Abstracts and presentations
We thank all participants for their contributions and active participation in the Satellite soil moisture validation & application workshop 2014!
Below, you can use the links to access or download the presentations and posters that have been made available. The abstract book can be downloaded here.
| Day 1: 10 July 2014 | |||
| Sensors | |||
| Welcome and workshop objectives | Richard de Jeu (VUA) | download | |
| The NASA Soil Moisture Active Passive (SMAP) Mission Combined Instrument Surface Soil Moisture Product | Dara Entekhabi (MIT) (Invited) |
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| ESA’s Soil Moisture and Ocean Salinity Mission - An overview on the mission’s performance and scientific results | Matthias Drusch (ESA) | ||
| Towards Sentinel-1 Soil Moisture Data Services: The Approach taken by the Earth Observation Data Centre for Water Resources Monitoring | Wolfgang Wagner (TU Wien) | download | |
| Current developments in ASCAT soil moisture services | Julia Figa (Eumetsat) | download | |
| Validation, Data Products and Networks I (Chair: Peter van Oevelen) | |||
| Towards Validation of SMAP Downscaled Soil Moisture | Jeffrey Walker (Monash University) | download | |
| Synergies and complementarities between ASCAT and SMOS soil moisture products | Maria Jose Escorihuela (isardSat) | download | |
| Monitoring Surface Soil Moisture by Combining SMOS and MODIS Products with In-situ Measurements | John Qu (George Mason University) |
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| The Joint Assessment of Soil Moisture Indicators (JASMIN) Project: A community effort to respond to user needs in agriculture and water resources | Ernesto Hugo Berbery (University of Maryland | download | |
| Validation, Data Products and Networks II (Chair: Matthias Drusch) | |||
| The updated CCI soil moisture product: 35 years of observations for climate research | Wouter Dorigo (TU Wien) |
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| Assessing the large-scale spatial representativeness of temporal dynamics of soil moisture over the United States using point and global scale data sets | Nadine Nicolai-Shaw (ETH) |
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| Evaluation of a global soil moisture product by means of finer spatial resolution SAR data and ground measurements over Europe | Chiara Pratola (UCC) | download | |
| Toward assimilation of satellite soil moisture products over Europe | William Lahoz (NILU) |
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| Day 2: 11 July 2014 | |||
| Soil Moisture Applications I (Chair: Wolfgang Wagner) | |||
| Downscaling Coarse-scale Satellite Soil Moisture for Validation Studies and Applications | Eric Wood (Princeton) (Invited) |
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| SMOS – Land Product Developments and Applications | Yann Kerr (ESA) | ||
| Using satellite soil moisture in large-scale water resources estimation | Albert van Dijk (ANU) | download | |
| Soil Moisture Applications II (Chair: Jaap Schellekens) | |||
| Soil Moisture Monitoring For Agricultural Risk Assessment in Canada Using a Multi-Sensor Dataset | Catherine Champagne (Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada) | download | |
| Joining forces for food security – Linking earth observation and crowd-sourcing for improved decision-support to aid organizations | Markus Enenkel (TU Wien) |
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| Data assimilation of satellite observed soil moisture in the vegetation model SiBCASA, and the effects on carbon turnover | Michiel van der Molen (WUR) |
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| Correction of Real-Time Global Precipitation Measurements with multi-sensor satellite observations | Niko Wanders (Utrecht University) | download | |
| Soil Moisture Application III (Chair: Richard de Jeu) | |||
| Relations between meteorological, soil moisture and hydrological drought in a region with complex regional groundwater flow (Gelderland, The Netherlands) | Ryan Teuling (WUR) |
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| Recent Progress in Land Data Assimilation at the Met Office | Brett Candy (Met Office) |
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| Soil moisture and vegetation trend shifts in the African Sahel? | Jan Verbesselt (WUR) | ||
| Global land evaporation from satellite data: applications for hydrology and climate | Diego Miralles (Gent Univ.) |
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| Algorithm development (Chair: Susanne Mecklenburg) | |||
| An application of ANN techniques for the soil moisture retrieval from active and passive microwave satellite acquisitions | Emanuele Santi (IFAC CNR) | download | |
| Considering combined roughness and vegetation effects in soil moisture retrievals | Yann Kerr (INRA CESBIO) |
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| A study towards the integration of SMOS Soil Moisture in a consistent climate record | Richard de Jeu (VUA) | download | |
| Poster Presentations | ||
| Luca Brocca (CNR) |
Estimating Rainfall from Global Satellite Soil Moisture Data: Recent Improvements and Applications | download |
| Anne de Nijs (VUA) |
A Methodology to Determine Radio Frequency Interference in AMSR2 Observations | download |
| Andrei Diamandi (National Meteorological Administration) | The Romanian Soil Moisture & Temperature Observation Network for Satellite Soil Moisture Products Validation | download |
| Anouk Gevaert (VUA) | Improved Downscaled Soil Moisture Product by Masking Precipitation | download |
| Roland B. Haarbrink (Miramap) | Systematic L-band Fieldscans over Agricultural Fields in the Netherlands and Belgium | download |
| Steffen Kothe (Goethe University Frankfurt) | Soil moisture assimilation in the framework of regional decadal climate predictability | download |
| Paola Laiolo (CIMA Research Foundation) |
Impacts of the assimilation of remote sensing soil moisture products into a continuous distributed hydrological model | download |
| Heidi Mittelbach (ETH Zurich) | Validation of the ESA CCI soil moisture product | download |
| Irina Petrova (Max Planck Institute for Meteorology) | Understanding Land-Atmosphere Interactions on Mesoscales Using Observations over the Sahel | download |
| Mohamed Rasmy (University of Tokyo) | A coupled atmosphere and land data assimilation system (CALDAS): a way forward for enhancing the skills of numerical predictions | |
| Tim van Emmerik (Delft University of Technology) | Impact of diurnal differences in vegetation water content on radar backscatter of maize during water stress | |
| Mariette Vreugdenhil (TU Wien) |
Linking vegetation parameters derived from active and passive microwave observations | |
| Zengyan Wang (Cold and Arid Regions Environmental and Engineering Research Institute, Chinese Academy of Sciences) |
A study on the parameter sensitivity analysis of L-MEB model for passive microwave soil moisture retrieval | download |