Remote Sensing of Energy Fluxes and Soil Moisture Content

Integrating decades of research conducted by leading scientists in the field, Remote Sensing of Energy Fluxes and Soil Moisture Content provides an overview of state-of-the-art methods and modeling techniques employed for deriving spatio-temporal estimates of energy fluxes and soil surface moisture from remote sensing. It also underscores the range of such techniques available nowadays as well as the operationally distributed networks that provide today in-situ validated relevant observations. The book brings together three types of articles: Comprehensive reviews that examine the developments in concepts, methods, and techniques employed in deriving land surface heat fluxes as well as soil surface moisture on field, regional, and large scales, paying particular emphasis to the techniques exploiting Earth Observation (EO) technology Detailed insights into the principles and operation of the most widely applied approaches for the quantification and analysis of surface fluxes and soil moisture with case studies that directly show the great applicability of remote sensing in this field, or articles discussing specific issues in the retrievals of those parameters from space Focused articles integrating current knowledge and scientific understanding in the remote sensing of energy fluxes and soil moisture, that are highlighting the main issues, challenges, and future prospects of this emerging technology. Designed with different users in mind, the book is organized in four more or less independent units that make specific information easy to find. It presents a discussion on the future trends and prospects, underlying the scientific challenges that need to be addressed adequately in order to derive more accurate estimates of those parameters from space.

Controls, Conventional Estimation, and Remote Sensing Methods OverviewTurbulent Fluxes of Heat and Moisture at the Earth’s Land Surface: Importance, Controlling Parameters, and Conventional Measurement Techniques, George P. Petropoulos, Toby N. Carlson, and Hywel M. GriffithsSurface Soil Moisture Estimation: Significance, Controls, and Conventional Measurement Techniques, George P. Petropoulos, Hywel M. Griffiths, Wouter Dorigo, Angelika Xaver, and Alexander GruberRemote Sensing of Surface Turbulent Energy Fluxes, George P. PetropoulosSatellite Remote Sensing of Surface Soil Moisture, Brian W. Barrett and George P. PetropoulosRemote Sensing of the Land Surface Radiation Budget, Shunlin Liang, Xiaotong Zhang, Tao He, Jie Cheng, and Dongdong WangRemote Sensing of Surface Energy Fluxes: Algorithms and Case StudiesA Comparative Study of Techniques for Modeling the Spatiotemporal Distribution of Heat and Moisture Fluxes at Different Agroecosystems in Brazil, Antônio Heriberto de Castro Teixeira, Fernando Braz Tangerino Hernandez, H. L. Lopes, Morris Scherer-Warren, and Luís Henrique BassoiEstimation of Land Surface Energy Fluxes from Remote Sensing Using One-Layer Modeling Approaches, Weiqiang Ma, Yaoming Ma, Hirohiko Ishikawa, and Zhongbo SuMapping Surface Fluxes and Moisture Conditions from Field to Global Scales Using ALEXI/DisALEXI, Martha C. Anderson, William P. Kustas, and Christopher R. HainSpatiotemporal Estimation of Land Surface Evapotranspiration Rates from MODIS Data Based on a VI–Ts Approach, Qiuhong Tang, Lei Huang, Hui Liu, Pat Jen-Feng Yeh, and Jaeil ChoGlobal-Scale Estimation of Land Surface Heat Fluxes from Space: Product Assessment and Intercomparison, Matthew McCabe, Diego Miralles, Carlos Jimenez, Ali Ershadi, Joshua Fisher, Qiaozhen Mu, Miaoling Liang, Brigitte Mueller, Justin Sheffield, Sonia Seneviratne, and Eric WoodThe Role of Scale in Determining Surface Energy Fluxes from Remote Sensing, Nathaniel A. Brunsell and Leiqiu HuRemote Sensing of Soil Surface Moisture: Algorithms and Case StudiesPassive Microwave Remote Sensing Techniques for the Retrieval of Surface Soil Moisture from Space, Simonetta Paloscia and Emanuele SantiSoil Moisture Retrieval from Synthetic Aperture Radar: Facing the Soil Roughness Parameterization Problem, Niko E. C. Verhoest and Hans LievensOn the Synergistic Use of Microwave and Infrared Satellite Observations to Monitor Soil Moisture and Flooding, Marouane Temimi, Christopher R. Hain, Xiwu Zhan, Robert Rabin, Martha C. Anderson, Claudia Notarnicola, Jan Stepinski, and Amelise BonhommeOn the Synergy between Optical and TIR Observations for the Retrievals of Soil Moisture Content: Exploring Different Approaches, José Sobrino, Cristian Mattar, Juan Carlos Jiménez-Muñoz, Belen Franch, and Chiara CorbariSoil Moisture Remote Sensing and Data Assimilation, Carsten MontzkaScaling and Filtering Approaches for the Use of Satellite Soil Moisture Observations, Luca Brocca, Florisa Melone, Tommaso Moramarco, Wolfgang Wagner, and Clement AlbergelSelection of Performance Metrics for Global Soil Moisture Products: The Case of ASCAT Product, Clement Albergel, Luca Brocca, Wolfgang Wagner, Patricia de Rosnay, and Jean-Christophe CalvetChallenges and Future OutlookGlobal-Scale Estimation of Land Surface Heat Fluxes from Space: Current Status, Opportunities, and Future Directions, Matthew McCabe, William Kustas, Martha Anderson, Cezar Kongoli, Ali Ershadi, and Christopher R. HainOperations, Challenges, and Prospects of Satellite-Based Surface Soil Moisture Data Services, Wolfgang Wagner, Sebastian Hahn, Julia Figa, Clement Albergel, Patricia de Rosnay, Luca Brocca, Richard de Jeu, Stefan Hasenauer, and Wouter Dorigo