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Remote Sensing
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Fluxes and
Soil Moisture
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Remote Sensing
of Energy
Fluxes and
Soil Moisture
Content
George P. Petropoulos
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Contents
Preface ..............................................................................................................................................xi
Acknowledgments ........................................................................................................................xv
Editor............................................................................................................................................xvii
Contributors .................................................................................................................................xix
Section I Controls, Conventional Estimation, and Remote
Sensing Methods Overview
1. Turbulent Fluxes of Heat and Moisture at the Earth’s Land
Surface: Importance, Controlling Parameters, and Conventional
Measurement Techniques ................................................................................................3
George P. Petropoulos, Toby N. Carlson, and Hywel M. Griffiths
2. Surface Soil Moisture Estimation: Significance, Controls, and Conventional
Measurement Techniques ...................................................................................................29
George P. Petropoulos, Hywel M. Griffiths, Wouter Dorigo, Angelika Xaver, and
Alexander Gruber
3. Remote Sensing of Surface Turbulent Energy Fluxes ..................................................49
George P. Petropoulos
4. Satellite Remote Sensing of Surface Soil Moisture ......................................................85
Brian W. Barrett and George P. Petropoulos
5. Remote Sensing of the Land Surface Radiation Budget ............................................121
Shunlin Liang, Xiaotong Zhang, Tao He, Jie Cheng, and Dongdong Wang
Section II Remote Sensing of Surface Energy Fluxes:
Algorithms and Case Studies
6. A Comparative Study of Techniques for Modeling the Spatiotemporal
Distribution of Heat and Moisture Fluxes at Different Agroecosystems in
Brazil .....................................................................................................................................165
Antônio Heriberto de Castro Teixeira, Fernando Braz Tangerino Hernandez,
H. L. Lopes, Morris Scherer-Warren, and Luís Henrique Bassoi
7. Estimation of Land Surface Energy Fluxes from Remote Sensing Using
One-Layer Modeling Approaches ...................................................................................189
Weiqiang Ma, Yaoming Ma, Hirohiko Ishikawa, and Zhongbo Su
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8. Mapping Surface Fluxes and Moisture Conditions from Field to Global
Scales Using ALEXI/DisALEXI .......................................................................................207
Martha C. Anderson, William P. Kustas, and Christopher R. Hain
9. Spatiotemporal Estimation of Land Surface Evapotranspiration Rates from
MODIS Data Based on a VI–T Approach .....................................................................233
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Qiuhong Tang, Lei Huang, Hui Liu, Pat Jen-Feng Yeh, and Jaeil Cho
10. Global-Scale Estimation of Land Surface Heat Fluxes from Space: Product
Assessment and Intercomparison ...................................................................................249
Matthew McCabe, Diego Miralles, Carlos Jimenez, Ali Ershadi, Joshua Fisher,
Qiaozhen Mu, Miaoling Liang, Brigitte Mueller, Justin Sheffield, Sonia Seneviratne,
and Eric Wood
11. The Role of Scale in Determining Surface Energy Fluxes from Remote Sensing ...283
Nathaniel A. Brunsell and Leiqiu Hu
Section III Remote Sensing of Soil Surface Moisture:
Algorithms and Case Studies
12. Passive Microwave Remote Sensing Techniques for the Retrieval of Surface
Soil Moisture from Space .................................................................................................303
Simonetta Paloscia and Emanuele Santi
13. Soil Moisture Retrieval from Synthetic Aperture Radar: Facing the Soil
Roughness Parameterization Problem ...........................................................................323
Niko E. C. Verhoest and Hans Lievens
14. On the Synergistic Use of Microwave and Infrared Satellite Observations to
Monitor Soil Moisture and Flooding .............................................................................345
Marouane Temimi, Christopher R. Hain, Xiwu Zhan, Robert Rabin,
Martha C. Anderson, Claudia Notarnicola, Jan Stepinski, and Amelise Bonhomme
15. On the Synergy between Optical and TIR Observations for the Retrievals of
Soil Moisture Content: Exploring Different Approaches ..........................................363
José Sobrino, Cristian Mattar, Juan Carlos Jiménez-Muñoz, Belen Franch, and Chiara Corbari
16. Soil Moisture Remote Sensing and Data Assimilation ..............................................391
Carsten Montzka
17. Scaling and Filtering Approaches for the Use of Satellite Soil Moisture
Observations ........................................................................................................................411
Luca Brocca, Florisa Melone, Tommaso Moramarco, Wolfgang Wagner, and Clement Albergel
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18. Selection of Performance Metrics for Global Soil Moisture Products:
The Case of ASCAT Product ............................................................................................427
Clement Albergel, Luca Brocca, Wolfgang Wagner, Patricia de Rosnay, and
Jean-Christophe Calvet
Section IV Challenges and Future Outlook
19. Global-Scale Estimation of Land Surface Heat Fluxes from Space: Current
Status, Opportunities, and Future Directions ..............................................................447
Matthew McCabe, William Kustas, Martha Anderson, Cezar Kongoli, Ali Ershadi, and
Christopher R. Hain
20. Operations, Challenges, and Prospects of Satellite-Based Surface Soil
Moisture Data Services .....................................................................................................463
Wolfgang Wagner, Sebastian Hahn, Julia Figa, Clement Albergel, Patricia de Rosnay,
Luca Brocca, Richard de Jeu, Stefan Hasenauer, and Wouter Dorigo
