R.A.M. de Jeu

TL;DR: In this paper, a satellite-sensor-based approach is proposed to estimate daily evaporation at a global scale and 0.25 degree spatial resolution using the Priestley and Taylor (PT) model.

TL;DR: The methodology uses a radiative transfer model to solve for surface soil moisture and vegetation optical depth simultaneously using a nonlinear iterative optimization procedure and does not require any field observations of soil moisture or canopy biophysical properties for calibration purposes and may be applied to other wavelengths.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors presented an approach for combining four passive microwave products from the VU University Amsterdam/National Aeronautics and Space Administration and two active microwave items from the Vienna University of Technology.

TL;DR: In this article, the retrieval characteristics of passive (AMSR-E) and active (ASCAT) microwave satellite estimates are combined to produce an improved soil moisture product. But the results of the satellite-based passive and active microwave sensors have the potential to offer improved estimates of surface soil moisture at global scale.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors evaluated the skill of a new, merged soil moisture product (ECV_SM) that has been developed in the framework of the European Space Agency's Water Cycle Multi-mission Observation Strategy and Climate Change Initiative projects.