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High-resolution rainfall estimates from satellite and reanalysis sources (SRE) could play a major role in improving climate services for agriculture. This is particularly relevant in regions that rely on rain-fed farming but lack a dense…

Atmospheric and Oceanic Physics · Physics 2026-03-18 Danny Parsons , David Stern , Denis Ndanguza , Mouhamadou Bamba Sylla , James Musyoka , John Bagiliko , Graham Clarkson , Peter Dorward

Traditional soil sampling and analysis methods are labor-intensive, time-consuming, and limited in spatial resolution, making them unsuitable for large-scale precision agriculture. To address these limitations, we present a robotic solution…

Soil moisture (SM) plays a critical role in hydrological and meteorological processes. High-resolution SM can be obtained by combining coarse passive microwave data with fine-scale auxiliary variables. However, the inversion of SM at the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-10-14 Ziyu Zhou , Keyan Hu , Ling Zhang , Zhaohui Xue , Yutian Fang , Yusha Zheng

Surface displacements associated with the average subsidence due to hydrocarbon exploitation in southwest of Iran which has a long history in oil production, can lead to significant damages to surface and subsurface structures, and requires…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-03-23 Sarah Narges Fatholahi , Hongjie He , Lanying Wang , Awase Syed , Jonathan Li

Interferometric Synthetic Aperture Radar (InSAR) is a powerful tool for monitoring surface deformation with high precision. However, low Signal-to-Noise Ratio (SNR) conditions, common in regions with low backscatter, can degrade phase…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-12-10 Emre Havazli , Shadi Oveisgharan , Michael Denbina , Brian Hawkins

High-resolution soil moisture (SM) observations are critical for agricultural monitoring, forestry management, and hazard prediction, yet current satellite passive microwave missions cannot directly provide retrievals at tens-of-meter…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-01-27 Runze Zhang , Ishfaq Aziz , Derek Houtz , Yuxiang Zhao , Trent W. Ford , Adam C. Watts , Mohamad Alipour

SMOS (Soil Moisture and Ocean Salinity), is the second mission of 'Earth Explorer' to be developed within the program 'Living Planet' of the European Space Agency (ESA). This satellite, containing the very first 1.4GHz interferometric…

Soil moisture is a quantity of interest in many application areas including agriculture and climate modeling. Existing methods are not suitable for scale applications due to large deployment costs in high-resolution sensing applications…

Soil moisture (SM) is a key state variable of the hydrological cycle, needed to monitor the effects of a changing climate on natural resources. Soil moisture is highly variable in space and time, presenting seasonalities, anomalies and…

Atmospheric and Oceanic Physics · Physics 2020-12-10 Diego Bueso , Maria Piles , Gustau Camps-Valls

In this study, a novel machine learning algorithm is presented for disaggregation of satellite soil moisture (SM) based on self-regularized regressive models (SRRM) using high-resolution correlated information from auxiliary sources. It…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2016-07-19 Subit Chakrabarti , Jasmeet Judge , Anand Rangarajan , Sanjay Ranka

Multipass SAR interferometry (InSAR) techniques based on meter-resolution spaceborne SAR satellites, such as TerraSAR-X or COSMO-Skymed, provide 3D reconstruction and the measurement of ground displacement over large urban areas.…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-08-26 Jian Kang , Yuanyuan Wang , Xiao Xiang Zhu

The paper introduces a novel approach for estimating soil moisture in vegetated surfaces, specifically focusing on sugarcane crops throughout various growth stages in agriculture applications. While existing models typically address bare…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-12-17 Gian Oré , Jhonnatan Yepes , Juliana A. Góes , Luciano P. Oliveira , Bárbara Teruel , Hugo E. Hernandez-Figueroa

Over the past decade, Interferometric Synthetic Aperture Radar (InSAR) has become a successful remote sensing technique. However, during the acquisition step, microwave reflections received at satellite are usually disturbed by strong…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-05-28 Xinyao Sun , Aaron Zimmer , Subhayan Mukherjee , Navaneeth Kamballur Kottayil , Parwant Ghuman , Irene Cheng

The main objective of this study is to combine remote sensing and machine learning to detect soil moisture content. Growing population and food consumption has led to the need to improve agricultural yield and to reduce wastage of natural…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2019-07-09 Natalia Efremova , Dmitry Zausaev , Gleb Antipov

The integration of unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) with radar imaging sensors has revolutionized the monitoring of dynamic and local Earth surface processes by enabling high-resolution and cost-effective remote sensing. This paper…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-10-07 Mohamed-Amine Lahmeri , Pouya Fakharizadeh , Víctor Mustieles-Pérez , Martin Vossiek , Gerhard Krieger , Robert Schober

Soil moisture impacts exchanges of water, energy and carbon fluxes between the land surface and the atmosphere. Passive microwave remote sensing at L-band can capture spatial and temporal patterns of soil moisture in the landscape. Both ESA…

This paper presents InsSo3D, an accurate and efficient method for large-scale 3D Simultaneous Localisation and Mapping (SLAM) using a 3D Sonar and an Inertial Navigation System (INS). Unlike traditional sonar, which produces 2D images…

In this contribution, we investigate the potential of hyperspectral data combined with either simulated ground penetrating radar (GPR) or simulated (sensor-like) soil-moisture data to estimate soil moisture. We propose two simulation…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-07-02 Felix M. Riese , Sina Keller

This paper introduces a novel scheme to progressively estimate interferometric phases from a stack of synthetic aperture radar (SAR) images. The scheme is shown to yield comparable performance to full-covariance algorithms for a realistic…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-10-07 Francesco De Zan

Sentinel-1, the Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR) mission operated by the European Space Agency (ESA) as part of the Copernicus program, provides Free and Open Data with global coverage, transforming our ability to monitor subtle changes in…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-07-28 Manoochehr Shirzaei