-derived soil moisture data in SiBCASA on simulated carbon fluxes in Boreal Eurasia

The medium resolution soil moisture dataset: Overview of the SHARE ESA DUE TIGER project

The potential of 2D Kalman filtering for soil moisture data assimilation

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The potential of multidiurnal MODIS thermal band data for coal fire detection

Thermal characteristics of coal fires 2: Results of measurements on simulated coal fires

Time series analysis of SMOS and ASCAT: Soil moisture product validation in the Rur and Erft catchments

Toward Global Drought Early Warning Capability: Expanding International Cooperation for the Development of a Framework for Monitoring and Forecasting

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Towards a high-density soil moisture network for the validation of SMAP in Petzenkirchen, Austria

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Trend-preserving blending of passive and active microwave soil moisture retrievals

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Uncontrolled coal fires and their environmental impacts: Investigating two arid mining regions in north-central China

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Use of satellite and modeled soil moisture data for predicting event soil loss at plot scale ⬇️

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Using ENVISAT ASAR Global Mode Data for Surface Soil Moisture Retrieval Over Oklahoma, USA

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Utilising Sentinel-1’s Orbital Stability for Efficient Pre-Processing of Radiometric Terrain Corrected Gamma Nought Backscatter

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Utilization of full-waveform data in airborne laser scanning applications

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Validation of ERS scatterometer-derived soil moisture data in the central part of the Duero Basin, Spain

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Validation of the ASAR Global Monitoring Mode Soil Moisture Product Using the NAFE'05 Data Set

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Waveform calibration strategies for a small-footprint laser scanner

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