Integrating decades of research conducted by leading scientists in the field, Remote Sensing of Energy Fluxes and Soil Moisture Content provides an overview of state-of-the-art methods and modeling techniques employed for deriving spatio-temporal estimates of energy fluxes and soil surface moisture from remote sensing. It also underscores the range

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Table of contents
- Front Cover
- Contents
- Preface
- Acknowledgments
- Editor
- Contributors
- Chapter 1: Turbulent Fluxes of Heat and Moisture at the Earth’s Land Surface: Importance, Controlling Parameters, and Conventional Measurement Techniques
- Chapter 2: Surface Soil Moisture Estimation: Significance, Controls, and Conventional Measurement Techniques
- Chapter 3: Remote Sensing of Surface Turbulent Energy Fluxes
- Chapter 4: Satellite Remote Sensing of Surface Soil Moisture
- Chapter 5: Remote Sensing of the Land Surface Radiation Budget
- Chapter 6: A Comparative Study of Techniques for Modeling the Spatiotemporal Distribution of Heat and Moisture Fluxes at Different Agroecosystems in Brazil
- Chapter 7: Estimation of Land Surface Energy Fluxes from Remote Sensing Using One-Layer Modeling Approaches
- Chapter 8: Mapping Surface Fluxes and Moisture Conditions from Field to Global Scales Using ALEXI/DisALEXI
- Chapter 9: Spatiotemporal Estimation of Land Surface Evapotranspiration Rates from MODIS Data Based on a VI–Ts Approach
- Chapter 10: Global-Scale Estimation of Land Surface Heat Fluxes from Space: Product Assessment and Intercomparison
- Chapter 11: The Role of Scale in Determining Surface Energy Fluxes from Remote Sensing
- Chapter 12: Passive Microwave Remote Sensing Techniques for the Retrieval of Surface Soil Moisture from Space
- Chapter 13: Soil Moisture Retrieval from Synthetic Aperture Radar: Facing the Soil Roughness Parameterization Problem
- Chapter 14: On the Synergistic Use of Microwave and Infrared Satellite Observations to Monitor Soil Moisture and Flooding
- Chapter 15: On the Synergy between Optical and TIR Observations for the Retrieval of Soil Moisture Content: Exploring Different Approaches
- Chapter 16: Soil Moisture Remote Sensing and Data Assimilation
- Chapter 17: Scaling and Filtering Approaches for the Use of Satellite Soil Moisture Observations
- Chapter 18: Selection of Performance Metrics for Global Soil Moisture Products: The Case of ASCAT Product
- Chapter 19: Global-Scale Estimation of Land Surface Heat Fluxes from Space: Current Status, Opportunities, and Future Directions
- Chapter 20: Operations, Challenges, and Prospects of Satellite-Based Surface Soil Moisture Data Services
- Back Cover
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