Roberto Fernandez-Moran

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors present a review of the significant progress which has been made over the last decade in this field of research with a focus on L-band, and a discussion on possible applications to the SMOS and SMAP soil moisture retrieval approaches.

TL;DR: An alternative SMOS product that was developed by INRA and CESBIO is presented, which is much simpler and does not account for corrections associated with the antenna pattern and the complex SMOS viewing angle geometry and considers pixels as homogeneous to avoid uncertainties and errors linked to inconsistent auxiliary datasets.

TL;DR: In this paper, the most recent microwave-based Soil moisture (SM) retrieval products available from NASA's (National Aeronautics and Space Administration) SMAP (Soil Moisture Active Passive) satellite, ESA's led mission (European Space Agency) SMOS-IC satellite, ASCAT (Advanced Scatterometer) sensor on board the meteorological operational (Metop) platforms Metop A and Metop B, and the ESA Climate Change Initiative (CCI) blended long-term SM time series.

TL;DR: Low-frequency L-band passive microwave observations are used to compute a direct and spatially explicit quantification of annual aboveground carbon (AGC) fluxes and show that the tropical net AGC budget was approximately in balance during 2010 to 2017.

TL;DR: In this article, the ability of several long-term passive microwave remote sensing indices to capture the live fuel moisture content (LFMC) temporal dynamic of various Mediterranean shrub species was assessed.