Special Issue on Satellite Soil Moisture and ESA CCI SM published in JAG

CCI Soil Moisture team members Wouter Dorigo and Richard de Jeu have been guest editor of a special issue on “The advances in the validation and application of remotely sensed soil moisture” in the International Journal of Applied Earth Observation and Geoinformation (IF 3.5). The aim of this special issue is to give a comprehensive state-of-the-art on the potential and limitations of various new satellite products, in particular with respect to the various application fields. The ESA CCI Soil Moisture dataset plays a central role in many of the publications.

The Special Issue contains 26 contributions in total, separated into two parts:

• Part 1 primarily focuses on single sensor soil moisture retrievals and product validation and is available online at:http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/journal/03032434/45/part/PB
• Part 2 focuses on soil moisture applications, in particular those using the long-term ESA CCI Soil Moisture dataset. Part 2 can be accessed at: http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/journal/03032434/48

The special issue features several contributions with participation of CCI Soil Moisture members:

• De Jeu, R., Dorigo, W. (2016). On the importance of satellite-observed soil moisture. International Journal of Applied Earth Observation and Geoinformation, 45, part B,107-109, doi: 10.1016/j.jag.2015.10.007

• Dorigo, W, de Jeu, R. (2016). Satellite soil moisture for advancing our understanding of earth system processes and climate change, International Journal of Applied Earth Observation and Geoinformation, 48, 2016, 1-4, doi: 10.1016/j.jag.2016.02.007

• Ciabatta, L., Brocca, L., Massari, C., Moramarco, T., Gabellani, S., Puca, S., Wagner, W. (2016). Rainfall-runoff modelling by using SM2RAIN-derived and state-of-the-art satellite rainfall products over Italy. International Journal of Applied Earth Observation and Geoinformation, 48, 163-17, doi: 10.1016/j.jag.2015.10.004

• Griesfeller, A., Lahoz,  W. A., de Jeu, R. A. M, Dorigo, W., Haugen, L. E., Svendby, T. M., Wagner, W. (2016).Evaluation of satellite soil moisture products over Norway using ground-based observations.  International Journal of Applied Earth Observation and Geoinformation, 45, part B, 155 - 164, doi: 10.1016/j.jag.2015.04.016

• Gruber, A., Su, C.-H., Zwieback, S., Crow, W., Dorigo, W., Wagner, W. (2016). Recent advances in (soil moisture) triple collocation analysis. International Journal of Applied Earth Observation and Geoinformation, 45, part B, 200-211. doi:10.1016/j.jag.2015.09.002

• R.van der Schalie, Y.H. Kerr, J.P. Wigneron, N.J. Rodríguez-Fernández, A. Al-Yaari, R.A.M.de Jeu, Global SMOS Soil Moisture Retrievals from The Land Parameter Retrieval Model, International Journal of Applied Earth Observation and Geoinformation, Volume 45, Part B, March 2016, Pages 125-134, ISSN 0303-2434, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.jag.2015.08.005
  

• Gevaert, A. I., Parinussa, R. M., Renzullo, L. J., van Dijk, A. I. J. M., & de Jeu, R. A. M. (2016). Spatio-temporal evaluation of resolution enhancement for passive microwave soil moisture and vegetation optical depth. International Journal of Applied Earth Observation and Geoinformation, 45, 235-244.