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Satellite Soil Moisture Retrieval Satellite Soil Moisture Retrieval Techniques and Applications Edited by Prashant K. Srivastava NASA GoddardSpaceFlightCenter,USA and Institute of Environment and Sustainable Development, Banaras Hindu University,India George P. Petropoulos Geography &Earth Sciences Aberystwyth University Aberystwyth, SY23 3DB Wales,UK Yann H. Kerr CESBIO Toulouse, France AMSTERDAM (cid:129) BOSTON (cid:129) HEIDELBERG (cid:129) LONDON (cid:129) NEW YORK (cid:129) OXFORD PARIS (cid:129) SAN DIEGO (cid:129) SAN FRANCISCO (cid:129) SINGAPORE (cid:129) SYDNEY (cid:129) TOKYO Elsevier Radarweg29,POBox211,1000AEAmsterdam,Netherlands TheBoulevard,LangfordLane,Kidlington,OxfordOX51GB,UK 50HampshireStreet,5thFloor,Cambridge,MA02139,USA Copyright©2016ElsevierInc.Allrightsreserved. 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Srivastava Idedicatethisbooktomyparents,PanagiotisandEvgenia,fortheircontinuing love and supportin allthe endeavors ofmy life —George P. Petropoulos Iwouldliketodedicatethisbooktomywifeandchildrenfortheirpatienceand understanding as well astomy colleaguesfor their significantcontributions —Yann H.Kerr v List of Contributors Numbersinparenthesisindicatethepagesonwhichtheauthors’contributionsbegin. R. Akbar (187), Ming Hsieh Department of Electrical Engineering, University of Southern California,Los Angeles, CA A.Al Bitar(3,351),Centre d’E(cid:1)tudesSpatiales de laBiosph(cid:3)ere, Toulouse, France V.Anagnostopoulos(91),NationalTechnicalUniversityofAthens;InfoCosmosLtd, Athens, Greece B. Barrett (209),UniversityCollege Cork(UCC),Cork, Ireland A.Berg (47),Universityof Guelph,Guelph, ON,Canada N.Berni (231),CivilProtection Centre, Foligno, Italy L.Brocca(231,351),NationalResearchCouncil;ResearchInstituteforGeo-Hydrological Protection,NationalResearchCouncil,Perugia,Italy D. Chaparro (249), Universitat Polit(cid:3)ecnica de Catalunya, IEEC/UPC; Barcelona Expert Center, Instituteof MarineSciences, CSIC,Barcelona, Spain L. Ciabatta (231), NationalResearch Council, Perugia,Italy Q. Dai (289),NanjingNormal University, Nanjing, China N.Das (187),NASA/Jet PropulsionLaboratory (JPL),Pasadena, CA E. DeWitte (379), AirbusDefence andSpace Ltd,Stevenage,United Kingdom E.Dwyer(209),EurOcean—EuropeanCentreforInformationonMarineScienceand Technology, Lisbon,Portugal D. Entekhabi (187), Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Massachusetts Instituteof Technology, Cambridge,MA F. Gerard (379),Centre forEcology& Hydrology,Wallingford, UnitedKingdom N.Ghilain (309),Royal Meteorological Instituteof Belgium,Brussels,Belgium H. Griffiths (91), Department of Geography & Earth Sciences, Ceredigion, Wales, United Kingdom A.Gruber (209),Vienna University ofTechnology, Vienna,Austria D.K.Gupta (159,333),Indian Instituteof Technology(BHU), Varanasi,India M. Gupta (29, 271, 333), NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, MD, United States D.Han (289),Universityof Bristol,Bristol, United Kingdom xvii xviii ListofContributors C.Hodges (91),GeoSmartDecisions Ltd,Llanidloes, Powys,United Kingdom M. Holzman (73), Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Cient´ıficas y T(cid:1)ecnicas – InstitutodeHidrolog´ıadeLlanuras“Dr.EduardoJ.Usunoff”,Rep.Italia780,Azul, BuenosAires, Argentina G. Ireland (91), Department of Geography & Earth Sciences, Ceredigion, Wales, UnitedKingdom T. Islam (29, 91, 159, 271, 289, 333), NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory; California InstituteofTechnology, Pasadena, CA,United States J.C.Jime(cid:1)nez-Mun˜oz(135),Universitat de Val(cid:3)encia,Valencia, Spain D.Kalivas (91), AgriculturalUniversity ofAthens,Athens, Greece Y.H.Kerr(3),Centre d’E(cid:1)tudesSpatiales delaBiosph(cid:3)ere,Toulouse, France C.Mattar (135),University ofChile, Santiago,RM, Chile A.Mialon(3),Centre d’E(cid:1)tudesSpatiales de laBiosph(cid:3)ere, Toulouse, France V.Mironov (169),KirenskyInstituteof Physics, Krasnoyarsk, Russia M.Moghaddam(187),MingHsiehDepartmentofElectricalEngineering,University ofSouthernCalifornia, Los Angeles, CA T.Moramarco (231),National Research Council, Perugia,Italy J. Mun˜oz-Sabater (351), European Centre for Medium Range Weather Forecasts, Reading, UnitedKingdom V.Pandey (29),Banaras HinduUniversity, Banaras, India A.Petrie (379),Centre forEcology &Hydrology,Wallingford, United Kingdom G.P.Petropoulos(91,333),DepartmentofGeography&EarthSciences,Ceredigion, Wales, UnitedKingdom M. Piles (109, 249), Universitat Polit(cid:3)ecnica de Catalunya, IEEC/UPC; Barcelona Expert Center,Instituteof MarineSciences, CSIC,Barcelona, Spain F.Ponziani(231),Civil Protection Centre,Foligno, Italy R.Prasad (159, 333),Indian InstituteofTechnology (BHU),Varanasi, India C.Pratola (209),University College Cork(UCC),Cork,Ireland P.Rahimzadeh-Bajgiran (47),Universityof Maine,Orono, ME,United States R. Rivas (73), Comisio´n de Investigaciones Cient´ıficas de la provincia de Buenos Aires – Instituto de Hidrolog´ıa de Llanuras “Dr. Eduardo J. Usunoff”, Campus Universitario, Tandil,BuenosAires, Argentina A.Santamar´ıa-Artigas(135),University ofChile, Santiago,RM, Chile I.Savin(169), KirenskyInstituteof Physics, Krasnoyarsk, Russia S.K.Singh(333),University ofAllahabad, Allahabad,India N.Sa´nchez (109),University ofSalamanca/CIALE, Villamayor,Spain J.A.Sobrino(135),Universitat deVal(cid:3)encia, Valencia, Spain ListofContributors xix P.K. Srivastava (3, 29, 91, 159, 271, 333), NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, MD,United States; Banaras HinduUniversity, Banaras, India S. Suman(29),Banaras Hindu University,Banaras, India E. Tebbs (379), King’s College London, Department of Geography, Strand, London, United Kingdom M. Vall-llossera (249), Universitat Polit(cid:3)ecnica de Catalunya, IEEC/UPC; Barcelona Expert Center, Instituteof MarineSciences, CSIC,Barcelona, Spain W. Wagner (231), ViennaUniversity ofTechnology, Vienna,Austria W.Z. WanJaafar(333),University ofMalaya,Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia J.-P. Wigneron (3),INRAISPA,Bordeaux,France L. Zhuo (289),Universityof Bristol,Bristol, UnitedKingdom Author Biographies PrashantK.Srivastavaispresentlyworking in Hydrological Sciences, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center on SMAP satellite soil moisture retrieval algorithm development, instrumentation, and simulation for various applications,andaffiliatedwithIESD,Bana- rasHinduUniversityasafaculty.Hereceived his PhD degree from Department of Civil Engineering, University of Bristol, Bristol, UK. His primary research focuses on the use of optical and microwave satellite syn- ergywithWeatherResearchandForecasting for hydrological applications. He is also a working group partner with NASA JPL on SMAP soil moisture calibration and valida- tion.HehasbeenarecipientofseveralawardssuchasUniversityofMaryland Fellowship, USA; Commonwealth Fellowship, UK; CSIR-UGC-JRF-NET (2005), CSIR-JRF-NET (2006), University Grant Commission (UGC)-NET (2006),andMinistryofHumanResourceDevelopmentfellowshipsfromIndia. He has 100+ publications in peer-reviewed journals, published 4 books with reputed publishing houses such as Springer, Taylor and Francis, and Elsevier andpublishedseveralbookchapters.Heisalsoactingaseditoroffewjournals and is currently a member of Indian Society of Geomatics, Indian Society of RemoteSensing,IndianAssociationofHydrologists(IAH),InternationalSoci- etyforAgrometeorology(INSAM),InternationalAssociationofHydrological Sciences (IAHS),and few others. xxi xxii AuthorBiographies GeorgeP.Petropoulosisaseniorlecturerin Remote Sensing&GISat AberystwythUni- versity,UK.Hecompletedhisgraduatestud- ies(MSc,PhD)attheUniversityofLondonin 2008,specializinginEarthObservation(EO) Modelling.HisPhDwasfocusingspecifically in the retrievals of energy fluxes and soil moisturefromthesynergyofopticalEOdata with simulation process models. Petropoulos’ research focuseson exploit- ingEOdataaloneorsynergisticallywithland surface process models for computing key statevariablesoftheEarth’senergyandwater budget,includingenergyfluxes andsoilsur- facemoisture.Heisalsoconductingresearch ontheapplicationofremotesensingtechnologytolandcovermappingandits changes occurred from either anthropogenic activities or geohazards (mainly floods, wildfires, frost). In this framework, he contributes to the development of open source software tools in EO modelling and develops and implements all-inclusive benchmarking approaches to either EO operational algorithms/ products or surface processmodels, including advanced sensitivity analysis. Petropoulos serves as a Council member of the Remote Sensing & Photo- grammetricSociety(RSPSoC),EditorialBoardmemberonseveralinternational peer-reviewed scientific journals in EO and environmental modelling, and as a reviewer for various funding bodies (including the European Commission). Heiseditor/co-editorof2books,author/co-authorof+50peer-reviewedjournal articlesandof+90internationalconferences.Hehasdevelopedfruitfulcollab- orationswithkeyscientistsinhisareaofspecializationglobally,andhisresearch worksofarhasreceivedinternationalrecognitionviaseveralnoteworthyawards hehasobtained. AuthorBiographies xxiii Yann H. Kerr received the engineering degree from Ecole Nationale Sup(cid:1)erieure de l’A(cid:1)eronautiqueetdel’Espace,theMScdegree in electronics and electrical engineering from Glasgow University, Glasgow, Scotland, UK, and the PhD degree in Astrophysique G(cid:1)eo- physique et Techniques Spatiales, Universit(cid:1)e Paul Sabatier, Toulouse, France. Affiliated to the French space agency (CNES) since 1980, he joined LERTS in 1985; for which he was director in 1993–94. He spent 19 months at JPL,Pasadena,in1987–88.Hehasbeenwork- ing at CESBIO since 1995 asdeputydirector (1995–99)anddirector(2007–16). Hisfieldsofinterestareinthetheoryand techniques for microwave and thermal infrared remote sensing of the Earth, with emphasis on hydrology, water resources management, and vegetation monitoring. HewasanEOSprincipalinvestigator(interdisciplinaryinvestigations),and PIandprecursoroftheuseoftheSCAToverland.In1989,hestartedtoworkon theinterferometricconceptappliedtopassivemicrowaveearthobservationand wassubsequentlythescienceleadontheMIRASforESA.Heisamemberof theSMAPScienceTeam.In1997,hefirstproposedthenaturaloutcomeofthe previousMIRASworkwithwhatwastobecometheSMOSMissionselectedby ESAin1999withhimastheSMOSmissionlead-investigatorandchairofthe ScienceAdvisoryGroup.HehasorganizedalltheSMOSworkshopsandwas guesteditorontwoIEEEandoneRSEspecialissues.Heisalsoworkingonthe SMOS-Next concept. He received the World Meteorological Organization 1st prize (Norbert Gerbier), the USDA Secretary’steamaward for excellence (SalsaProgram),theGRSScertificateofrecognitionforleadershipindevelop- mentofthefirstsyntheticaperturemicrowaveradiometerinspaceandsuccess of the SMOS mission, andthe ESA team award.
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