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52. Carlson TN, Gillies RR, Perry EM (1994) A method to make use of thermal infrared
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61. Njoku EG, Jackson TJ, Lakshmi V, Chan TK, Nghiem SV (2003) Soil moisture retrieval from
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67. Bartalis Z, Wagner W, Naeimi V, Hasenauer S, Scipal K, Bonekamp H, Figa J, Anderson C
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Geophys Res Lett 34(20)
68. Jackson TJ, Bindlish R, Cosh MH, Zhao T, Starks PJ, Bosch DD, Seyfried M, Moran MS,
Goodrich DC, Kerr YH (2012) Validation of soil moisture and ocean salinity (SMOS) soil
moisture over watershed networks in the US. IEEE Trans Geosci Rem Sens 50(5):1530–1543
69. Cho E, Moon H, Choi M (2015) First assessment of the advanced microwave scanning
radiometer 2 (AMSR2) soil moisture contents in northeast Asia. J Meteorol Soc Jpn Ser II
93(1):117–129
70. McNairn H, Jackson TJ, Wiseman G, Belair S, Berg A, Bullock P, Colliander A, Cosh MH,
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and ground measurements in eastern China. Int J Remote Sens 28(6):1413–1418
50. Van D, Engman E (1985) Partial area hydrology and remote sensing. J Hydrol 81(3):211–251
51. Schmugge T (1978) Remote sensing of surface soil moisture. J Appl Meteorol
17(10):1549–1557
52. Carlson TN, Gillies RR, Perry EM (1994) A method to make use of thermal infrared
temperature and NDVI measurements to infer surface soil water content and fractional
vegetation cover. Remote Sens Rev 9(1–2):161–173
53. Gillies R, Kustas W, Humes K (1997) A verification of the 'triangle' method for obtaining
surface soil water content and energy fluxes from remote measurements of the normalized
difference vegetation index (NDVI) and surface e. Int J Remote Sens 18(15):3145–3166
54. Czajkowski KP, Goward SN, Stadler SJ, Walz A (2000) Thermal remote sensing of
near surface environmental variables: application over the Oklahoma Mesonet. Prof Geogr
52(2):345–357
55. Smith R, Choudhury B (1991) Analysis of normalized difference and surface temperature
observations over southeastern Australia. Remote Sens (Basel) 12(10):2021–2044
56. Dobson MC, Ulaby FT, Hallikainen MT, El-Rayes MA (1985) Microwave dielectric behavior
of wet soil-part II: dielectric mixing models. IEEE Trans Geosci Rem Sens GE-23(1):35–46
57. Njoku EG, Kong JA (1977) Theory for passive microwave remote sensing of near-surface
soil moisture. J Geophys Res 82(20):3108–3118
58. Kerr YH, Waldteufel P, Wigneron J-P, Martinuzzi J, Font J, Berger M (2001) Soil moisture
retrieval from space: the soil moisture and ocean salinity (SMOS) mission. IEEE Trans Geosci
Rem Sens 39(8):1729–1735
59. Entekhabi D, Njoku EG, Neill PE, Kellogg KH, Crow WT, Edelstein WN, Entin JK, Goodman
SD, Jackson TJ, Johnson J (2010) The soil moisture active passive (SMAP) mission. Proc
IEEE 98(5):704–716
60. Paloscia S, Macelloni G, Santi E, Koike T (2001) A multifrequency
algorithm for the retrieval of soil moisture on a large scale using microwave data from SMMR
and SSM/I satellites. IEEE Trans Geosci Remote Sens 39(8):1655–1661
61. Njoku EG, Jackson TJ, Lakshmi V, Chan TK, Nghiem SV (2003) Soil moisture retrieval from
AMSR-E. IEEE Trans Geosci Rem Sens 41(2):215–229
62. Wagner W, Hahn S, Kidd R, Melzer T, Bartalis Z, Hasenauer S, Figa-Saldaña J, de Rosnay P,
Jann A, Schneider S (2013) The ASCAT soil moisture product: a review of its specifications,
validation results, and emerging applications. Meteorol Z 22(1):5–33
63. ESA (2009) ESA space in images, SMOS IN ORBIT. http://www.esa.int/spaceinimages/
Images/2009/09/SMOS_in_orbit3
64. Bindlish R, Jackson T, Cosh M, Zhao T, O'neill P (2015) Global soil moisture from the
Aquarius/SAC-D satellite: description and initial assessment. IEEE Geosci Remote Sens Lett
12(5):923–927
65. NASA (2015) NASA opens social media accreditation for SMAP mission launch. http://www.
nasa.gov/smap-nasasocial
66. Wagner W, Naeimi V, Scipal K, de Jeu R, Martínez-Fernández J (2007) Soil moisture from
operational meteorological satellites. Hydrgeol J 15(1):121–131
67. Bartalis Z, Wagner W, Naeimi V, Hasenauer S, Scipal K, Bonekamp H, Figa J, Anderson C
(2007) Initial soil moisture retrievals from the METOP-A advanced scatterometer (ASCAT).
Geophys Res Lett 34(20)
68. Jackson TJ, Bindlish R, Cosh MH, Zhao T, Starks PJ, Bosch DD, Seyfried M, Moran MS,
Goodrich DC, Kerr YH (2012) Validation of soil moisture and ocean salinity (SMOS) soil
moisture over watershed networks in the US. IEEE Trans Geosci Rem Sens 50(5):1530–1543
69. Cho E, Moon H, Choi M (2015) First assessment of the advanced microwave scanning
radiometer 2 (AMSR2) soil moisture contents in northeast Asia. J Meteorol Soc Jpn Ser II
93(1):117–129
70. McNairn H, Jackson TJ, Wiseman G, Belair S, Berg A, Bullock P, Colliander A, Cosh MH,
Kim S-B, Magagi R (2015) The soil moisture active passive validation experiment 2012
278
L. Zhuo