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Soil Moisture and Remote Sensing

Last updated July 7, 2026

Rising Stars

New and hot

Rising Stars Researchers

1
Muhammad Aslam
Unknown
2
Adugna Mullissa
Wageningen University & Research
3
Narayanarao Bhogapurapu
California Institute of Technology
4
Ahmed Samir Abowarda
Ministry of Water Resources and Irrigation
5
Bhuwan Kashyap
Skyworks Solutions (United States)
6
Xiangjin Meng
Chinese Academy of Sciences
7
Limin Yu
China Agricultural University
8
Arsenios Tsokas
University of Florida
9
Nitin K. Singh
Auburn University
10
Yongwei Fu
North Carolina State University

Rising Stars Papers

1
High-resolution soil moisture mapping through passive microwave remote sensing downscaling
The Innovation Geoscience|2024
25 cit.
2
LUCA: A Sentinel-1 SAR-Based Global Forest Land Use Change Alert
Remote Sensing|2024
18 cit.
3
Validation and expansion of the soil moisture index for assessing soil moisture dynamics from AMSR2 brightness temperature
Remote Sensing of Environment|2024
13 cit.
4
A New InSAR Temporal Decorrelation Model for Seasonal Vegetation Change With Dense Time-Series Data
IEEE Geoscience and Remote Sensing Letters|2024
7 cit.
5
Estimating soil water retention curves over the entire saturation range: A thermal conductivity-based approach
Journal of Hydrology|2024
4 cit.
6
Neural network estimation of thermal conductivity across full saturation for various soil types
Computers and Electronics in Agriculture|2025
3 cit.
7
Common fixed point theorems on extended b-metric space using rational-type contraction
Fixed Point Theory and Algorithms for Sciences and Engineering|2025
3 cit.
8
A Hybrid Method for Temporal Normalization of Land Surface Temperature Under All-Sky Conditions
IEEE Journal of Selected Topics in Applied Earth Observations and Remote Sensing|2024
2 cit.
9
Modeling the Nonlinear–To–Linear Relationship Between Bulk and Pore Water Electrical Conductivity in Saturated Porous Media Using a Padé Approximant
Water Resources Research|2024
2 cit.
10
Unraveling the causal influences of drought and crop production on groundwater levels across the contiguous United States
PNAS Nexus|2025
1 cit.

Emerging Leaders

Gaining momentum

Emerging Leaders Researchers

1
Robin van der Schalie
Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam
2
Hans Lievens
Ghent University
3
Wenjun Ji
Shandong Academy of Agricultural Sciences
4
Isabella Pfeil
Environment Agency Austria
5
Aizhong Hou
Ministry of Water Resources of the People's Republic of China
6
Paolo Filippucci
Research Institute for Geo-Hydrological Protection
7
Luca Zappa
Environment Agency Austria
8
Wenzhi Zeng
Guizhou Aerospace Power Science & Tech (China)
9
Wolfgang Preimesberger
TU Wien
10
Alexandra G. Konings
Stanford University

Emerging Leaders Papers

1
Evapotranspiration frequently increases during droughts
Nature Climate Change|2022
247 cit.
2
Sentinel-1 snow depth retrieval at sub-kilometer resolution over the European Alps
˜The œcryosphere|2022
181 cit.
3
Free radicals trigger the closure of open pores in lignin-derived hard carbons toward improved sodium-storage capacity
Journal of Energy Chemistry|2024
84 cit.
4
Plant-water sensitivity regulates wildfire vulnerability
Nature Ecology & Evolution|2022
69 cit.
5
How accurately can we retrieve irrigation timing and water amounts from (satellite) soil moisture?
International Journal of Applied Earth Observation and Geoinformation|2022
61 cit.
6
Sentinel-2 high-resolution data for river discharge monitoring
Remote Sensing of Environment|2022
44 cit.
7
Dry Live Fuels Increase the Likelihood of Lightning‐Caused Fires
Geophysical Research Letters|2023
42 cit.
8
High-resolution (1 km) satellite rainfall estimation from SM2RAIN applied to Sentinel-1: Po River basin as a case study
Hydrology and earth system sciences|2022
32 cit.
9
Satellite‐Observed Vegetation Responses to Intraseasonal Precipitation Variability
Geophysical Research Letters|2022
28 cit.
10
Benefits and pitfalls of irrigation timing and water amounts derived from satellite soil moisture
Agricultural Water Management|2024
27 cit.

Current Senior Leaders

Established & currently active

Current Senior Leaders Researchers

1
F. Rocca
Politecnico di Milano
2
Wolfgang Wagner
RWTH Aachen University
3
Harry Vereecken
Forschungszentrum Jülich
4
A. P. Annan
Canadian Criminal Justice Association
5
Yann H. Kerr
Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique
6
Thomas J. Jackson
Center For Remote Sensing (United States)
7
Dara Entekhabi
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
8
E. Sansosti
National Research Council
9
Jean‐Pierre Wigneron
Université de Bordeaux
10
Eric F. Wood
Cornell University

Current Senior Leaders Papers

1
Present and future Köppen-Geiger climate classification maps at 1-km resolution
Scientific Data|2018
6.5k cit.
2
Permanent scatterers in SAR interferometry
IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing|2001
5.4k cit.
3
Electromagnetic determination of soil water content: Measurements in coaxial transmission lines
Water Resources Research|1980
5.2k cit.
4
A new algorithm for surface deformation monitoring based on small baseline differential SAR interferograms
IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing|2002
5.1k cit.
5
The IAPWS Formulation 1995 for the Thermodynamic Properties of Ordinary Water Substance for General and Scientific Use
Journal of Physical and Chemical Reference Data|2002
4.8k cit.
6
The Soil Moisture Active Passive (SMAP) Mission
Proceedings of the IEEE|2010
3.7k cit.
7
Nonlinear subsidence rate estimation using permanent scatterers in differential SAR interferometry
IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing|2000
2.5k cit.
8
Development of a 50-Year High-Resolution Global Dataset of Meteorological Forcings for Land Surface Modeling
Journal of Climate|2006
2.1k cit.
9
The SMOS Mission: New Tool for Monitoring Key Elements ofthe Global Water Cycle
Proceedings of the IEEE|2010
2k cit.
10
GROUND‐PENETRATING RADAR FOR HIGH‐RESOLUTION MAPPING OF SOIL AND ROCK STRATIGRAPHY<sup>1</sup>
Geophysical Prospecting|1989
1.9k cit.

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