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item Variogram time series analysis applied to the spatial structure of snow accumulation (Mar 2026)
item UAV-based estimates of corn LAI using Hyperspectral and EnMAP spectral resolutions (Jan 2026)
item Assessing day and night UAV-Based estimates of crop characterization using LiDAR (Jan 2026)
item Advanced workflows for UAV-based crop height estimation using structure from motion (SfM) point clouds (Dec 2025)
item The pyfao56 automated irrigation scheduling algorithm (Dec 2025)
item Synergistic water quality and soil organic carbon sequestration benefits of winter cover crops (Oct 2025)
item Evaluating various energy balance aggregation schemes in cotton using Unoccupied Aerial Systems (UAS)-based latent heat flux estimates (Oct 2025)
item Machine learning algorithms for maize yield prediction with multispectral imagery: Assessing robustness across varied growing environments (Aug 2025)
item Non-native grass invasion drives biodiversity loss after a single fire in a semi-arid shrubland (Jul 2025)
item Soil moisture prediction using remote sensing and machine learning algorithms: A review on progress, challenges and opportunities (Jul 2025)
item Surface boundary layer stability and meteorological drivers of temporal microclimate variability in a semiarid grassland (Jul 2025)
item Surface soil moisture prediction using multimodal remote sensing data fusion and machine learning algorithms in semi-arid agricultural region (Jul 2025)
item Indirect effects of soil amendments on plant traits and the microbiome in post-wildfire forest recovery (Jul 2025)
item Twin-peaks in streamflow timing: Can we use forest alpine snow melt-out response to estimate? (Jul 2025)
item Transfer learning-based accurate detection of shrub crown boundaries using UAS imagery (Jul 2025)
item Threshold soil moisture levels influence soil CO2 emissions: A machine learning approach to predict short-term soil CO2 emissions from climate-smart fields (Jul 2025)
item Forest restoration treatments increase native plant diversity but open the door to invasion in the Colorado Front Range (Jun 2025)
item Plant production forecasting; current state and opportunities for advancing grazing land management (Jun 2025)
item Reducing national water degradation: Development and application of a manureshed-identification framework (Jun 2025)
item Assessing selenium fate and transport in a semi-arid river basin with and without human influence (Jun 2025)
item Topographic position index predicts within-field yield variation in a dryland cereal production system (May 2025)
item Development of low-cost handheld soil moisture measurement device for farmers and citizen scientists (May 2025)
item An innovative UAV-based approach for estimating crop stand counts amidst weed infestation (May 2025)
item Variability in hydrologic response to wildfire between snow zones in forested headwaters (May 2025)
item Soil moisture active passive soil moisture validation experiment withing the Canadian Boreal Forest in 2022 (SMAPVEX22-Boreal) (May 2025)
item Groundwater dominates snowmelt runoff and controls streamflow efficiency in the western United States (May 2025)
item Quantifying the impact of climate change and land use change on surface-subsurface nutrient dynamics in a Chesapeake Bay watershed system (Apr 2025)
item Soil moisture estimates using -band airborne SAR over forests replicating NISAR observations (Mar 2025)
item Estimation of groundwater storage loss using surface–subsurface hydrologic modeling in an irrigated agricultural region (Mar 2025)
item Beyond radiation use efficiency: A mechanistic biochemical photosynthesis model for crop growth simulation and agroecosystem modeling (Mar 2025)
item SMAP Validation Experiment 2019-2022 (SMAPVEX19-22): Field campaign to improve soil moisture and vegetation optical depth retrievals in temperate forests (Mar 2025)
item Inter-comparison of soybean models for the simulation of evapotranspiration in a humid continental climate (Mar 2025)
item Unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) for precision agriculture information gathering to advance crop monitoring and management (Feb 2025)
item Assessing the use of alternative soil data in hydrological and water quality modeling with SWAT+: SSURGO and POLARIS at subbasin and field scales (Feb 2025)
item Soil test phosphorus predicts field-level, but not sub-field level corn yield response (Feb 2025)
item An observation-driven framework for modeling post-fire hydrologic response: evaluation for two central California case studies (Feb 2025)
item Wood decomposition in poorly-drained forested wetland soils: How important are termites? (Feb 2025)
item Dependence of soil moisture and strength on topography and vegetation varies within a SMAP grid cell (Feb 2025)
item Comparative assessment of a restored and natural wetland using 13C-DNA SIP reveals a higher potential for methane production in the restored wetland (Feb 2025)
item Estimating vegetation optical depth with mobile GNSS transmissiometry in temperate forests during SMAPVEX’22 (Feb 2025)
item Impacts of bioenergy crop cultivation on regional climate, hydrology, and water quality in the U.S. northern high plains (Feb 2025)
item Reactive nitrogen in and around the northeastern and Mid-atlantic US: Sources, sinks, and connections with ozone (Feb 2025)
item Modeling agro-hydrological surface-subsurface processes in a semi-arid, intensively irrigated river basin (Feb 2025)
item Digital mapping of agricultural soils texture of the Brazilian Cerrado biome (Jan 2025)
item Full-wave simulations of forest at L-band with fast hybrid multiple scattering theory method and comparison with GNSS signals (Jan 2025)
item Soil surface roughness in temperate forest during SMAPVEX19-22 (Jan 2025)
item Relating spatial turfgrass quality to actual evapotranspiration for precision golf course irrigation (Jan 2025)
item Review of gridded climate products and their use in hydrological analyses reveals overlaps, gaps, and need for more objective approach to selecting model forcing datasets (Jan 2025)
item Water regulation mitigates but does not eliminate water scarcity under rapid economic growth (Dec 2024)
item Two-source energy balance schemes exploiting land surface temperature and soil moisture for continuous vineyard water use estimation (Dec 2024)
item Seasonal variation in landcover estimates reveals sensitivities and opportunities for environmental models (Dec 2024)
item A fully remote sensing-based implementation of the two-source energy balance model: an application over Mediterranean crops (Dec 2024)
item A basic and applied remote sensing research project (GRAPEX) for actual evapotranspiration monitoring to improve vineyard water management (Nov 2024)
item Evaluating SWAT-3PG simulation of hydrologic and water quality processes in a forested watershed: A case study in the St. Croix River basin (Nov 2024)
item Assessing the influence of model inputs on performance of the EMT+VS soil moisture downscaling model for a large foothills region in northern Colorado (Nov 2024)
item Legume hyperspectral and in-situ biophysical/biochemical dataset collected in the Southern Plains (Nov 2024)
item The conditional bias of extreme precipitation in multi-source merged datasets (Nov 2024)
item Hyperspectral reflectance and machine learning for multi-site monitoring of cotton growth (Nov 2024)
item Vegetation crosstalk present in official SMAP surface soil moisture retrievals (Nov 2024)
item Long-term soil nutrient and understory plant responses to post-fire rehabilitation in a lodgepole pine forest (Nov 2024)
item The Long-Term Agroecosystem Research Network: Cross-site transdisciplinary science to support a sustainable and resilient agriculture (Nov 2024)
item Multivariate evaluation of flash drought across the United States (Nov 2024)
item Diel greenhouse gas emissions demonstrate a strong response to vegetation patch types in a freshwater wetland (Nov 2024)
item Soil climate underpins year effects driving divergent outcomes in semi-arid cropland to grassland restoration (Oct 2024)
item The fastest growing and most destructive fires in the U.S. (2001-2020) (Oct 2024)
item Evaluating a multi-step collocation approach for an ensemble climatological dataset of actual evapotranspiration over Italy (Oct 2024)
item Field scale partitioning of Landsat land surface temperature into soil and canopy components for evapotranspiration assessment using a two-source energy balance model (Oct 2024)
item Quantifying the role of calibration strategies on surface-subsurface hydrologic model performance (Oct 2024)
item River corridor beads are important areas of floodplain-groundwater exchange within the Colorado River headwaters watershed (Sep 2024)
item Precision management influences productivity and nutrients availability in dryland cropping system (Sep 2024)
item A global flash drought inventory based on soil moisture volatility (Sep 2024)
item Bridging spatio-temporal discontinuities in global soil moisture mapping by coupling physics in deep learning (Aug 2024)
item Calibration guide for watershed modeling with distributed groundwater modeling: Application for the SWAT+ model (Aug 2024)
item Hyperspectral reflectance and machine learning for multi-site monitoring of cotton growth (Aug 2024)
item The utility and applicability of vegetation index based models for the spatial disaggregation of evapotranspiration (Aug 2024)
item Estimating changes in streamflow attributable to wildfire in multiple watersheds using a conceptual watershed model (Aug 2024)
item Investigating the impact of irrigation practices on hydrologic fluxes in a highly managed river basin (Aug 2024)
item Correction of thin cirrus absorption effects in Landsat 8 TIRS Images using the OLI cirrus band on the same satellite platform (Jul 2024)
item Validation of remotely sensed and modelled soil moisture at forested and unforested NEON sites (Jul 2024)
item Streamflow characteristics and changes over the conterminous United States (Jul 2024)
item High-throughput physiological phenotyping of crop evapotranspiration at the plot scale (Jul 2024)
item Global soil moisture from combined active and passive microwave observations: integrating ASCAT and SMAP observations based on machine learning approaches (Jul 2024)
item Remote sensing of drought: satellite-based monitoring tools for the United States (Jun 2024)
item Responses of precipitation and water vapor budget on the Chinese Loess Plateau to global land cover change forcing (Jun 2024)
item Numerical investigation of observational flux partitioning methods for water vapor and carbon dioxide (Jun 2024)
item P- and L-band radiometry retrieval of subsurface soil moisture and temperature profiles (Jun 2024)
item Making better decisions, 2023 Colorado winter wheat variety performance trials (Jun 2024)
item Retrieving forest soil moisture from SMAP observations considering a microwave polarization difference index (MPDI) to tau-omega model (Jun 2024)
item Development of a gridded yield data archive for farm management and research at the USDA Beltsville Agricultural Research Center (Jun 2024)
item neonPlantEcology: An R package for preparing NEON plant data for use in ecological research (May 2024)
item Calculating a minimum overlap period for successful intercalibration of soil moisture sensors (May 2024)
item Great Basin ALMANAC (May 2024)
item Combining spatial downscaling technique and diurnal temperature cycle model to acquire diurnal patterns of land surface temperature at field scale (May 2024)
item Spatial calibration and uncertainty reduction of the SWAT model using multiple remotely sensed data (May 2024)
item Resolving the hydrologic signature of water spreader berms in the US Southwest (May 2024)
item Evaluating the precise grapevine water stress detection using unmanned aerial vehicles and evapotranspiration-based metrics (Apr 2024)
item Within-field soil moisture variability and time-invariant spatial structures of agricultural fields in the US Midwest (Apr 2024)
item Eastern gamagrass responds inconsistently to nitrogen application in long-established stands and within diverse ecotypes (Apr 2024)
item Soil moisture profiles of ecosystem water use revealed with ECOSTRESS (Apr 2024)
item Precision Soil Moisture Monitoring with Passive Microwave L-band UAS Mapping (Mar 2024)
item A brief history of the thermal IR-based Two-Source Energy Balance (TSEB) model – diagnosing water and energy fluxes from plant to global scales (Mar 2024)
item Drought-fuelled overnight burning propels large fires in North America (Mar 2024)
item Estimating hydrological regimes from observational soil moisture, evapotranspiration, and air temperature data (Mar 2024)
item A review of machine learning models for algal bloom monitoring in freshwater systems (Mar 2024)
item Advancements in dielectric soil moisture sensor Calibration: A comprehensive review of methods and techniques (Mar 2024)
item County-level evaluation of large-scale gridded datasets of irrigated area over China (Feb 2024)
item Eastern gamagrass model simulation parameters for diverse ecotypes: Leaf area index, light extinction coefficient, and radiation use efficiency (Feb 2024)
item Photosynthetically active radiation separation model for high-latitude regions in agrivoltaic systems modeling (Feb 2024)
item Neglect of potential seasonal streamflow forecasting skill in the United States national water model (Feb 2024)
item Tillage practices in long-term winter wheat-fallow affect soil fertility (Feb 2024)
item DAWN: Dashboard for Agricultural Water use and Nutrient management - A predictive decision support system to improve crop production in a changing climate (Feb 2024)
item Developmental framework for a desktop hydrogeomorphic wetland functional assessment derived from field-based data (Jan 2024)
item Assessing the accuracy of OpenET satellite-based evapotranspiration data to support water resource and land management applications (Jan 2024)
item A framework for parameter estimation, sensitivity analysis, and uncertainty analysis for holistic hydrologic modeling using SWAT+ (Jan 2024)
item First mapping of polarization-dependent vegetation optical depth and soil moisture from SMAP L-band radiometry (Dec 2023)
item Inter-basin water transfer compensates for unsustainable water use in the North China Plain (Dec 2023)
item Systematic modelling errors undermine the application of land data assimilation systems for hydrological and weather forecasting (Dec 2023)
item Forage yield and nutritive value of summer legumes as affected by row spacing and harvest timing (Dec 2023)
item Forming the future of agrohydrology research (Dec 2023)
item Drainage ditch network extraction from lidar data using deep convolutional neural networks in a low relief landscape (Dec 2023)
item Spatial estimation of actual evapotranspiration over irrigated turfgrass using sUAS thermal and multispectral imagery and TSEB model (Dec 2023)
item A review of machine learning applications in life cycle assessment studies (Nov 2023)
item Assessing the impact of groundwater saturation excess runoff on hydrologic features and processes in a watershed modeling setting (Nov 2023)
item Multivariate calibration of an ecohydrological model using spatial patterns of remote sensing-derived land surface temperature (Nov 2023)
item Interpreting effective hydrologic depth estimates derived from soil moisture remote sensing: A Bayesian non-linear modelling approach (Nov 2023)
item Machine learning algorithms improve MODIS GPP estimates in United States croplands (Nov 2023)
item Large-scale urban building function mapping by integrating multi-source web-based geospatial data (Oct 2023)
item Validating NISAR’s cropland mapping approach and the USDA/NASS Cropland Data Layer against ground truth data in a fragmented urban agricultural region (Oct 2023)
item IMERG precipitation improves the SMAP level-4 soil moisture product (Oct 2023)
item Perspective: Current and future research directions in understanding streambank erosion phenomena (Oct 2023)
item Diverse eastern gamagrass ecotypes: General characteristics, ploidy levels, and biogeography (Sep 2023)
item DayCent-CUTE: a global sensitivity, auto-calibration, and uncertainty analysis tool for DayCent (Sep 2023)
item Land management affects soil structural stability: Multi-index principal component analyses of treatment interactions (Sep 2023)
item The 50-year Landsat collection 2 archive (Sep 2023)
item Nitrous oxide emissions from multiple agroecosystems in the U.S. Corn Belt simulated using the modified SWAT-C model (Sep 2023)
item True global error maps for SMAP, SMOS, and ASCAT soil moisture data based on machine learning and triple collocation analysis (Sep 2023)
item Watershed scale modeling of dissolved organic carbon export from variable source areas (Aug 2023)
item An introduction to Bayesian Machine Learning with an application in global-scale active and passive satellite-based soil moisture error pattern analysis (Aug 2023)
item Wildfire and climate change amplify knowledge gaps linking mountain source-water systems and agricultural water supply in the western United States (Aug 2023)
item Field scale SWAT+ modeling of corn and soybean yields for the contiguous United States: National agroecosystem model development (Aug 2023)
item Assessment of the NASA carbon monitoring system wet carbon stakeholder community: data needs, gaps, and opportunities (Jul 2023)
item The effects of forest composition and management on evapotranspiration in the New Jersey Pinelands (Jul 2023)
item A twenty-year dataset of soil moisture and vegetation optical depth from AMSR-E/2 measurements using the multichannel collaborative algorithm (Jul 2023)
item Estimating drought-induced crop yield losses in near-real time (Jun 2023)
item Hyperspectral reflectance and machine learning to monitor legume biomass and nitrogen accumulation (Jun 2023)
item Attributing the drivers of runoff decline in the Thaya River basin (Jun 2023)
item Late-fall satellite-based soil moisture observations show clear connections to subsequent spring streamflow (Jun 2023)
item 2022 Colorado winter wheat variety performance trials (May 2023)
item Watershed carbon yield derived from gauge observations and river network connectivity in the United States (May 2023)
item Cooling effects of increased green fodder area on native grassland in the northeastern Tibetan Plateau (May 2023)
item Multivariate calibration of the SWAT model using remotely sensed datasets (May 2023)
item Inversion and Validation of FY-4A Official Land Surface Temperature Product (May 2023)
item SWAT-3PG: Improving forest growth simulation with a process-based forest model in SWAT (Apr 2023)
item Peanut seed germination detection based on unmanned aerial systems (UAS) and deep learning (Apr 2023)
item Potential of remote sensing surface temperature- and evapotranspiration-based land-atmosphere coupling metrics for land surface model calibration (Apr 2023)
item The invasive plant data landscape: A synthesis of spatial data and applications for research and management in the United States (Mar 2023)
item Plant parameterization and APEXgraze model calibration and validation for U.S. land resource region H grazing lands (Mar 2023)
item Form field observations to temporally dynamic roughness retrievals in the corn belt (Mar 2023)
item Tropical tree simulation with a process-based, daily timestep simulation model (ALMANAC): Description of model adaptation and examples with coffee and cocoa simulations (Feb 2023)
item Surface Albedo VALidation (SALVAL) platform: towards CEOS LPV validation stage 4. Application to three global al-bedo climate data records (Feb 2023)
item Assessment of aggregate stability methodologies for calcareous silty soils in Idaho's Magic Valley (Feb 2023)
item Assessment of infiltration methodologies for calcareous silty soils in Idaho's Magic Valley (Feb 2023)
item Shifting social-ecological fire regimes explain increasing structure loss from Western wildfires (Feb 2023)
item Augmenting the national agroecosystem model with physically based spatially distributed groundwater modeling (Feb 2023)
item ET partitioning assessment using the TSEB model and sUAS information across California Central Valley vineyards (Jan 2023)
item An approach for prioritizing natural infrastructure practices to mitigate flood and nitrate risks in the Mississippi-Atchafalaya River Basin (Jan 2023)
item Effects of two categorically differing emergent wetland plants on evapotranspiration (Jan 2023)
item Near real-time detection of winter cover crop termination using harmonized Landsat and Sentinel-2 (HLS) to support ecosystem assessment (Dec 2022)
item Fuel connectivity, burn severity, and seedbank survivorship drive ecosystem transformation in a semiarid shrubland (Dec 2022)
item Estimation of base and surface flow using deep neural networks and a hydrologic model in two watersheds of the Chesapeake Bay (Dec 2022)
item Improved estimation of vegetation water content and its impact on L-band soil moisture retrieval over cropland (Dec 2022)
item Western U.S. multistate research project on “water movement in soils”: A retrospective (Dec 2022)
item Working toward a National Coordinated Soil Moisture Monitoring Network: vision, progress, and future directions (Dec 2022)
item Integrating vegetation phenology and SWAT model for improved modeling of ecohydrological processes (Nov 2022)
item In situ soil moisture sensors in undisturbed soils (Nov 2022)
item Evaluation of cotton emergence using multi-band spectral imagery for organic production systems (Nov 2022)
item Using UAS-multispectral images to predict cord yield under different planting dates (Nov 2022)
item A global implementation of single- and dual-source surface energy balance models for estimating actual evapotranspiration at 30-m resolution using Google Earth Engine (Nov 2022)
item Benchmarking downscaled satellite-based soil moisture products using sparse, point-scale ground observations (Oct 2022)
item An agenda for land data assimilation priorities: Realizing the promise of terrestrial water, energy, and vegetation observations from space (Oct 2022)
item Unraveling the effects of management and climate on carbon fluxes of U.S. croplands using the USDA Long-Term Agroecosystem (LTAR) network (Sep 2022)
item From vine to vineyard: The GRAPEX multi-scale remote sensing experiment for improving vineyard irrigation management (Sep 2022)
item Clean Water Act at 50: Celebrating the golden anniversary of the blue policy (Sep 2022)
item NRCS curve number method: A comparison of methods for estimating the curve number from rainfall-runoff data (Aug 2022)
item High-resolution soil moisture data reveal complex multi-scale spatial variability across the United States (Aug 2022)
item Country-level fire perimeter datasets (2001-2021) (Jul 2022)
item Fifty years of Landsat science and impacts (Jul 2022)
item Assessing the spatiotemporal variability of SMAP soil moisture accuracy in a deciduous forest region (Jul 2022)
item Modern pyromes: Biogeographical patterns of fire characteristics across the contiguous United States (Jul 2022)
item Seeing our planet anew: fifty years of Landsat (Jul 2022)
item Modeling the distribution of wild cotton Gossypium aridum in Mexico using flowering growing degree days and annual available soil water (May 2022)
item Simulation of pesticide and metabolite concentrations using SWAT+ landscape routing and conditional management applications (Apr 2022)
item LAI estimation across California vineyards using sUAS multi-seasonal multi-spectral, thermal, and elevation information and machine learning (Mar 2022)
item Integrated assessment of nitrogen runoff to the Gulf of Mexico (Nov 2021)
item A hydropedological approach to simulate streamflow and soil water contents with SWAT+ (May 2021)