Satellite Remote Sensing for Water Resources Management: Potential for Supporting Sustainable Development in Data-Poor Regions

Emerging trends in global freshwater availability

(2018) M. Rodell et al.   NATURE

Integrated groundwater resource management in Indus Basin using satellite gravimetry and physical modeling tools

(2017) Naveed Iqbal et al.   ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING AND ASSESSMENT

Joint Sentinel-1 and SMAP data assimilation to improve soil moisture estimates

(2017) H. Lievens et al.   GEOPHYSICAL RESEARCH LETTERS

Estimation of GRACE water storage components by temporal decomposition

(2017) Robert Andrew et al.   JOURNAL OF HYDROLOGY

Groundwater depletion embedded in international food trade

(2017) Carole Dalin et al.   NATURE

Extensive validation of CM SAF surface radiation products over Europe

(2017) Ruben Urraca et al.   REMOTE SENSING OF ENVIRONMENT

ESA CCI Soil Moisture for improved Earth system understanding: State-of-the art and future directions

(2017) Wouter Dorigo et al.   REMOTE SENSING OF ENVIRONMENT

A review of spatial downscaling of satellite remotely sensed soil moisture

(2017) Jian Peng et al.   REVIEWS OF GEOPHYSICS

Flood Forecasting and Decision Making in the new Millennium. Where are We?

(2017) Ezio Todini   WATER RESOURCES MANAGEMENT

Towards Adaptation of Water Resource Systems to Climatic and Socio-Economic Change

(2017) Enda O’Connell   WATER RESOURCES MANAGEMENT

Water and life from snow: A trillion dollar science question

(2017) Matthew Sturm et al.   WATER RESOURCES RESEARCH

Validation Analysis of SMAP and AMSR2 Soil Moisture Products over the United States Using Ground-Based Measurements

(2017) Xuefei Zhang et al.   Remote Sensing

Recent Advances in Soil Moisture Estimation from Remote Sensing

(2017) Jian Peng et al.   Water

Water stress in global transboundary river basins: significance of upstream water use on downstream stress

(2016) H Munia et al.   Environmental Research Letters

The Andes Cordillera. Part I: snow distribution, properties, and trends (1979-2014)

(2016) Sebastian H. Mernild et al.   INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF CLIMATOLOGY

Development and Analysis of a Long-Term, Global, Terrestrial Land Surface Temperature Dataset Based on HIRS Satellite Retrievals

(2016) Amanda L. Siemann et al.   JOURNAL OF CLIMATE

Hydrological monitoring and seasonal forecasting: Progress and perspectives

(2016) Qiuhong Tang et al.   Journal of Geographical Sciences

High-resolution mapping of global surface water and its long-term changes

(2016) Jean-François Pekel et al.   NATURE

Long-lead predictions of eastern United States hot days from Pacific sea surface temperatures

(2016) K. A. McKinnon et al.   Nature Geoscience

Impact of the Syrian refugee crisis on land use and transboundary freshwater resources

(2016) Marc François Müller et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

On Creating Global Gridded Terrestrial Water Budget Estimates from Satellite Remote Sensing

(2016) Yu Zhang et al.   SURVEYS IN GEOPHYSICS

Real-time estimation of snow water equivalent in the Upper Colorado River Basin using MODIS-based SWE Reconstructions and SNOTEL data

(2016) Dominik Schneider et al.   WATER RESOURCES RESEARCH

An intercomparison of remote sensing river discharge estimation algorithms from measurements of river height, width, and slope

(2016) M. Durand et al.   WATER RESOURCES RESEARCH

Assimilation of gridded terrestrial water storage observations from GRACE into a land surface model

(2016) Manuela Girotto et al.   WATER RESOURCES RESEARCH

Spatial downscaling of precipitation using adaptable random forests

(2016) Xiaogang He et al.   WATER RESOURCES RESEARCH

Improving Streamflow Prediction Using Remotely-Sensed Soil Moisture and Snow Depth

(2016) Haishen Lü et al.   Remote Sensing

A New Operational Snow Retrieval Algorithm Applied to Historical AMSR-E Brightness Temperatures

(2016) Marco Tedesco et al.   Remote Sensing

Seasonal Forecasting of Global Hydrologic Extremes: System Development and Evaluation over GEWEX Basins

(2015) Xing Yuan et al.   BULLETIN OF THE AMERICAN METEOROLOGICAL SOCIETY

Improving the monitoring of crop productivity using spaceborne solar-induced fluorescence

(2015) Kaiyu Guan et al.   GLOBAL CHANGE BIOLOGY

Changing mechanism of global water scarcity events: Impacts of socioeconomic changes and inter-annual hydro-climatic variability

(2015) Ted I.E. Veldkamp et al.   GLOBAL ENVIRONMENTAL CHANGE-HUMAN AND POLICY DIMENSIONS

Photosynthetic seasonality of global tropical forests constrained by hydroclimate

(2015) Kaiyu Guan et al.   Nature Geoscience

An introduction to the NASA Hyperspectral InfraRed Imager (HyspIRI) mission and preparatory activities

(2015) Christine M. Lee et al.   REMOTE SENSING OF ENVIRONMENT

The SWOT Mission and Its Capabilities for Land Hydrology

(2015) Sylvain Biancamaria et al.   SURVEYS IN GEOPHYSICS

What Can be Expected from the GRACE-FO Laser Ranging Interferometer for Earth Science Applications?

(2015) Frank Flechtner et al.   SURVEYS IN GEOPHYSICS

SWOT data assimilation for operational reservoir management on the upper Niger River Basin

(2015) S. Munier et al.   WATER RESOURCES RESEARCH

Inroads of remote sensing into hydrologic science during the WRR era

(2015) Dennis P. Lettenmaier et al.   WATER RESOURCES RESEARCH

Toward Sentinel-2 High Resolution Remote Sensing of Suspended Particulate Matter in Very Turbid Waters: SPOT4 (Take5) Experiment in the Loire and Gironde Estuaries

(2015) Pierre Gernez et al.   Remote Sensing

The EnMAP Spaceborne Imaging Spectroscopy Mission for Earth Observation

(2015) Luis Guanter et al.   Remote Sensing

Pollution and its Impacts on the South American Cryosphere

(2015) Luisa T. Molina et al.   Earths Future

The climate hazards infrared precipitation with stations—a new environmental record for monitoring extremes

(2015) Chris Funk et al.   Scientific Data

The Role of Latin America’s Land and Water Resources for Global Food Security: Environmental Trade-Offs of Future Food Production Pathways

(2015) Insa Flachsbarth et al.   PLoS One

Multi-site evaluation of terrestrial evaporation models using FLUXNET data

(2014) A. Ershadi et al.   AGRICULTURAL AND FOREST METEOROLOGY

Skillful long-range prediction of European and North American winters

(2014) A. A. Scaife et al.   GEOPHYSICAL RESEARCH LETTERS

Development of a High-Resolution Gridded Daily Meteorological Dataset over Sub-Saharan Africa: Spatial Analysis of Trends in Climate Extremes

(2014) Nathaniel W. Chaney et al.   JOURNAL OF CLIMATE

Assessing the potential global extent of SWOT river discharge observations

(2014) Tamlin M. Pavelsky et al.   JOURNAL OF HYDROLOGY

Assimilation of SMOS-derived soil moisture in a fully integrated hydrological and soil-vegetation-atmosphere transfer model in Western Denmark

(2014) Marc-Etienne Ridler et al.   WATER RESOURCES RESEARCH

Uncertainty in evapotranspiration from land surface modeling, remote sensing, and GRACE satellites

(2014) Di Long et al.   WATER RESOURCES RESEARCH

Surface Freshwater Storage Variations in the Orinoco Floodplains Using Multi-Satellite Observations

(2014) Frédéric Frappart et al.   Remote Sensing

A Non-Stationary 1981–2012 AVHRR NDVI3g Time Series

(2014) Jorge Pinzon et al.   Remote Sensing

Toward Global Drought Early Warning Capability: Expanding International Cooperation for the Development of a Framework for Monitoring and Forecasting

(2013) Will Pozzi et al.   BULLETIN OF THE AMERICAN METEOROLOGICAL SOCIETY

A Drought Monitoring and Forecasting System for Sub-Sahara African Water Resources and Food Security

(2013) Justin Sheffield et al.   BULLETIN OF THE AMERICAN METEOROLOGICAL SOCIETY

Barriers to adopting satellite remote sensing for water quality management

(2013) Blake A. Schaeffer et al.   INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF REMOTE SENSING

Understanding Prediction Skill of Seasonal Mean Precipitation over the Tropics

(2013) Arun Kumar et al.   JOURNAL OF CLIMATE

Water Management Applications for Satellite Precipitation Products: Synthesis and Recommendations

(2013) Aleix Serrat-Capdevila et al.   JOURNAL OF THE AMERICAN WATER RESOURCES ASSOCIATION

Operational Evapotranspiration Mapping Using Remote Sensing and Weather Datasets: A New Parameterization for the SSEB Approach

(2013) Gabriel B. Senay et al.   JOURNAL OF THE AMERICAN WATER RESOURCES ASSOCIATION

Upstream satellite remote sensing for river discharge forecasting: Application to major rivers in South Asia

(2013) Feyera A. Hirpa et al.   REMOTE SENSING OF ENVIRONMENT

Soil moisture mapping using Sentinel-1 images: Algorithm and preliminary validation

(2013) S. Paloscia et al.   REMOTE SENSING OF ENVIRONMENT

Improving soil moisture retrievals from a physically-based radiative transfer model

(2013) Ming Pan et al.   REMOTE SENSING OF ENVIRONMENT

Groundwater depletion in the Middle East from GRACE with implications for transboundary water management in the Tigris-Euphrates-Western Iran region

(2013) Katalyn A. Voss et al.   WATER RESOURCES RESEARCH

A data fusion approach for mapping daily evapotranspiration at field scale

(2013) C. Cammalleri et al.   WATER RESOURCES RESEARCH

Global flood risk under climate change

(2013) Yukiko Hirabayashi et al.   Nature Climate Change

Measuring water availability with limited ground data: assessing the feasibility of an entirely remote-sensing-based hydrologic budget of the Rufiji Basin, Tanzania, using TRMM, GRACE, MODIS, SRB, and AIRS

(2012) Daniel Erian Armanios et al.   HYDROLOGICAL PROCESSES

The SMOS Soil Moisture Retrieval Algorithm

(2012) Yann H. Kerr et al.   IEEE TRANSACTIONS ON GEOSCIENCE AND REMOTE SENSING

Remote estimation of crop and grass chlorophyll and nitrogen content using red-edge bands on Sentinel-2 and -3

(2012) J.G.P.W. Clevers et al.   International Journal of Applied Earth Observation and Geoinformation

An Overview of the Global Historical Climatology Network-Daily Database

(2012) Matthew J. Menne et al.   JOURNAL OF ATMOSPHERIC AND OCEANIC TECHNOLOGY

The Hydrological Cycle in Three State-of-the-Art Reanalyses: Intercomparison and Performance Analysis

(2012) Christof Lorenz et al.   JOURNAL OF HYDROMETEOROLOGY

Trend-preserving blending of passive and active microwave soil moisture retrievals

(2012) Y.Y. Liu et al.   REMOTE SENSING OF ENVIRONMENT

Use of Landsat thermal imagery in monitoring evapotranspiration and managing water resources

(2012) Martha C. Anderson et al.   REMOTE SENSING OF ENVIRONMENT

Sentinel-2: ESA's Optical High-Resolution Mission for GMES Operational Services

(2012) M. Drusch et al.   REMOTE SENSING OF ENVIRONMENT

Upscaling sparse ground-based soil moisture observations for the validation of coarse-resolution satellite soil moisture products

(2012) Wade T. Crow et al.   REVIEWS OF GEOPHYSICS

Global monitoring of large reservoir storage from satellite remote sensing

(2012) Huilin Gao et al.   WATER RESOURCES RESEARCH

Demonstration of a geostatistical approach to physically consistent downscaling of climate modeling simulations

(2012) Sanjeev Kumar Jha et al.   WATER RESOURCES RESEARCH

A review of global satellite-derived snow products

(2011) Allan Frei et al.   ADVANCES IN SPACE RESEARCH

Improving hydrologic predictions of a catchment model via assimilation of surface soil moisture

(2011) Fan Chen et al.   ADVANCES IN WATER RESOURCES

The Integrated Surface Database: Recent Developments and Partnerships

(2011) Adam Smith et al.   BULLETIN OF THE AMERICAN METEOROLOGICAL SOCIETY

Skill of Real-Time Seasonal ENSO Model Predictions during 2002–11: Is Our Capability Increasing?

(2011) Anthony G. Barnston et al.   BULLETIN OF THE AMERICAN METEOROLOGICAL SOCIETY

Forecasting transboundary river water elevations from space

(2011) S. Biancamaria et al.   GEOPHYSICAL RESEARCH LETTERS

New global observations of the terrestrial carbon cycle from GOSAT: Patterns of plant fluorescence with gross primary productivity

(2011) Christian Frankenberg et al.   GEOPHYSICAL RESEARCH LETTERS

Global long-term passive microwave satellite-based retrievals of vegetation optical depth

(2011) Yi Y. Liu et al.   GEOPHYSICAL RESEARCH LETTERS

Multi-model, multi-sensor estimates of global evapotranspiration: climatology, uncertainties and trends

(2011) Raghuveer K. Vinukollu et al.   HYDROLOGICAL PROCESSES

Assimilation of Surface- and Root-Zone ASCAT Soil Moisture Products Into Rainfall–Runoff Modeling

(2011) Luca Brocca et al.   IEEE TRANSACTIONS ON GEOSCIENCE AND REMOTE SENSING

MERRA: NASA’s Modern-Era Retrospective Analysis for Research and Applications

(2011) Michele M. Rienecker et al.   JOURNAL OF CLIMATE

Multisource Estimation of Long-Term Terrestrial Water Budget for Major Global River Basins

(2011) Ming Pan et al.   JOURNAL OF CLIMATE

The ERA-Interim reanalysis: configuration and performance of the data assimilation system

(2011) D. P. Dee et al.   QUARTERLY JOURNAL OF THE ROYAL METEOROLOGICAL SOCIETY

Reconciling the global terrestrial water budget using satellite remote sensing

(2011) Alok K. Sahoo et al.   REMOTE SENSING OF ENVIRONMENT

Improvements to a MODIS global terrestrial evapotranspiration algorithm

(2011) Qiaozhen Mu et al.   REMOTE SENSING OF ENVIRONMENT

The NCEP Climate Forecast System Reanalysis

(2010) Suranjana Saha et al.   BULLETIN OF THE AMERICAN METEOROLOGICAL SOCIETY

Estimating the water budget of major US river basins via remote sensing

(2010) Huilin Gao et al.   INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF REMOTE SENSING

Quantifying uncertainty in a remote sensing-based estimate of evapotranspiration over continental USA

(2010) Craig R. Ferguson et al.   INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF REMOTE SENSING

Evaluation of Drought Indices Based on Thermal Remote Sensing of Evapotranspiration over the Continental United States

(2010) Martha C. Anderson et al.   JOURNAL OF CLIMATE

Global canopy interception from satellite observations

(2010) Diego G. Miralles et al.   JOURNAL OF GEOPHYSICAL RESEARCH

The OSTM/Jason-2 Mission

(2010) Juliette Lambin et al.   MARINE GEODESY

The Soil Moisture Active Passive (SMAP) Mission

(2010) Dara Entekhabi et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE IEEE

Closing the terrestrial water budget from satellite remote sensing

(2009) Justin Sheffield et al.   GEOPHYSICAL RESEARCH LETTERS

Satellite-based estimates of groundwater depletion in India

(2009) Matthew Rodell et al.   NATURE

Interpretation of snow properties from imaging spectrometry

(2009) Jeff Dozier et al.   REMOTE SENSING OF ENVIRONMENT

Multisensor historical climatology of satellite-derived global land surface moisture

(2008) Manfred Owe et al.   JOURNAL OF GEOPHYSICAL RESEARCH

Assimilation of GRACE Terrestrial Water Storage Data into a Land Surface Model: Results for the Mississippi River Basin

(2008) Benjamin F. Zaitchik et al.   JOURNAL OF HYDROMETEOROLOGY

Estimating Land Surface Evaporation: A Review of Methods Using Remotely Sensed Surface Temperature Data

(2008) Jetse D. Kalma et al.   SURVEYS IN GEOPHYSICS

Global estimates of the land–atmosphere water flux based on monthly AVHRR and ISLSCP-II data, validated at 16 FLUXNET sites

(2007) Joshua B. Fisher et al.   REMOTE SENSING OF ENVIRONMENT