Remotely sensed high-resolution soil moisture and evapotranspiration: bridging the gap between science and society

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cg.contributor.affiliationUniversity of Wisconsin‐Madisonen
cg.contributor.affiliationLouisiana State Universityen
cg.contributor.affiliationUniversity of Texas at El Pasoen
cg.contributor.affiliationNational Research Council, Research Institute for Geo‐Hydrological Protection, Italyen
cg.contributor.affiliationClaremont McKenna Collegeen
cg.contributor.affiliationUniversity of Connecticuten
cg.contributor.affiliationUniversity of Montanaen
cg.contributor.affiliationMurray State Universityen
cg.contributor.affiliationPacific Northwest National Laboratoryen
cg.contributor.affiliationInternational Water Management Instituteen
cg.contributor.affiliationMorehead State Universityen
cg.contributor.affiliationUtrecht Universityen
cg.contributor.affiliationUniversity of Hong Kongen
cg.contributor.affiliationOak Ridge National Laboratoryen
cg.contributor.affiliationUniversity of Californiaen
cg.contributor.affiliationUniversity of Tennesseeen
cg.contributor.affiliationChapman Universityen
cg.contributor.donorUSDA Agriculture and Food Research Initiative Foundational Programen
cg.contributor.donorUniversity of Wisconsin‐Madisonen
cg.contributor.donorLouisiana Agricultural Experiment Stationen
cg.contributor.donorHatch Program of USDA‐NIFAen
cg.contributor.donorUSDA‐ NRCS Granten
cg.contributor.donorNASA's ECOSTRESS Science and Applications Teamen
cg.contributor.donorNASA's Earth Science Applications: Water Resourcesen
cg.contributor.donorNASA Kentucky EPSCORen
cg.contributor.donorDOE (Environmental System Science: DE‐SC0022228)en
cg.contributor.donorNSF (MRI: 2215877 and EPSCoR Fellowship: 2327374)en
cg.contributor.donorUS Department of Energy (DOE) Office of Scienceen
cg.contributor.donorSoil Moisture Working Group supported by ORNL RUBISCO SFAen
cg.contributor.donorEuropean Unionen
cg.contributor.donorItalian Department of Civil Protectionen
cg.contributor.donorEuropean Space Agency project DTE Hydrology Evolutionen
cg.contributor.donorNational Science Foundation (NSF) CAREERen
cg.contributor.donorNational Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) Cooperative Science Center Educational Partnership Program with Minority Serving Institutions (MSI) awarden
cg.contributor.donorArmy Research Office (ARO)en
cg.contributor.donorNASA's Early Career Investigator Programen
cg.contributor.donorCGIAR Trust Funden
cg.contributor.donorEarth and Biological Sciences Directorate (EBSD)'s Laboratory Directed Research and Development (LDRD) Program at Pacific Northwest National Laboratory (PNNL)en
cg.contributor.initiativeAsian Mega-Deltas
cg.contributor.programAcceleratorScaling for Impact
cg.creator.identifierMahesh Jampani: 0000-0002-8925-719Xen
cg.identifier.doihttps://doi.org/10.1029/2024wr037929en
cg.identifier.iwmilibraryH053823en
cg.isijournalISI Journalen
cg.issn1944-7973en
cg.issue5en
cg.journalWater Resources Researchen
cg.reviewStatusPeer Reviewen
cg.volume61en
dc.contributor.authorHuang, J.en
dc.contributor.authorSehgal, V.en
dc.contributor.authorAlvarez, L. V.en
dc.contributor.authorBrocca, L.en
dc.contributor.authorCai, S.en
dc.contributor.authorCheng, R.en
dc.contributor.authorCheng, X.en
dc.contributor.authorDu, J.en
dc.contributor.authorEl Masri, B.en
dc.contributor.authorEndsley, K. A.en
dc.contributor.authorFang, Y.en
dc.contributor.authorHu, J.en
dc.contributor.authorJampani, Maheshen
dc.contributor.authorKibria, Md. G.en
dc.contributor.authorKoren, G.en
dc.contributor.authorLi, L.en
dc.contributor.authorLiu, L.en
dc.contributor.authorMao, J.en
dc.contributor.authorMoreno, H. A.en
dc.contributor.authorRigden, A.en
dc.contributor.authorShi, M.en
dc.contributor.authorShi, X.en
dc.contributor.authorWang, Y.en
dc.contributor.authorZhang, X.en
dc.contributor.authorFisher, J. B.en
dc.date.accessioned2025-05-15T14:02:23Zen
dc.date.available2025-05-15T14:02:23Zen
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/10568/174618
dc.titleRemotely sensed high-resolution soil moisture and evapotranspiration: bridging the gap between science and societyen
dcterms.abstractThis paper reviews the current state of high-resolution remotely sensed soil moisture (SM) and evapotranspiration (ET) products and modeling, and the coupling relationship between SM and ET. SM downscaling approaches for satellite passive microwave products leverage advances in artificial intelligence and high-resolution remote sensing using visible, near-infrared, thermal-infrared, and synthetic aperture radar sensors. Remotely sensed ET continues to advance in spatiotemporal resolutions from MODIS to ECOSTRESS to Hydrosat and beyond. These advances enable a new understanding of bio-geo-physical controls and coupled feedback mechanisms between SM and ET reflecting the land cover and land use at field scale (3–30 m, daily). Still, the state-of-the-science products have their challenges and limitations, which we detail across data, retrieval algorithms, and applications. We describe the roles of these data in advancing 10 application areas: drought assessment, food security, precision agriculture, soil salinization, wildfire modeling, dust monitoring, flood forecasting, urban water, energy, and ecosystem management, ecohydrology, and biodiversity conservation. We discuss that future scientific advancement should focus on developing open-access, high- resolution (3–30 m), sub-daily SM and ET products, enabling the evaluation of hydrological processes at finer scales and revolutionizing the societal applications in data-limited regions of the world, especially the Global South for socio-economic development.en
dcterms.accessRightsOpen Access
dcterms.available2025-05-13en
dcterms.bibliographicCitationHuang, J.; Sehgal, V.; Alvarez, L. V.; Brocca, L.; Cai, S.; Cheng, R.; Cheng, X.; Du, J.; El Masri, B.; Endsley, K. A.; Fang, Y.; Hu, J.; Jampani, Mahesh; Kibria, Md. G.; Koren, G.; Li, L.; Liu, L.; Mao, J.; Moreno, H. A.; Rigden, A.; Shi, M.; Shi, X.; Wang, Y.; Zhang, X.; Fisher, J. B. 2025. Remotely sensed high-resolution soil moisture and evapotranspiration: bridging the gap between science and society. Water Resources Research, 61(5):e2024WR037929. [doi: https://doi.org/10.1029/2024WR037929]en
dcterms.extente2024WR037929.en
dcterms.issued2025-05en
dcterms.languageen
dcterms.licenseCC-BY-4.0
dcterms.publisherAmerican Geophysical Union (AGU)en
dcterms.subjectremote sensingen
dcterms.subjectsoil water contenten
dcterms.subjectevapotranspirationen
dcterms.subjectmodellingen
dcterms.subjectalgorithmsen
dcterms.subjectdecision makingen
dcterms.subjectdroughten
dcterms.subjectforecastingen
dcterms.typeJournal Article

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