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Reports

Conference Contributions and Guest Lectures

  1. C. Montzka, H. Bogena, T. Jagdhuber, I. Hajnsek, R. Horn, A. Reigber, S. Hasan, C. Rüdiger, M. Jaeger and H. Vereecken: Soil moisture estimation by airborne active and passive microwave remote sensing: A test-bed for SMAP fusion algorithms. European Geosciences Union General Assembly 2014, Vienna, Austria, Poster, 27.4.2014 – 2.5.2014
  2. K. Rötzer, C. Montzka, and H. Vereecken (2014): Global soil moisture products and their spatial and temporal variability. ESA Dragon 3 Symposium, Chengdu, China, Oral Presentation , 26.5.2014 – 29.5.2014
  3. C. Montzka: Microwave Remote Sensing for Soil Moisture Estimation. Summer School "GRACE/GRACE-FO applications for the terrestrial water cycle", Mayschoss, Germany, Invited Presentation, 18.9.2014
  4. C. Montzka, X. Han, H.-J. Hendricks Franssen, T. Pütz and H. Vereecken: Performance evaluation of the Particle Smoother with Sequential Importance Resampling for soil hydraulic parameter estimation. AGU Fall Meeting, San Francisco, Poster presentation, 15.12.2014 – 19.12.2014
  5. H. Lievens, H. Vernieuwe, B. De Baets, R. Hostache, M. Chini, L. Pfister, P. Matgen, G. He, H. Vereecken, X. Han, C. Montzka, and N. Verhoest: Hydras+ Improving Drought Monitoring by Assimilating multi-source Remote Sensing Observations into Hydrologic Models. European Geosciences Union General Assembly 2015, Vienna, Austria, Poster, 13.4.2015 – 17.4.2015
  6. X. Han, X. Li, C. Montzka, S. Kollet, H. Vereecken, and H.-J. Hendricks Franssen: DasPy - Open Source Multivariate Land Data Assimilation Framework with High Performance Computing. European Geosciences Union General Assembly 2015, Vienna, Austria, Poster presentation, 13.4.2015 – 17.4.2015
  7. Verhoest N.E.C., Using remote sensing for detecting the global impact of climate extremes on vegetation and improving drought monitoring programs, Space4Food, World Exposition, Milano, Italy, Oral presentation, 11.6.2015
  8. Montzka, C., T. Jagdhuber, R. Horn, H. Bogena, I. Hajnsek, A. Reigber and H. Vereecken, Investigation of SMAP fusion algorithms with airborne active and passive L-band microwave remote sensing. Helmholtz Alliance on Remote sensing and earth system dynamics, Alliance Week, Garmisch-Partenkirchen, Germany Poster Presentation, 22.6.2015 – 26.6. 2015
  9. Montzka, C., Rötzer, K. and H. Vereecken, ESA-NRSCC Dragon Conference, Interlaken, Switzerland, Oral presentation, 22.6.2015 – 26.6. 2015
  10. X. Han, H.-J. Hendricks Franssen, C. Montzka, H. Vereecken, R. Jin, and X. Li: Multivariate Land Data Assimilation at Global Scale. ESA-NRSCC Dragon Conference, Interlaken, Switzerland, Poster presentation, 22.62015 – 26.6.2015
  11. Rains D., Earth Observation for Water Cycle Science, ESA-ESRIN, Frascati Poster presentation, 20.10.2015 – 23.10.2015
  12. C. Montzka, T. Jagdhuber, R. Horn, H. Bogena, I. Hajnsek, A. Reigber and H. Vereecken: Analyzing SMAP fusion algorithms with airborne active and passive L-band microwave remote sensing. Earth Observation for Water Cycle Science 2015, ESA-ESRIN Frascati, Italy, Oral Presentation, 20.10.2015 – 23.10.2015
  13. Montzka, C., Mikrowellenfernerkundung zur Bodenfeuchtebestimmung. Indikatorgestütztes Bodenfeuchte Monitoring (InBoMo) Workshop, Potsdam, Germany, Invited Presentation, 3.11.2015
  14. A. Colliander, T. Jackson, N. N. Das, S. Kim, R. Bindlish, M. Cosh, T. G. Caldwell, A. Berg, T. Rowlandson, K. Caylor, H. K. Al Jassar, E. Lopez-Baeza, J. Martínez-Fernández, Á. González-Zamora, H. McNairn, A. Pacheco, M. Moghaddam, C. Montzka, C. Notarnicola, G. Niedrist, T. Pellarin, J. Pulliainen, K. Rautiainen, J. Ramos, M. Seyfried, Z. Su, Y. Zeng, R. van der Velde, M. Temimi, M. Thibeault, M. Vreugdenhil, W. Dorigo, J. Walker, X. Wu, M. Spencer, P. O'Neill, D. Entekhabi, S. Yueh, and E. Njoku: SMAP L2/L3 Soil Moisture Product Validation Using in Situ Based Core Validation Sites. SSSA Annual Meeting, Minneapolis, USA, Oral Presentation, 15.11.2015 – 18.11.2015
  15. C. Montzka, C. Lorenz, T. Jagdhuber, P. Laux, I. Hajnsek, H. Kunstmann, D. Entekhabi, and H. Vereecken : Investigating Baseline, Alternative and Copula-based Algorithm for combining Airborne Active and Passive Microwave Observations in the SMAP Context. AGU Fall Meeting, San Francisco, Poster presentation, 14.12.2015 – 18.12.2015
  16. A. Colliander, T. Jackson, S. Chan, N. N. Das, S. Kim, R. S. Dunbar, R. Bindlish, L. Dang, A. Berg, T. Rowlandson, K. Caylor, M. Cosh, H. K. Al Jassar, E. Lopez-Baeza, J. Martínez-Fernández, Á. González-Zamora, H. McNairn, A. Pacheco, M. Moghaddam, C. Montzka, C. Notarnicola, G. Niedrist, T. Pellarin, J. Pulliainen, K. Rautiainen, J. Ramos, M. Seyfried, Z. Su, Y. Zeng, R. van der Velde, M. Temimi, M. Thibeault, W. Dorigo, M. Vreugdenhil, J. Walker, X. Wu, T. Caldwell, M. Spencer, P. O'Neill, D. Entekhabi, S. Yueh, and E. Njoku: SMAP L2/L3 Soil Moisture Product Validation using In Situ Based Core Validation Sites. AGU Fall Meeting, San Francisco, Poster presentation, 14.12.2015 – 18.12.2015
  17. S. Chan, R. Bindlish, A. Colliander, F. Chen, P. O'Neill, T. Jackson, E. Njoku, A. Berg, T. Rowlandson, K. Caylor, M. Cosh, H. Al Jassar, E. Lopez-Baeza, J. Martinez-Fernandez, A. Gonzalez-Zamora, H. McNairn, A. Pacheco, M. Moghaddam, C. Montzka, C. Notarnicola, G. Niedrist, T. Pellarin, J. Pulliainen, K. Rautiainen, J. Ramos, M. Seyfried, Z. Su, Y. Zeng, R. van der Velde, M. Thibeault, W. Dorigo, M. Vreugdenhil, J. Walker, X. Wu, J. Asanuma, L. Dang, L. Pashaian, M. Spencer, D. Entekhabi, and S. Yueh: An Intercomparison of SMAP Passive Soil Moisture Retrieval Algorithms. American Meteorological Society Annual Meeting, New Orleans, USA, Oral presentation , 10.1.2016 – 14.1.2016
  18. T. Jackson, A. Colliander, S. Chan, N. Das, S. Kim, S. Dunbar, R. Bindlish, A. Berg, T. Rowlandson, K. Caylor, M. Cosh, H. Al Jassar, E. Lopez-Baeza, J. Martinez-Fernandez, A. Gonzalez-Zamora, H. McNairn, A. Pacheco, M. Moghaddam, C. Montzka, C. Notarnicola, G. Niedrist, T. Pellarin, J. Pulliainen, K. Rautianen, J. Ramos, M. Seyfried, Z. Su, Y. Zeng, R. van der Velde, M. Thibeault, W. Dorigo, M. Vreugdenhil, J. Walker, X. Wu, J. Asanuma, L. Dang, L. Pashaian, M. Spencer, P. O'Neill, D. Entekhabi, S. Yueh, and E. Njoku: SMAP L2/L3 Soil Moisture Product Validation with Core Validation Sites. American Meteorological Society Annual Meeting, New Orleans, USA, Oral presentation, 10.1.2016 – 14.1.2016
  19. C. Montzka, C. Lorenz, T. Jagdhuber, P. Laux, I. Hajnsek, H. Kunstmann, D. Entekhabi, and H. Vereecken (2016): A Copula-based Algorithm for combining Airborne Active and Passive Microwave Observations. ESA Living Planet Symposium, Prague, Czech Republic, Oral Presentation, 9.5.2016 – 13.5.2016
  20. C. Montzka, K. Rötzer, H. Bogena, X. Han, and H. Vereecken: A statistical perspective on the spatio-temporal variability of global soil moisture products. ESA-NRSCC Dragon Conference, Wuhan, China, Oral presentation, 4.7.2016 – 8.7.2016
  21. C. Montzka, H.-J. Hendricks Franssen, T. Pütz, X. Han, and H. Vereecken (2016): A Particle Smoother with Sequential Importance Resampling for lysimeter soil hydraulic parameter estimation. Sino-German Lysimeter Workshop, Beijing, China, Invited presentation, 14.8.2016 – 16.8.2016
  22. C. Montzka, H. Bogena, X. Han, K. Rötzer, and H. Vereecken: Predicting texture-induced sub-grid variability of global soil moisture products. 3rd Satellite Soil Moisture Validation and Application Workshop, New York, USA, Poster presentation 21.9.2016 – 22.9.2016

Publications

2015:
  1. Baghdadi N., Zribi M., Paloscia S., Verhoest N.E.C., Lievens H., Baup F., Mattia F., Semi-empirical calibration of the Integral Equation Model for co-polarized L-band backscattering, Remote Sensing, 7, 13626-13640, 2015.
  2. Lievens H., Al Bitar A., Verhoest N.E.C., Cabot F., De Lannoy G.J.M., Drusch M., Dumedah G., Hendricks-Franssen H.J., Kerr Y., Kumar Tomer S., Martens B., Merlin O., Pan M., van den Berg M.J., Vereecken H., Walker J., Wood E.F., Pauwels V.R.N., Optimization of a radiative transfer forward operator for simulating SMOS brightness temperatures over the Upper Mississippi Basin, USA, Journal of Hydrometeorology, 16(3), 1109-1134, 2015.
  3. Lievens H., Kumar Tomer S., Al Bitar A., De Lannoy G.J.M., Drusch M., Dumeda G., Hendricks Franssen H.-J., Kerr Y.H., Pang M., Roundy J. K., Vereecken H., Walker J.P., Wood E.F., Verhoest N.E.C., Pauwels V.R.N., SMOS soil moisture assimilation for improved streamflow simulation in the Murray Darling Basin, Australia, Remote Sensing of Environment, 168, 146-162, 2015.
  4. Lievens H., De Lannoy G.J.M., Al Bitar A., Drusch M., Dumedah G., Hendricks Franssen H.-J., Kerr Y.H., Tomer S.K., Martens B., Merlin O., Pang M., Roundy J.K., Vereecken H., Walker J.P., Wood E.F., Verhoest N.E.C., Pauwels V.R.N., Assimilation of SMOS soil moisture and brightness temperature products into a land surface model, Remote Sensing of Environment, 180, 292-304, 2016.
  5. Martens B., Lievens H., Colliander A., Jackson T.J., Verhoest N.E.C., Estimating effective roughness parameters of the L-MEB model for soil moisture retrievals from passive microwave observations, IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing, 53(7), 4091-4103, 2015.
  6. Verhoest N.E.C., van den Berg M.J., Martens B., Lievens H., Wood E.F., Pan M., Kerr Y., Al Bitar A., Tomer S.K., Drusch M., Vernieuwe H., De Baets B., Walker J., Dumedah G., Pauwels V.R.N., Copula-based downscaling of coarse-scale soil moisture observations with implicit bias correction, IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing, 53(6), 3507-3521, 2015.
2016:
  1. Lievens H., De Lannoy G.J.M., Al Bitar A., Drusch M., Dumedah G., Hendricks Franssen H.-J., Kerr Y.H., Tomer S.K., Martens B., Merlin O., Pang M., Roundy J.K., Vereecken H., Walker J.P., Wood E.F., Verhoest N.E.C., Pauwels V.R.N., Assimilation of SMOS soil moisture and brightness temperature products into a land surface model, Remote Sensing of Environment, 180, 292-304, 2016.