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View article: Benefits and pitfalls of irrigation timing and water amounts derived from satellite soil moisture
Benefits and pitfalls of irrigation timing and water amounts derived from satellite soil moisture Open
Despite the key role of irrigation in the Earth system, we lack fundamental information regarding the distribution of irrigated fields, irrigation timing and the amount of water utilized. In the past years, the SM_Delta and SM_Inversion ap…
View article: SLAINTE: A sub-daily (In)SAR mission idea to study vegetation water, health and carbon
SLAINTE: A sub-daily (In)SAR mission idea to study vegetation water, health and carbon Open
Changes in sub-daily vegetation water content capture the pulse of the Earth's ecosystems. They reflect the interplay between plant function, evaporation, and soil moisture, and underpin land-atmosphere exchange of water and carbon from le…
View article: Food security in a changing climate - how can Earth observation and machine learning help? 
Food security in a changing climate - how can Earth observation and machine learning help?  Open
Climate change is threatening food security. To ensure food security, we do not only have to safeguard agricultural production - crop yields also need to be optimally distributed. For that, decision-makers need reliable crop forecasts so t…
View article: Downscaling ESA CCI Soil Moisture: From 0.25° to 0.01° using a two-step machine learning approach
Downscaling ESA CCI Soil Moisture: From 0.25° to 0.01° using a two-step machine learning approach Open
Soil moisture (SM) is a key component of the Earth system and a key factor in climatological and hydrological processes as it regulates water, carbon and energy fluxes between land and atmosphere. For various applications – including…
View article: Author Correction: Irrigation in the Earth system
Author Correction: Irrigation in the Earth system Open
View article: Crop yield anomaly forecasting in the Pannonian basin using gradient boosting and its performance in years of severe drought
Crop yield anomaly forecasting in the Pannonian basin using gradient boosting and its performance in years of severe drought Open
View article: Irrigation in the Earth system
Irrigation in the Earth system Open
View article: Irrigation Timing Retrieval at the Plot Scale Using Surface Soil Moisture Derived from Sentinel Time Series in Europe
Irrigation Timing Retrieval at the Plot Scale Using Surface Soil Moisture Derived from Sentinel Time Series in Europe Open
The difficulty of calculating the daily water budget of irrigated fields is often due to the uncertainty surrounding irrigation amounts and timing. The automated detection of irrigation events has the potential to greatly simplify this pro…
View article: Maize and wheat yield forecasting in the Pannonian Basin using extreme gradient boosting and its performance in years of severe drought
Maize and wheat yield forecasting in the Pannonian Basin using extreme gradient boosting and its performance in years of severe drought Open
The increasing frequency and intensity of severe droughts over recent decades have significantly impacted crop production in the Pannonian Basin in southeastern Europe. Related crop yield losses can be substantial and require logistic comp…
View article: Irrigation timing retrieval at the plot scale using Surface Soil Moisture derived from Sentinel time series in Europe
Irrigation timing retrieval at the plot scale using Surface Soil Moisture derived from Sentinel time series in Europe Open
The computation of the water budget of irrigated fields is generally difficult because of unknown irrigation amounts and timing. Automatic detection of irrigation events could greatly simplify the water balance of irrigated fields. The com…
View article: Downscaling the ESA CCI Soil Moisture: a new European dataset at 1 km for the period 2008-202
Downscaling the ESA CCI Soil Moisture: a new European dataset at 1 km for the period 2008-202 Open
The European Space Agency (ESA) Climate Change Initiative (CCI) provides long-term surface soil moisture (SM) records with daily temporal resolution. However, the coarse spatial resolution of approximately 25 km limits their use in many hy…
View article: Challenges and benefits of quantifying irrigation through the assimilation of Sentinel-1 backscatter observations into Noah-MP
Challenges and benefits of quantifying irrigation through the assimilation of Sentinel-1 backscatter observations into Noah-MP Open
In recent years, the amount of water used for agricultural purposes has been rising due to an increase in food demand. However, anthropogenic water usage, such as for irrigation, is still not or poorly parameterized in regional- and larger…
View article: How accurately can we retrieve irrigation timing and water amounts from (satellite) soil moisture?
How accurately can we retrieve irrigation timing and water amounts from (satellite) soil moisture? Open
While ensuring food security worldwide, irrigation is altering the water cycle and generating numerous environmental side effects. As detailed knowledge about the timing and the amounts of water used for irrigation over large areas is stil…
View article: Benefits of Sentinel-1 backscatter assimilation to improve land surface model irrigation estimates in Europe
Benefits of Sentinel-1 backscatter assimilation to improve land surface model irrigation estimates in Europe Open
<p>Irrigation has been applied by humans for as long as they have been cultivating plants. Nowadays, the amount of water used for agricultural purposes is rising because of an increasing food demand. However, this human influence on …
View article: Challenges and benefits of quantifying irrigation through the assimilation of Sentinel-1 backscatter observations into Noah-MP
Challenges and benefits of quantifying irrigation through the assimilation of Sentinel-1 backscatter observations into Noah-MP Open
In recent years, the amount of water used for agricultural purposes has been rising due to an increase in food demand. However, anthropogenic water usage, such as for irrigation, is still not or poorly parameterized in regional and larger-…
View article: Supplementary material to "Challenges and benefits of quantifying irrigation through the assimilation of Sentinel-1 backscatter observations into Noah-MP"
Supplementary material to "Challenges and benefits of quantifying irrigation through the assimilation of Sentinel-1 backscatter observations into Noah-MP" Open
View article: Data-Driven Crop Yield Forecasting in the Pannonian Basin and its Skill in Years of Severe Drought
Data-Driven Crop Yield Forecasting in the Pannonian Basin and its Skill in Years of Severe Drought Open
View article: The International Soil Moisture Network: serving Earth system science for over a decade
The International Soil Moisture Network: serving Earth system science for over a decade Open
In 2009, the International Soil Moisture Network (ISMN) was initiated as a community effort, funded by the European Space Agency, to serve as a centralised data hosting facility for globally available in situ soil moisture measurements (Do…
View article: A Review of Irrigation Information Retrievals from Space and Their Utility for Users
A Review of Irrigation Information Retrievals from Space and Their Utility for Users Open
Irrigation represents one of the most impactful human interventions in the terrestrial water cycle. Knowing the distribution and extent of irrigated areas as well as the amount of water used for irrigation plays a central role in modeling …
View article: Closing the Water Cycle from Observations across Scales: Where Do We Stand?
Closing the Water Cycle from Observations across Scales: Where Do We Stand? Open
Life on Earth vitally depends on the availability of water. Human pressure on freshwater resources is increasing, as is human exposure to weather-related extremes (droughts, storms, floods) caused by climate change. Understanding these cha…
View article: Detection and Quantification of Irrigation Water Amounts at 500 m Using Sentinel-1 Surface Soil Moisture
Detection and Quantification of Irrigation Water Amounts at 500 m Using Sentinel-1 Surface Soil Moisture Open
Detailed information about irrigation timing and water use at a high spatial resolution is critical for monitoring and improving agricultural water use efficiency. However, neither statistical surveys nor remote sensing-based approaches ca…
View article: Detection and quantification of irrigation water amounts at sub-kilometric scale using Sentinel-1 surface soil moisture
Detection and quantification of irrigation water amounts at sub-kilometric scale using Sentinel-1 surface soil moisture Open
<p>Detailed information about the timing and the amount of water used for irrigation at a high spatial resolution is critical for monitoring and improving agricultural water use efficiency. However, neither statistical surveys nor cu…
View article: The International Soil Moisture Network: serving Earth systemscience for over a decade
The International Soil Moisture Network: serving Earth systemscience for over a decade Open
In 2009, the International Soil Moisture Network (ISMN) was initiated as a community effort, funded by the European Space Agency, to serve as a centralised data hosting facility for globally available in situ soil moisture measurements (Do…
View article: Evaluation of remotely sensed soil moisture products using crowdsourced measurements
Evaluation of remotely sensed soil moisture products using crowdsourced measurements Open
Global soil moisture products retrieved from various sensors onboard satellites are becoming readily available.However, validation of such products is a crucial step to ensure their reliability.In-situ measurements, which provide the most …
View article: Evaluating the suitability of the consumer low-cost Parrot Flower Power soil moisture sensor for scientific environmental applications
Evaluating the suitability of the consumer low-cost Parrot Flower Power soil moisture sensor for scientific environmental applications Open
Citizen science, scientific work and data collection conducted by or with non-experts, is rapidly growing. Although the potential of citizen science activities to generate enormous amounts of data otherwise not feasible is widely recognize…
View article: Impact of soil wetness on plant litter decomposition using low-cost soil moisture sensors and off-the-shelf tea bags
Impact of soil wetness on plant litter decomposition using low-cost soil moisture sensors and off-the-shelf tea bags Open
<p>Soil organic matter plays a key role within the nutrient cycle, serves as an agent to improve soil structure, and is also known to impact concentrations of greenhouse gases and stabilize soil pollutants. Thus, the soil organic mat…
View article: The International Soil Moisture Network: an open-source data hosting facility in support of hydrological research
The International Soil Moisture Network: an open-source data hosting facility in support of hydrological research Open
<p><span>The International Soil Moisture Network (ISMN, </span><span></span><span>) is an international cooperation to establish and maintain an open-source global data hosting facility, providing in-sit…
View article: Estimation of high-resolution soil moisture using machine learning, satellite observations and ground measurements. A case study in a hilly agricultural region
Estimation of high-resolution soil moisture using machine learning, satellite observations and ground measurements. A case study in a hilly agricultural region Open
<p>Remotely sensed data from microwave sensors have been successfully used to retrieve soil moisture on a global scale. In particular, passive and active microwave sensors with large footprints can observe the same location with a (s…
View article: Deriving Field Scale Soil Moisture from Satellite Observations and Ground Measurements in a Hilly Agricultural Region
Deriving Field Scale Soil Moisture from Satellite Observations and Ground Measurements in a Hilly Agricultural Region Open
Agricultural and hydrological applications could greatly benefit from soil moisture (SM) information at sub-field resolution and (sub-) daily revisit time. However, current operational satellite missions provide soil moisture information a…
View article: Evaluating the suitability of the consumer low-cost Parrot Flower Power soil moisture sensor for scientific environmental applications
Evaluating the suitability of the consumer low-cost Parrot Flower Power soil moisture sensor for scientific environmental applications Open
Citizen science, scientific work and data collection conducted by or with non-experts, is rapidly growing. Although the potential of citizen science activities to generate enormous amounts of data otherwise not feasible is widely recognize…