Browsing by Subject "Soil moisture"

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    • 2000 days of SMOS at the Barcelona Expert Centre: a tribute to the work of Jordi Font 

      Turiel Martínez, Antonio; Piles Guillem, Maria; González Gambau, V.; Ballabrera Poy, Joaquim; Gabarró Prats, Carolina; Martinez, Justino; Olmedo, Estrella; Portabella, Marcos; Pérez López, Fernando; Solé Ollé, Jordi (2016-09-01)
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      Soil Moisture and Ocean Salinity (SMOS) is the first satellite mission capable of measuring sea surface salinity and soil moisture from space. Its novel instrument (the L-band radiometer MIRAS) has required the development ...

    • 3Cat-3/MOTS nanosatellite mission for optical multispectral and GNSS-R Earth Observation: concept and analysis 

      Castellví Esturi, Jordi; Camps Carmona, Adriano José; Corbera Fauria, Jordi; Alamús, Ramón (Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute (MDPI), 2018-01-06)
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      The 3Cat-3/MOTS (3: Cube, Cat: Catalunya, 3: 3rd CubeSat mission/Missió Observació Terra Satèl·lit) mission is a joint initiative between the Institut Cartogràfic i Geològic de Catalunya (ICGC) and the Universitat Politècnica ...

    • A downscaling approach to combine SMOS multi-angular and full-polarimetric observations with MODIS VIS/IR data into high resolution soil moisture maps 

      Piles Guillem, Maria; Vall-Llossera Ferran, Mercedes Magdalena; Laguna, Laia; Camps Carmona, Adriano José (Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE), 2012)
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      A downscaling algorithmfor SMOS which combines MODIS Visible/Infrared data and SMOS horizontal brightness temperatures at 42.5◦ incidence angle into high-resolution soil moisture maps has been shown to nicely reproduce ...

    • A low-power IoT device for measuring water table levels and soil moisture to ease increased crop yields 

      López, Emiliano; Vionnet, Carlos; Ferrer Cid, Pau; Barceló Ordinas, José María; García Vidal, Jorge; Contini, Guillermo; Prodolliet, Jorge; Maiztegui, José (2022-09-09)
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      The simultaneous measurement of soil water content and water table levels is of great agronomic and hydrological interest. Not only does soil moisture represent the water available for plant growth but also water table ...

    • A new space technology for ocean observation: the SMOS mission 

      Font Ferré, Jordi; Ballabrera Poy, Joaquim; Camps Carmona, Adriano José; Corbella Sanahuja, Ignasi; Duffo Ubeda, Núria; Durán Martínez, Israel; Emelianov Kolomitski, Mikhail; Enrique González, Luis; Fernández Gallego, Pedro; Gabarró Prats, Carolina; González, Cristina; González, Veronica; Gourrion, J.; Guimbard, S.; Hoareau, N.; Julià, A; Kalaroni, S.; Konstantinidou, Anna; Aretxabaleta, L.; Martínez, Justino; Miranda, Jorge Miguel; Monerris Belda, Alessandra; Montero, Sergio; Mourre, B.; Pablos Hernández, Miriam; Pérez Villar, Fernando; Piles Guillem, Maria; Portabella, M.; Sabia, R.; Salvador, Joaquin; Talone, Marco; Torres Torres, Francisco; Turiel Martínez, Antonio; Vall-Llossera Ferran, Mercedes Magdalena; Villarino Villarino, Ramón (2012)
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      Capability for sea surface salinity observation was an important gap in ocean remote sensing in the last few decades of the 20th century. New technological developments during the 1990s at the European Space Agency led to ...

    • A spatially consistent downscaling approach for SMOS using an adaptive window 

      Portal González, Gerard; Vall-Llossera Ferran, Mercedes Magdalena; Piles de la Fuente, María Pilar; Camps Carmona, Adriano José; Chaparro Danon, David; Pablos Hernández, Miriam; Rossato, Luciana (Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE), 2017)
      Conference report
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      The ESA's Soil Moisture and Ocean Salinity (SMOS, 2009-2017) is the first mission using L-band radiometry to monitor the Earth's global surface soil moisture (SM). After more than 7 years in orbit, many studies have ...

    • Advances in calibration of the SMOS zero-baseline radiometers 

      Colliander, Andreas; Chae, Chunsik; Dinnat, Emmanuel Philippe; Oliva Balagué, Roger; Kainulainen, Juha; Torres Torres, Francisco; Corbella Sanahuja, Ignasi; Martín Neira, Manuel (Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE), 2014)
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      Over the course of the more than four-year mission several enhancements have been developed for the calibration of the zero-baseline radiometers of ESA's SMOS (Soil Moisture Ocean Salinity) mission. Here a particular ...

    • Airborne GNSS-R, thermal and optical data relationships for soil moisture retrievals 

      Sánchez, Nilda; Alonso Arroyo, Alberto; González Zamora, Ángel; Martinez Fernandez, Jose; Camps Carmona, Adriano José; Vall-Llossera Ferran, Mercedes Magdalena; Pablos Hernández, Miriam; Herrero Jimenez, Carlos M. (Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE), 2015)
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      New remote sensing techniques based on the analysis of the Earth's surface-reflected signal from the Global Navigation Satellite Systems (GNSS-Reflectometry, or GNSS-R in short) are emerging. Soil moisture and vegetation ...

    • Airborne GNSS-R: A key enabling technology for environmental monitoring 

      Pérez Portero, Adrián; Muñoz Martin, Joan Francesc; Hyuk, Park; Camps Carmona, Adriano José (Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE), 2021)
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      Weather forecast using GNSS-R relies, to a large extent, on data acquired by airborne and spaceborne platforms due to the extended coverage that can be achieved. GEO satellites can retrieve measurements over large areas ...

    • An airborne GNSS-R field experiment over a vineyard for soil moisture estimation and monitoring 

      Alonso Arroyo, Alberto; Camps Carmona, Adriano José; Sanchez, Nilda; Pablos Hernández, Miriam; González Zamora, Ángel; Martinez Fernandez, Jose; Vall-Llossera Ferran, Mercedes Magdalena; Pascual, D. (Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE), 2015)
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      The Light Airborne Reflectometer for GNSS-R Observations (LARGO) is an airborne instrument designed for measuring the coherent reflectivity from different soils. In this work, an improved version of LARGO has been used in ...

    • Analyzing spatio-temporal factors to estimate the response time between SMOS and in-situ soil moisture at different depths 

      Herbert, Christoph Josef; Pablos Hernández, Miriam; Vall-Llossera Ferran, Mercedes Magdalena; Camps Carmona, Adriano José; Martinez Fernandez, Jose (Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute (MDPI), 2020-08-13)
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      A comprehensive understanding of temporal variability of subsurface soil moisture (SM) is paramount in hydrological and agricultural applications such as rainfed farming and irrigation. Since the SMOS (Soil Moisture and ...

    • Análisis del contenido de agua en el suelo a escala regional y su efecto en la estabilidad de taludes 

      Contreras Becerra, Ariel (Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya, 2022-07-13)
      Master thesis
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      En aquest treball es presenta la possibilitat d'utilitzar dades de contingut d'humitat mitjançant un model hidrològic, a 3 zones de Catalunya, de l'any 2019, les quals són un talús experimental a Agropolis UPC, un vestuari ...

    • Assessment of different backscattering models for bare soil surface parameters estimation from SAR data in band C, L and P 

      Mirmazloumi, Seyed Mohammad (2016-01)
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      Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR) is the most widely used sensor for retrieving soil surface parameters. This study was performed in two steps. In the first step, estimated backscattering coefficients using three models, Oh, ...

    • Assessment of multi-scale SMOS and SMAP soil moisture products across the Iberian Peninsula 

      Portal González, Gerard; Jagdhuber, Thomas; Vall-Llossera Ferran, Mercedes Magdalena; Camps Carmona, Adriano José; Pablos Hernández, Miriam; Entekhabi, Dara; Piles, María (Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute (MDPI), 2020-02-01)
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      In the last decade, technological advances led to the launch of two satellite missions dedicated to measure the Earth’s surface soil moisture (SSM): the ESA’s Soil Moisture and Ocean Salinity (SMOS) launched in 2009, and ...

    • Atmospheric phase drift analysis and compensation in permanent Gb-Sar monitoring of crop fields 

      Palacio García, Héctor; Broquetas Ibars, Antoni; Aguasca Solé, Alberto (Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE), 2021)
      Conference report
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      In the framework of a feasibility study in support of the Hydroterra mission, a high resolution radar has been setup to monitor continuously a crop field with high resolution synthetic aperture radar images. In parallel, ...

    • Benefits of applying nodal sampling to SMOS data over semi-enclosed seas and strongly RFI-contaminated regions 

      González Gambau, Verónica; Olmedo, Estrella; Martinez, J.; Turiel, Antonio; Corbella Sanahuja, Ignasi; Oliva, Roger; Martín Neira, Manuel (Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE), 2018)
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      Radio Frequency Interferences (RFI) are still an important source of contamination in SMOS data. The application of nodal sampling (NS) to brightness temperature images helps to mitigate the degradation that RFIs produce ...

    • Burned area prediction in Southern Asia using machine learning with land and atmospheric parameters 

      Irawan, Amir Mustofa; Vall-Llossera Ferran, Mercedes Magdalena; López Martínez, Carlos; Camps Carmona, Adriano José; Chaparro Danon, David; Portal González, Gerard; Pablos Hernández, Miriam (Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE), 2023)
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      In the work a random forest model has been implemented as an interpretable machine learning tool in the effort to estimate the burned areas caused by fire outbreaks in India, Pakistan, and Myanmar in April and May 2022. ...

    • Calibration methods in large interferometric radiometers devoted to earth observation 

      Torres Torres, Francisco; Camps Carmona, Adriano José; Corbella Sanahuja, Ignasi; Bará Temes, Francisco Javier; Duffo Ubeda, Núria; Vall-Llossera Ferran, Mercedes Magdalena (VSP, 2000-01)
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      This paper starts with a summary and classification of errors of any kind that corrupt the fundamental measurement performed by an InR (interferometric radiometer), the so-called visibilities. This summary is based on prior ...

    • Combining SMOS with visible and near/shortwave/thermal infrared satellite data for high resolution soil moisture estimates 

      Sanchez Ruiz, Sergio; Piles Guillem, Maria; Sanchez, Nilda; Martinez Fernandez, Jose; Vall-Llossera Ferran, Mercedes Magdalena; Camps Carmona, Adriano José (Elsevier, 2014-08-04)
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      Sensors in the range of visible and near-shortwave-thermal infrared regions can be used in combination with passive microwave observations to provide soil moisture maps at much higher spatial resolution than the original ...

    • Comparación entre los productos de humedad del suelo SMOS y ECV 

      Portal González, Gerard (Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya, 2015-09)
      Master thesis (pre-Bologna period)
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      The SMOS mission is providing the first ever global observations of surface soil moisture (SSM) at L-band. With almost five years of mapping this variable, it is now possible to start analyzing SSM spatial and temporal ...