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ORCID: 0000-0002-1756-1096
h-index: 45
i10-index: 83
citations: 8200
peer review papers: 92
as of 09/2024
Book Chapters
Soil Moisture retrieval algorithms: the SMOS case. Yann H. Kerr, Ali Mahmoodi, Arnaud Mialon, Ahmad Al Bitar, Nemesio Rodríguez-Fernández, Philippe Richaume, François Cabot, Jean Pierre Wigneron, Philippe Waldteufel, Paolo Ferrazzoli , Mike Schwank, Steven Delwart, in « Comprehensive Remote Sensing », Elsevier, vol. 4 “Water Cycle Components over Land”, pp. 156–190. Oxford: Elsevier, November 2017, ISBN : 9780128032206
Muñoz-Sabater, J., Al Bitar, A. & Brocca, L. Soil moisture retrievals based on active and passive microwave data: State-of-the-art and operational applications. in Satellite Soil Moisture Retrieval 351–378 (Elsevier, 2016).
Landier, L., Lauret, N., Yin, T., Al Bitar, A., Gastellu-Etchegorry, J., Feigenwinter, C., Parlow, E., Mitraka, Z. & Chrysoulakis, N. Chapter Remote Sensing Studies of Urban Canopies: 3D Radiative Transfer Modeling. in (InTechOpen, 2016).
Kerr, Y. H., Wigneron, J.-P., Al Bitar, A., Mialon, A. & Srivastava, P. Soil moisture from space: Techniques and limitations. in Satellite Soil Moisture Retrieval 3–27 (Elsevier, 2016).
Ababou, R. & Al-Bitar, A. Salt water intrusion with heterogeneity and uncertainty: mathematical modeling and analyses. in Developments in Water Science vol. 55 1559–1571 (Elsevier, 2004).
AL BITAR, A. & ABABOU, R. Coupled surface/groundwater flow via a Diffusive wave/Boussinesq model and undersharp interface saltwater intrusion conditions. In Geoenv (Elsevier, 2006).
Peer-reviewed papers
Wongchuig, S., Paiva, R., Siqueira, V., Papa, F., Fleischmann, A., Biancamaria, S., Paris, A., Parrens, M. & Al Bitar, A. Multi-satellite data assimilation for large-scale hydrological-hydrodynamic prediction: Proof of concept in the Amazon basin. Water Resources Research 60, e2024WR037155 (2024).
Wijmer, T., Al Bitar, A., Arnaud, L., Fieuzal, R. & Ceschia, E. AgriCarbon-EO v1. 0.1: large-scale and high-resolution simulation of carbon fluxes by assimilation of Sentinel-2 and Landsat-8 reflectances using a Bayesian approach. Geoscientific Model Development 17, 997–1021 (2024).
Soltani, S. S., Ataie-Ashtiani, B., Al Bitar, A., Simmons, C. T., Younes, A. & Fahs, M. Assimilating multivariate remote sensing data into a fully coupled subsurface-land surface hydrological model. Journal of Hydrology 641, 131812 (2024).
Antonenko, V., Al Bitar, A., Danylenko, I., Wijmer, T., Colin, J., Dejoux, J.-F., Lefebvre, A., Knibbe, M., Ceschia, E. & Gascoin, S. Impact of the Russian invasion on wheat biomass in Ukraine. Environmental Research Letters (2024).
Al Bitar, A., Najem, S., Jarlan, L., Zribi, M. & Faour, G. Precipitation and soil moisture datasets show severe droughts in the MENA region. (2024).
Roupioz, L., Briottet, X., Adeline, K., Al Bitar, A., Barbon-Dubosc, D., Barda-Chatain, R., Barillot, P., Bridier, S., Carroll, E., Cassante, C., & others. Multi-source datasets acquired over Toulouse (France) in 2021 for urban microclimate studies during the CAMCATT/AI4GEO field campaign. Data in Brief 48, 109109 (2023).
Parrens, M., Al-Bitar, A. & Santos Fleischmann, A. Monitoring extreme floods and droughts in the Amazon basin with surface-water-based indices. Journal of Hydrometeorology 24, 1417–1436 (2023).
Mhawej, M., Abunnasr, Y. & Al Bitar, A. Water features as the main SUHI hindering factor across 50 global cities. Urban Climate 51, 101666 (2023).
Debaeke, P., Attia, F., Champolivier, L., Dejoux, J.-F., Micheneau, A., Al Bitar, A. & Trépos, R. Forecasting sunflower grain yield using remote sensing data and statistical models. European Journal of Agronomy 142, 126677 (2023).
Souissi, R., Zribi, M., Corbari, C., Mancini, M., Muddu, S., Tomer, S. K., Upadhyaya, D. B. & Al Bitar, A. Integrating process-related information into an artificial neural network for root-zone soil moisture prediction. Hydrology and Earth System Sciences 26, 3263–3297 (2022).
Soltani, S. S., Fahs, M., Al Bitar, A. & Ataie-Ashtiani, B. Improvement of soil moisture and groundwater level estimations using a scale-consistent river parameterization for the coupled ParFlow-CLM hydrological model: A case study of the Upper Rhine Basin. Journal of hydrology 610, 127991 (2022).
Martínez-Espinosa, C., Sauvage, S., Al Bitar, A. & Pérez, J. M. S. A dynamic model for assessing soil denitrification in large-scale natural wetlands driven by Earth Observations. Environmental Modelling & Software 158, 105557 (2022).
Guilhen, J., Parrens, M., Sauvage, S., Santini, W., Mercier, F., Al Bitar, A., Fabre, C., Martinez, J.-M. & Sànchez-Pérez, J.-M. Estimation of the Madeira floodplain dynamics from 2008 to 2018. Frontiers in Water 4, 952810 (2022).
Fleischmann, A. S., Papa, F., Fassoni-Andrade, A., Melack, J. M., Wongchuig, S., Paiva, R. C. D., Hamilton, S. K., Fluet-Chouinard, E., Barbedo, R., Aires, F., Al Bitar A. & others. How much inundation occurs in the Amazon River basin? Remote Sensing of Environment 278, 113099 (2022).
Corbari, C., Paciolla, N., Restuccia, G. & Al Bitar, A. Multi-scale EO-based agricultural drought monitoring system for operative irrigation networks management. Natural Hazards and Earth System Sciences Discussions 2022, 1–33 (2022).
Corbari, C., Charfi, I. B., Al Bitar, A., Skokovic, D., Sobrino, J., Perelli, C., Branca, G. & Mancini, M. A fully coupled crop-water-energy balance model based on satellite data for maize and tomato crops yield estimates: The FEST-EWB-SAFY model. Agricultural Water Management 272, 107850 (2022).
Upadhyaya, D. B., Evans, J., Muddu, S., Tomer, S. K., Al Bitar, A., Yeggina, S., S, T., Morrison, R., Fry, M., Tripathi, S. N., & others. The Indian COSMOS Network (ICON): validating L-band remote sensing and modelled soil moisture data products. Remote Sensing 13, 537 (2021).
Martínez-Espinosa, C., Sauvage, S., Al Bitar, A., Green, P. A., Vörösmarty, C. J. & Sánchez-Pérez, J. M. Denitrification in wetlands: A review towards a quantification at global scale. Science of the total environment 754, 142398 (2021).
Madelon, R., Rodríguez-Fernández, N. J., van der Schalie, R., Scanlon, T., Al Bitar, A., Kerr, Y. H., de Jeu, R. & Dorigo, W. Toward the Removal of Model Dependency in Soil Moisture Climate Data Records by Using an L -Band Scaling Reference. IEEE Journal of Selected Topics in Applied Earth Observations and Remote Sensing 15, 831–848 (2021).
Fleischmann, A. S., Al Bitar, A., Oliveira, A. M., Siqueira, V. A., Colossi, B. R., Paiva, R. C. D. de, Kerr, Y., Ruhoff, A., Fan, F. M., Pontes, P. R. M., & others. Synergistic calibration of a hydrological model using discharge and remotely sensed soil moisture in the Parana River Basin. Remote Sensing 13, 3256 (2021).
Fatras, C., Parrens, M., Peña Luque, S. & Al Bitar, A. Hydrological dynamics of the Congo Basin from water surfaces based on L-band microwave. Water Resources Research 57, e2020WR027259 (2021).
Trépos, R., Champolivier, L., Dejoux, J.-F., Al Bitar, A., Casadebaig, P. & Debaeke, P. Forecasting sunflower grain yield by assimilating leaf area index into a crop model. Remote sensing 12, 3816 (2020).
Souissi, R., Al Bitar, A. & Zribi, M. Accuracy and transferability of artificial neural networks in predicting in situ root-zone soil moisture for various regions across the globe. Water 12, 3109 (2020).
Pique, G., Fieuzal, R., Debaeke, P., Al Bitar, A., Tallec, T. & Ceschia, E. Combining high-resolution remote sensing products with a crop model to estimate carbon and water budget components: Application to sunflower. Remote Sensing 12, 2967 (2020).
Pique, G., Fieuzal, R., Al Bitar, A., Veloso, A., Tallec, T., Brut, A., Ferlicoq, M., Zawilski, B., Dejoux, J.-F., Gibrin, H., & others. Estimation of daily CO2 fluxes and of the components of the carbon budget for winter wheat by the assimilation of Sentinel 2-like remote sensing data into a crop model. Geoderma 376, 114428 (2020).
Paciolla, N., Corbari, C., Al Bitar, A., Kerr, Y. & Mancini, M. Irrigation and precipitation hydrological consistency with SMOS, SMAP, ESA-CCI, Copernicus SSM1km, and AMSR-2 remotely sensed soil moisture products. Remote Sensing 12, 3737 (2020).
Lopez, T., Al Bitar, A., Biancamaria, S., Güntner, A. & Jäggi, A. On the use of satellite remote sensing to detect floods and droughts at large scales. Surveys in Geophysics 41, 1461–1487 (2020).
Guilhen, J., Sauvage, S., Parrens, M., Martinez, J.-M., Abril, G., Moreira-Turcq, P., Sanchez-Perez, J.-M., Al Bitar A. & others. Denitrification and associated nitrous oxide and carbon dioxide emissions from the Amazonian wetlands. Biogeosciences 17, 4297–4311 (2020).
Fleischmann, A., Paiva, R., Collischonn, W., Siqueira, V., Paris, A., Moreira, D., Papa, F., Al Bitar, A., Parrens, M., Aires, F., & others. Trade-offs between 1-D and 2-D regional river hydrodynamic models. Water Resources Research 56, e2019WR026812 (2020).
Zribi, M., Muddu, S., Bousbih, S., Al Bitar, A., Tomer, S. K., Baghdadi, N. & Bandyopadhyay, S. Analysis of L-band SAR data for soil moisture estimations over agricultural areas in the tropics. Remote Sensing 11, 1122 (2019).
Parrens, M., Al Bitar, A., Frappart, F., Paiva, R., Wongchuig, S., Papa, F., Yamasaki, D. & Kerr, Y. High resolution mapping of inundation area in the Amazon basin from a combination of L-band passive microwave, optical and radar datasets. International Journal of Applied Earth Observation and Geoinformation 81, 58–71 (2019).
Ojha, N., Merlin, O., Molero, B., Suere, C., Olivera-Guerra, L., Ait Hssaine, B., Amazirh, A., Al Bitar, A., Escorihuela, M. J. & Er-Raki, S. Stepwise disaggregation of SMAP soil moisture at 100 m resolution using Landsat-7/8 data and a varying intermediate resolution. Remote Sensing 11, 1863 (2019).
Krayem, A., Al Bitar, A., Ahmad, A., Faour, G., Gastellu-Etchegorry, J.-P., Lakkis, I., Gerard, J., Zaraket, H., Yeretzian, A. & Najem, S. Urban energy modeling and calibration of a coastal Mediterranean city: The case of Beirut. Energy and Buildings 199, 223–234 (2019).
Ferrant, S., Selles, A., Le Page, M., Mermoz, S., Gascoin, S., Bouvet, A., Ahmed, S., Kerr, Y. H., Al Bitar A. & others. Sentinel-1&2 for near real time cropping pattern monitoring in drought prone areas. application to irrigation water needs in telangana, south-india. International Archives of the Photogrammetry, Remote Sensing and Spatial Information Sciences 42, 285–292 (2019).
Rodríguez-Fernández, N. J., Mialon, A., Mermoz, S., Bouvet, A., Richaume, P., Al Bitar, A., Al-Yaari, A., Brandt, M., Kaminski, T., Le Toan, T., & others. An evaluation of SMOS L-band vegetation optical depth (L-VOD) data sets: high sensitivity of L-VOD to above-ground biomass in Africa. Biogeosciences 15, 4627–4645 (2018).
Landier, L., Gastellu-Etchegorry, J.-P., Al Bitar, A., Chavanon, E., Lauret, N., Feigenwinter, C., Mitraka, Z. & Chrysoulakis, N. Calibration of urban canopies albedo and 3D shortwave radiative budget using remote-sensing data and the DART model. European Journal of Remote Sensing 51, 739–753 (2018).
Kalaoun, O., Jazar, M. & Al Bitar, A. Assessing the contribution of demographic growth, climate change, and the refugee crisis on seawater intrusion in the Tripoli aquifer. water 10, 973 (2018).
Fan, L., Wigneron, J.-P., Xiao, Q., Al-Yaari, A., Wen, J., Martin-StPaul, N., Dupuy, J.-L., Pimont, F., Al Bitar, A., Fernandez-Moran, R., & others. Evaluation of microwave remote sensing for monitoring live fuel moisture content in the Mediterranean region. Remote Sensing of Environment 205, 210–223 (2018).
El Hajj, M., Baghdadi, N., Zribi, M., Rodríguez-Fernández, N., Wigneron, J. P., Al-Yaari, A., Al Bitar, A., Albergel, C. & Calvet, J.-C. Evaluation of SMOS, SMAP, ASCAT and Sentinel-1 soil moisture products at sites in Southwestern France. Remote Sensing 10, 569 (2018).
Wigneron, J.-P., Jackson, T., O’neill, P., De Lannoy, G., de Rosnay, P., Walker, J., Ferrazzoli, P., Mironov, V., Bircher, S., Grant, J., Al Bitar A. & others. Modelling the passive microwave signature from land surfaces: A review of recent results and application to the L-band SMOS & SMAP soil moisture retrieval algorithms. Remote Sensing of Environment 192, 238–262 (2017).
Parrens, M., Wigneron, J.-P., Richaume, P., Al Bitar, A., Mialon, A., Fernandez-Moran, R., Al-Yaari, A., O’Neill, P. & Kerr, Y. Considering combined or separated roughness and vegetation effects in soil moisture retrievals. International journal of applied earth observation and geoinformation 55, 73–86 (2017).
Parrens, M., Al Bitar, A., Frappart, F., Papa, F., Calmant, S., Crétaux, J.-F., Wigneron, J.-P. & Kerr, Y. Mapping dynamic water fraction under the tropical rain forests of the Amazonian basin from SMOS brightness temperatures. Water 9, 350 (2017).
Parrens, M., Al Bitar, A., Mialon, A., Fernandez-Moran, R., Ferrazzoli, P., Kerr, Y. & Wigneron, J.-P. Estimation of the L-band effective scattering albedo of tropical forests using SMOS observations. IEEE Geoscience and Remote Sensing Letters 14, 1223–1227 (2017).
Gastellu-Etchegorry, J.-P., Lauret, N., Yin, T., Landier, L., Kallel, A., Malenovskỳ, Z., Al Bitar, A., Aval, J., Benhmida, S., Qi, J., & others. DART: recent advances in remote sensing data modeling with atmosphere, polarization, and chlorophyll fluorescence. IEEE Journal of Selected Topics in Applied Earth Observations and Remote Sensing 10, 2640–2649 (2017).
Ferrant, S., Selles, A., Le Page, M., Herrault, P.-A., Pelletier, C., Al-Bitar, A., Mermoz, S., Gascoin, S., Bouvet, A., Saqalli, M., & others. Detection of irrigated crops from Sentinel-1 and Sentinel-2 data to estimate seasonal groundwater use in South India. Remote Sensing 9, 1119 (2017).
Fernandez-Moran, R., Wigneron, J.-P., De Lannoy, G., Lopez-Baeza, E., Parrens, M., Mialon, A., Mahmoodi, A., Al-Yaari, A., Bircher, S., Al Bitar, A., & others. A new calibration of the effective scattering albedo and soil roughness parameters in the SMOS SM retrieval algorithm. International journal of applied earth observation and geoinformation 62, 27–38 (2017).
Fernandez-Moran, R., Al-Yaari, A., Mialon, A., Mahmoodi, A., Al Bitar, A., De Lannoy, G., Rodriguez-Fernandez, N., Lopez-Baeza, E., Kerr, Y. & Wigneron, J.-P. SMOS-IC: An alternative SMOS soil moisture and vegetation optical depth product. Remote Sensing 9, 457 (2017).
Fayad, A., Gascoin, S., Faour, G., Fanise, P., Drapeau, L., Somma, J., Fadel, A., Al Bitar, A. & Escadafal, R. Snow observations in Mount Lebanon (2011–2016). Earth System Science Data 9, 573–587 (2017).
Battude, M., Al Bitar, A., Brut, A., Tallec, T., Huc, M., Cros, J., Weber, J.-J., Lhuissier, L., Simonneaux, V. & Demarez, V. Modeling water needs and total irrigation depths of maize crop in the south west of France using high spatial and temporal resolution satellite imagery. Agricultural Water Management 189, 123–136 (2017).
Al-Yaari, A., Wigneron, J.-P., Kerr, Y., Rodriguez-Fernandez, N., O’Neill, P., Jackson, T., De Lannoy, G. J. M., Al Bitar, A., Mialon, A., Richaume, P., & others. Evaluating soil moisture retrievals from ESA’s SMOS and NASA’s SMAP brightness temperature datasets. Remote sensing of environment 193, 257–273 (2017).
Al Bitar, A., Mialon, A., Kerr, Y., Cabot, F., Richaume, P., Jacquette, E., Quesney, A., Mahmoodi, A., Tarot, S., Parrens, M., & others. The global SMOS Level 3 daily soil moisture and brightness temperature maps. Earth System Science Data 9, 293–315 (2017).
Tomer, S. K., Al Bitar, A., Sekhar, M., Zribi, M., Bandyopadhyay, S. & Kerr, Y. MAPSM: A spatio-temporal algorithm for merging soil moisture from active and passive microwave remote sensing. Remote Sensing 8, 990 (2016).
Parrens, M., Wigneron, J.-P., Richaume, P., Mialon, A., Al Bitar, A., Fernandez-Moran, R., Al-Yaari, A. & Kerr, Y. H. Global-scale surface roughness effects at L-band as estimated from SMOS observations. Remote Sensing of Environment 181, 122–136 (2016).
Parrens, M., Wigernon, J.-P., Richaume, P., Al Bitar, A., Mialon, A., Fernandez-Moran, R., Al-Yarri, A., O’Neill, P. & Kerr, Y. Considering combined or separated roughness and vegetation effects in soil moisture retrievals. International Journal of Applied Earth Observation and Geoinformation 55, (2016).
Molero, B., Merlin, O., Malbéteau, Y., Al Bitar, A., Cabot, F., Stefan, V., Kerr, Y., Bacon, S., Cosh, M., Bindlish, R., & others. SMOS disaggregated soil moisture product at 1 km resolution: Processor overview and first validation results. Remote Sensing of Environment 180, 361–376 (2016).
Lievens, H., De Lannoy, G., Al Bitar, A., Drusch, M., Dumedah, G., Franssen, H.-J. H., Kerr, Y., Tomer, S. K., Martens, B., Merlin, O., & others. Assimilation of SMOS soil moisture and brightness temperature products into a land surface model. Remote sensing of environment 180, 292–304 (2016).
Landier, L., Al Bitar, A., Gregoire, T., Lauret, N., Yin, T., Gastellu-Etchegorry, J., Aubert, S., Mitraka, Z., Chrysoulakis, N., Feigenwinter, C., & others. Modeling parameters and remote sensing acquisition of urban canopies. Boundary-Layer Meteorology 94, 357–397 (2016).
Kerr, Y. H., Al-Yaari, A., Rodriguez-Fernandez, N., Parrens, M., Molero, B., Leroux, D., Bircher, S., Mahmoodi, A., Mialon, A., Richaume, P., & others. Overview of SMOS performance in terms of global soil moisture monitoring after six years in operation. Remote Sensing of Environment 180, 40–63 (2016).
Kalaoun, O., Al Bitar, A., Gastellu-Etchegorry, J.-P. & Jazar, M. Impact of demographic growth on seawater intrusion: Case of the Tripoli aquifer, Lebanon. Water 8, 104 (2016).
Hu, T., Zhao, T., Shi, J., Wang, T., Ji, D., Al Bitar, A., Peng, B. & Cui, Y. Development and analysis of a continuous record of global near-surface soil freeze/thaw patterns from AMSR-E and AMSR2 data. The Cryosphere Discussions 2016, 1–24 (2016).
Grant, J., Wigneron, J.-P., De Jeu, R., Lawrence, H., Mialon, A., Richaume, P., Al Bitar, A., Drusch, M., Van Marle, M. & Kerr, Y. Comparison of SMOS and AMSR-E vegetation optical depth to four MODIS-based vegetation indices. Remote Sensing of Environment 172, 87–100 (2016).
Ferrant, S., Bustillo, V., Burel, E., Salmon-Monviola, J., Claverie, M., Jarosz, N., Yin, T., Rivalland, V., Dedieu, G., Demarez, V., & others. Extracting soil water holding capacity parameters of a distributed agro-hydrological model from high resolution optical satellite observations series. Remote Sensing 8, 154 (2016).
Battude, M., Al Bitar, A., Morin, D., Cros, J., Huc, M., Sicre, C. M., Le Dantec, V. & Demarez, V. Estimating maize biomass and yield over large areas using high spatial and temporal resolution Sentinel-2 like remote sensing data. Remote Sensing of Environment 184, 668–681 (2016).
Al-Yaari, A., Wigneron, J., Kerr, Y., De Jeu, R., Rodriguez-Fernandez, N., Van Der Schalie, R., Al Bitar, A., Mialon, A., Richaume, P., Dolman, A., & others. Testing regression equations to derive long-term global soil moisture datasets from passive microwave observations. Remote Sensing of Environment 180, 453–464 (2016).
Verhoest, N. E., Van Den Berg, M. J., Martens, B., Lievens, H., Wood, E. F., Pan, M., Kerr, Y. H., Al Bitar, A., Tomer, S. K., Drusch, M., & others. Copula-based downscaling of coarse-scale soil moisture observations with implicit bias correction. IEEE Transactions on geoscience and remote sensing 53, 3507–3521 (2015).
Tomer, S. K., Al Bitar, A., Sekhar, M., Zribi, M., Bandyopadhyay, S., Sreelash, K., Sharma, A. K., Corgne, S. & Kerr, Y. Retrieval and multi-scale validation of soil moisture from multi-temporal SAR data in a semi-arid tropical region. Remote Sensing 7, 8128–8153 (2015).
Mialon, A., Richaume, P., Leroux, D., Bircher, S., Al Bitar, A., Pellarin, T., Wigneron, J.-P. & Kerr, Y. H. Comparison of Dobson and Mironov dielectric models in the SMOS soil moisture retrieval algorithm. IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing 53, 3084–3094 (2015).
Louvet, S., Pellarin, T., Al Bitar, A., Cappelaere, B., Galle, S., Grippa, M., Gruhier, C., Kerr, Y., Lebel, T., Mialon, A., & others. SMOS soil moisture product evaluation over West-Africa from local to regional scale. Remote Sensing of Environment 156, 383–394 (2015).
Lievens, H., Tomer, S. K., Al Bitar, A., De Lannoy, G. J., Drusch, M., Dumedah, G., Franssen, H.-J. H., Kerr, Y. H., Martens, B., Pan, M., & others. SMOS soil moisture assimilation for improved hydrologic simulation in the Murray Darling Basin, Australia. Remote Sensing of Environment 168, 146–162 (2015).
Lievens, H., Al Bitar, A., Verhoest, N. E., Cabot, F., De Lannoy, G. J., Drusch, M., Dumedah, G., Franssen, H.-J. H., Kerr, Y., Tomer, S. K., & others. Optimization of a radiative transfer forward operator for simulating SMOS brightness temperatures over the Upper Mississippi Basin. Journal of Hydrometeorology 16, 1109–1134 (2015).
Chrysoulakis, N., Heldens, W., Gastellu-Etchegorry, J.-P., Grimmond, S., Feigenwinter, C., Lindberg, F., Del Frate, F., Klostermann, J., Mitraka, Z., Esch, T., & others. Urban energy budget estimation from sentinels: The URBANFLUXES project. Mapping Urban Areas from Space (2015).
Ababou, R., Alastal, K., Astruc, D., Al-Bitar, A., Marcoux, M. & Wang, Y. Model coupling for environmental flows, with applications in hydrology and coastal hydrodynamics. La Houille Blanche 101, 9–24 (2015).
Rahmoune, R., Ferrazzoli, P., Singh, Y. K., Kerr, Y. H., Richaume, P. & Al Bitar, A. SMOS retrieval results over forests: Comparisons with independent measurements. IEEE Journal of Selected Topics in Applied Earth Observations and Remote Sensing 7, 3858–3866 (2014).
Miernecki, M., Wigneron, J.-P., Lopez-Baeza, E., Kerr, Y., De Jeu, R., De Lannoy, G. J., Jackson, T. J., O’Neill, P. E., Schwank, M., Moran, R. F., Al Bitar A. & others. Comparison of SMOS and SMAP soil moisture retrieval approaches using tower-based radiometer data over a vineyard field. Remote Sensing of Environment 154, 89–101 (2014).
Lawrence, H., Wigneron, J.-P., Richaume, P., Novello, N., Grant, J., Mialon, A., Al Bitar, A., Merlin, O., Guyon, D., Leroux, D., & others. Comparison between SMOS Vegetation Optical Depth products and MODIS vegetation indices over crop zones of the USA. Remote Sensing of Environment 140, 396–406 (2014).
Al-Yaari, A., Wigneron, J.-P., Ducharne, A., Kerr, Y., De Rosnay, P., De Jeu, R., Govind, A., Al Bitar, A., Albergel, C., Munoz-Sabater, J., & others. Global-scale evaluation of two satellite-based passive microwave soil moisture datasets (SMOS and AMSR-E) with respect to Land Data Assimilation System estimates. Remote Sensing of Environment 149, 181–195 (2014).
Al-Yaari, A., Wigneron, J.-P., Ducharne, A., Kerr, Y. H., Wagner, W., De Lannoy, G., Reichle, R., Al Bitar, A., Dorigo, W., Richaume, P., & others. Global-scale comparison of passive (SMOS) and active (ASCAT) satellite based microwave soil moisture retrievals with soil moisture simulations (MERRA-Land). Remote Sensing of Environment 152, 614–626 (2014).
Soldo, Y., Cabot, F., Rougé, B., Kerr, Y., Al Bitar, A. & Epaillard, E. SMOS-NEXT: A new concept for soil moisture retrieval from passive interferometric observations. European Astronomical Society Publications Series 59, 203–212 (2013).
Merlin, O., Escorihuela, M. J., Mayoral, M. A., Hagolle, O., Al Bitar, A. & Kerr, Y. Self-calibrated evaporation-based disaggregation of SMOS soil moisture: An evaluation study at 3 km and 100 m resolution in Catalunya, Spain. Remote sensing of environment 130, 25–38 (2013).
Leroux, D. J., Kerr, Y. H., Al Bitar, A., Bindlish, R., Jackson, T. J., Berthelot, B. & Portet, G. Comparison between SMOS, VUA, ASCAT, and ECMWF soil moisture products over four watersheds in US. IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing 52, 1562–1571 (2013).
Wigneron, J.-P., Schwank, M., Baeza, E. L., Kerr, Y., Novello, N., Millan, C., Moisy, C., Richaume, P., Mialon, A., Al Bitar, A., & others. First evaluation of the simultaneous SMOS and ELBARA-II observations in the Mediterranean region. Remote Sensing of Environment 124, 26–37 (2012).
Pan, M., Sahoo, A. K., Wood, E. F., Al Bitar, A., Leroux, D. & Kerr, Y. H. An initial assessment of SMOS derived soil moisture over the continental United States. IEEE Journal of Selected Topics in Applied Earth Observations and Remote Sensing 5, 1448–1457 (2012).
Merlin, O., Rudiger, C., Al Bitar, A., Richaume, P., Walker, J. P. & Kerr, Y. H. Disaggregation of SMOS soil moisture in Southeastern Australia. IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing 50, 1556–1571 (2012).
Kerr, Y., Waldteufel, P., Wigneron, J.-P., Boutin, J., Reul, N., Al Bitar, A., Leroux, D., Mialon, A., Richaume, P. & Mecklenburg, S. The soil moisture and ocean salinity (SMOS) mission: First results and achievements. Revue française de photogrammétrie et de télédétection 12–19 (2012).
Kerr, Y. H., Waldteufel, P., Richaume, P., Wigneron, J. P., Ferrazzoli, P., Mahmoodi, A., Al Bitar, A., Cabot, F., Gruhier, C., Juglea, S. E., & others. The SMOS soil moisture retrieval algorithm. IEEE transactions on geoscience and remote sensing 50, 1384–1403 (2012).
Al Bitar, A., Leroux, D., Kerr, Y. H., Merlin, O., Richaume, P., Sahoo, A. & Wood, E. F. Evaluation of SMOS soil moisture products over continental US using the SCAN/SNO℡ network. IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing 50, 1572–1586 (2012).
Pardé, M., Wigneron, J.-P., Zribi, M., Kerr, Y., Fanise, P., Calvet, J.-C., Albergel, C., Al bitar, A., Cabot, F., Demontoux, F., & others. Retrievals of soil moisture and optical depth from CAROLS. Progress In Electromagnetics Research 81, (2011).
Merlin, O., Al Bitar, A., Rivalland, V., Béziat, P., Ceschia, E. & Dedieu, G. An analytical model of evaporation efficiency for unsaturated soil surfaces with an arbitrary thickness. Journal of Applied Meteorology and Climatology 50, 457–471 (2011).
Merlin, O., Al Bitar, A., Walker, J. P. & Kerr, Y. An improved algorithm for disaggregating microwave-derived soil moisture based on red, near-infrared and thermal-infrared data. Remote Sensing of Environment 114, 2305–2316 (2010).
Juglea, S., Kerr, Y., Mialon, A., Wigneron, J.-P., Lopez-Baeza, E., Cano, A., Al bitar, A., Millan-Scheiding, C., Carmen Antolin, M. & Delwart, S. Modelling soil moisture at SMOS scale by use of a SVAT model over the Valencia Anchor Station. Hydrology and Earth System Sciences 14, 831–846 (2010).
Merlin, O., Al Bitar, A., Walker, J. P. & Kerr, Y. A sequential model for disaggregating near-surface soil moisture observations using multi-resolution thermal sensors. Remote Sensing of Environment 113, 2275–2284 (2009).
Conference abstracts
Corbari, C., Paciolla, N., Cezar Dos Santos Araujo, D., Labbassi, K., Sheffield, J., Berendsen, S., Al Bitar, A. & Szantoi, Z. Monitoring Anthropogenic Irrigation Water Use by assimilating satellite land surface temperature and soil moisture. in EGU General Assembly Conference Abstracts 17455 (2024).
Wongchuig, S., Paiva, R., Siqueira, V., Biancamaria, S., Papa, F., Paris, A. & Al Bitar, A. Proof-of-concept for the assimilation of multi-mission remote sensing data for large-scale discharge estimation. in EGU General Assembly Conference Abstracts EGU-3714 (2023).
Roupioz, L., Rodler, A., Guernouti, S., Al Bitar, A., Poutier, L., Briottet, X., Nerry, F. & Musy, M. Monitoring LST at canyon scale for urban micro-climate applications: in-situ, simulation and airborne data comparisons. in 2023 Joint Urban Remote Sensing Event (JURSE) 1–4 (IEEE, 2023).
Corbari, C., Paciolla, N., Hu, T., Ronellenfitsch, F. K., Schlerf, M., Bossung, C., Ceppi, A., Feki, M., Llorens, R., Skokovic Jovanovic, D., & others. Evapotranspiration and crop water use efficiency from airborne thermal infrared data at 1 to 4 m spatial resolution. in EGU General Assembly Conference Abstracts EGU-7291 (2023).
Ceschia, E., Al Bitar, A., Arnaud, L., Dejoux, J.-F., Ferlicoq, M., Fieuzal, R., Pique, G., Wijmer, T., Ihasusta, A., Carrer, D., & others. Les couverts végétaux, leviers d’atténuation du changement climatique: stockage C et effets albédo. in Atelier régional thématique Télédétection, agriculture & environnement, Pôle THEIA, Toulouse, France (https://hal.inrae.fr/hal-04222654, 2023).
Ceschia, E., Ahmad, A. B., Wijmer, T., Fieuzal, R., Arnaud, L., Dejoux, J.-F. & Pique, G. Assimilating remote sensing data in a crop model to map carbon budget and its components at large scale and high resolution. in (2023).
Al-Bitar, A., Ceschia, E., Wijmer, T., Arnaud, L., Antonenko, V. & Geraud, A. An innovative hybrid approach for soil carbon farming MRV. in COP28 (2023).
Al Bitar, A., Ceschia, E., Wijmer, T., Arnaud, L., Antonenko, V., Geraud, A., Ihasusta, A. & SOCCROP, P. Bilan Carbone des Grandes Cultures avec AgriCarbon-EO. in geodatadays, Reims, France (2023).
Wijmer, T., Ahmad, A. B., Arnaud, L., Pique, G., Fieuzal, R. & Ceschia, E. Achieving 10m regional crop CO 2 flux mapping in AGRICARBON-EO through a bayesian assimilation of Sentinel2 reflectances in SAFYE-CO2. in ESA Living Planer Symposium, 2022, Bonn, Germany (2022).
Soltani, S. S., Fahs, M., Al Bitar, A. & Ataie-Ashtiani, B. Fully coupled subsurface-land surface hydrological models: A scaling approach to improve subsurface storage predictions. in EGU 2022 (2022).
Sadat Soltani, S., Fahs, M., Al Bitar, A. & Ataie-Ashtiani, B. Fully coupled subsurface-land surface hydrological models: A scaling approach to improve subsurface storage predictions. in EGU General Assembly Conference Abstracts EGU22-2828 (2022).
Rodríguez-Fernández, N. J., Anterrieu, E., Boutin, J., Supply, A., Reverdin, G., Alory, G., Rémy, E., Picard, G., Pellarin, T., Richaume, P., & others. The SMOS-HR Mission: Science Case and Project Status. in IGARSS 2022-2022 IEEE International Geoscience and Remote Sensing Symposium 7182–7185 (IEEE, 2022).
Cornou, C., Drapeau, L., El Bakouny, Y., Lahoud, S., Polikovitch, A., Abdallah, C., Abou Chakra, C., Afif, C., Al Bitar, A., Cartier, S., & others. Seismic and air monitoring observatory for greater Beirut: a citizen observatory of the » urban health » of Beirut. in EGU General Assembly Conference Abstracts EGU22-7164 (2022).
Corbari, C., Al Bitar, A., Skokovic, D., & others. Irrigation management though the assimilation of multiple remote sensing data into an energy-water-crop model. in EGU General Assembly Conference Abstracts EGU22-10127 (2022).
Briottet, X., Roupioz, L., Barda-Chatain, R., Rodler, A., Guernouti, S., Marjorie, M., Nerry, F., Lemonsu, A., Michel, A., Poutier, L., & others. CAMCATT: a multisensor experiment over Toulouse to validate TRISHNA urban products. in TRISHNA Days (2022).
Briottet, X., Roupioz, L., Barda-Chatain, R., Rodler, A., Guernouti, S., Musy, M., Nerry, F., Lemonsu, A., Poutier, L., Barillot, P., & others. CAMCATT trial over Toulouse (France): a multisensory experiment to validate TRISHNA urban products. in 6th International Symposium: Recent Advances in Quantitative Remote Sensing 114 (2022).
Al Bitar, A., Wijmer, T., Arnaud, L., Fieuzal, R., Soussana, J.-F., Gibrin, H., Ferlicop, M., Dejoux, J.-F. & Ceschia, E. Quantification of the impact of cover crops on Net Ecosystem Exchange using AgriCarbon-EOv0. 1. in IGARSS 2022-2022 IEEE International Geoscience and Remote Sensing Symposium 5781–5784 (IEEE, 2022).
Souissi, R., Zribi, M. & Al Bitar, A. Root-zone soil moisture from process-based and remote sensing features in ANN. in Remote Sensing for Agriculture, Ecosystems, and Hydrology XXIII vol. 11856 243–253 (SPIE, 2021).
Rodríguez-Fernández, N. J., Anterrieu, E., Cabot, F., Boutin, J., Picard, G., Pellarin, T., Merlin, O., Vialard, J., Vivier, F., Costeraste, J., & others. A follow-up for the soil moisture and ocean salinity mission. in 2021 IEEE International Geoscience and Remote Sensing Symposium IGARSS 7831–7834 (IEEE, 2021).
Mancini, M., Corbari, C., Ben Charfi, I., Al Bitar, A., Skokovic, D., Sobrino, J. & Branca, G. Irrigation management through a coupled energy-water balance and crop growth model driven by remote sensing data. in EGU General Assembly Conference Abstracts EGU21-13345 (2021).
Madelon, R., Rodríguez-Fernández, N. J., Van der Schalie, R., Kerr, Y., Albitar, A., Scanlon, T., De Jeu, R. & Dorigo, W. Towards the removal of model bias from ESA CCI SM by using an L-band scaling reference. in 2021 IEEE international geoscience and remote sensing symposium IGARSS 6194–6197 (IEEE, 2021).
Guilhen, J., Parrens, M., Santini, W., Mercier, F., Al-Bitar, A., Sanchez-Perez, J. M., Martinez, J. M. & Sauvage, S. Surface Water Storage in the Floodplains of the Amazon Basin During the Last Twenty Years (1998 2018). in AGU Fall Meeting Abstracts vol. 2021 H55A-0747 (2021).
Guilhen, J., Parrens, M., Mercier, F., Al Bitar, A., Sánchez-Pérez, J.-M., Santini, W. & Sauvage, S. Daily Estimation of Inland Water Storage in the Madeira Basin During the Last Twenty Years (1998–2018). in 2021 IEEE International Geoscience and Remote Sensing Symposium IGARSS 6040–6043 (IEEE, 2021).
Corbari, C., Al-Bitar, A., Skokovic, D., Sobrino, J. & Mancini, M. Data assimilation of multiple remotely sensed data into an under-calibrated coupled energy-water-crop model for irrigation management. in AGU Fall Meeting Abstracts vol. 2021 H33G-01 (2021).
Ceschia, E., Wijmer, T., Arnaud, L., Ahmad, A. B., Fieuzal, R., Pique, G., & others. A Monitoring, Reporting and Verification framework combining remote sensing, ICOS data and crop modelling for estimating the components of the carbon budgets for croplands at plot scale over large areas. in 1st OZCAR TERENO 74 (2021).
Al Bitar, A., Wijmer, T., Arnaud, L., Fieuzal, R., Pique, G. & Ceschia, E. Quantification of Yield, Water, and Carbon budget at intra-field scale using the AgriCarbon-EO tool. in EGU21 (2021).
Al Bitar, A., Mahmoodi, A., Kerr, Y., Rodriguez-Fernandez, N., Parrens, M. & Tarot, S. Global Assessment of Droughts in the Last Decade from SMOS Root Zone Soil Moisture. in 2021 IEEE International Geoscience and Remote Sensing Symposium IGARSS 8628–8631 (IEEE, 2021).
Rodríguez-Fernández, N. J., Anterrieu, E., Cabot, F., Boutin, J., Picard, G., Pellarin, T., Merlin, O., Vialard, J., Vivier, F., Costeraste, J., & others. A new L-band passive radiometer for earth observation: SMOS-high resolution (SMOS-HR). in IGARSS 2020-2020 IEEE International Geoscience and Remote Sensing Symposium 5978–5981 (IEEE, 2020).
Najem, S., Al Bitar, A., Faour, G., Jarlan, L., Mhawej, M., Fadel, A. & Zribi, M. Drought assessment using micro-wave timeseries of precipitation and soil moisture over the Mena Region. in 2020 Mediterranean and Middle-East Geoscience and Remote Sensing Symposium (M2GARSS) 289–292 (IEEE, 2020).
Gastellu-Etchegorry, J.-P., Wang, Y., Regaieg, O., Yin, T., Malenovsky, Z., Zhen, Z., Yang, X., Tao, Z., Landier, L., Al Bitar, A., & others. Why to model remote sensing measurements in 3D? Recent advances in dart: Atmosphere, topography, large landscape, chlorophyll fluorescence and satellite image inversion. in 2020 5th International Conference on Advanced Technologies for Signal and Image Processing (ATSIP) 1–6 (IEEE, 2020).
Gastellu-Etchegorry, J.-P., Wang, Y., Regaieg, O., Yin, T., Malenovsky, Z., Zhen, Z., Yang, X., Tao, Z., Landier, L., Al Bitar, A., & others. Recent improvements in the dart model for atmosphere, topography, large landscape, chlorophyll fluorescence, satellite image inversion. in IGARSS 2020-2020 IEEE International Geoscience and Remote Sensing Symposium 3455–3458 (IEEE, 2020).
Corbari, C., Al Bitar, A., Kerr, Y., Mancini, M., & others. Irrigation and precipitation consistency with SMOS, SMAP, ESA-CCI, Copernicus, Neural Network SSM, AMSR-2 remotely sensed soil moisture. in EGU General Assembly Conference Abstracts 4951 (2020).
Al Bitar, A., Parrens, M., Guilhen, J., Fleischmann, A., Sauvage, S., Fatras, C., Sánchez-Pérez, J. M., Martínez-Espinosa, C., Kerr, Y., Pena Luque, S., & others. G-SWAF a 10 years dataset of global water dynamics from L-Band microwave: from concept to applications. in EO for Water Cycle Science (2020).
Al Bitar, A., Parrens, M., Fatras, C. & Luque, S. P. Global weekly inland surface water dynamics from L-band microwave. in IGARSS 2020-2020 IEEE International Geoscience and Remote Sensing Symposium 5089–5092 (IEEE, 2020).
Al Bitar, A., Ojha, N., Corbari, C., Merlin, O., Kerr, Y. & Mancini, M. Downscaling of L-Band microwave using Sentinel-3 land surface temperature. in EGU General Assembly Conference Abstracts 21822 (2020).
Zribi, M., Muddu, S., Bandyopadhyay, S., Bousbih, S., Al Bitar, A., Tomer, S. K. & Baghdadi, N. Analysis of L band radar data over tropical agricultural areas. in IGARSS 2019-2019 IEEE International Geoscience and Remote Sensing Symposium 6215–6218 (IEEE, 2019).
Wijmer, T., Bitar, A. A., Rivalland, V., Trepos, R. & Buis, S. Retrieval of soil water capacity at intra-plot scale using a data driven approach by combining unsupervised classification, crop modeling and Sentinel-2 remote sensing. in Geophysical Research Abstracts vol. 21 (2019).
Rodríguez-Fernández, N. J., Richaume, P., Bousquet, E., Mialon, A., Al Bitar, A., Saatchi, S. & Kerr, Y. H. Is vegetation optical depth needed to estimate biomass from passive microwave radiometers? A statistical study using neural networks. in IGARSS 2019-2019 IEEE International Geoscience and Remote Sensing Symposium 5496–5499 (IEEE, 2019).
Rodriguez-Fernandez, N. J., Anterrieu, E., Rougé, B., Boutin, J., Picard, G., Pellarin, T., Escorihuela, M. J., Al Bitar, A., Richaume, P., Mialon, A., & others. SMOS-HR: A high resolution l-band passive radiometer for earth science and applications. in IGARSS 2019-2019 IEEE International Geoscience and Remote Sensing Symposium 8392–8395 (IEEE, 2019).
Krayem, A., Al Bitar, A., Faour, G., Ahmad, A. & Najem, S. BEIRUT AS A SMART cITy: REDEFINING URBAN ENERGy. in (2019).
Kerr, Y. H., Wigneron, J.-P., Mialon, A., Al Bitar, A., Bousquet, E., Richaume, P., Rodriguez-Fernandez, N., Cabot, F., Miernecki, M., Al-Yaari, A., & others. After almost 10 years in orbit: first glance at synergisms and new results. in IGARSS 2019-2019 IEEE International Geoscience and Remote Sensing Symposium 6154–6157 (IEEE, 2019).
Wongchuig, S., Paiva, R. C., Siqueira, V. A., Collischonn, W., Biancamaria, S., Paris, A., Parrens, M., Al-Bitar, A. & Papa, F. Hydrologic fields from assimilation of in situ, multiple remote sensing or future SWOT observation. in AGU Fall Meeting 2018 (AGU, 2018).
Rodríguez-Fernández, N. J., Mialon, A., Mermoz, S., Bouvet, A., Richaume, P., Al Bitar, A., Al-Yaari, A., Brandt, M., Kaminski, T., Le Toan, T., & others. SMOS L-band vegetation optical depth is highly sensitive to aboveground biomass. in IGARSS 2018-2018 IEEE International Geoscience and Remote Sensing Symposium 9038–9041 (IEEE, 2018).
Parrens, M., Kerr, Y. & Al Bitar, A. SWAF-HR: a high spatial and temporal resolution water surface extent product over the Amazon Basin. in IGARSS 2018-2018 IEEE International Geoscience and Remote Sensing Symposium 8389–8392 (IEEE, 2018).
Paiva, R., Wongchuig, S., Siqueira, V., Collischonn, W., Biancamaria, S., Paris, A., Parrens, M., Al-Bitar, A. & Papa, F. Hydrologic fields from assimilation of in situ, multiple remote sensing or future SWOT observation. in AGU Fall Meeting Abstracts vol. 2018 OS53C-1350 (2018).
Micheneau, A., Champolivier, L., Dejoux, J., Trépos, R., Casadebaig, P., Pontet, C., Debaeke, P., & others. Predicting sunflower grain yield using remote sensing data and models. in 15. ESA Congress 180-p (2018).
Mecklenburg, S., Drusch, M., Kerr, Y., AlBitar, A., Rodriguez-Fernandez, N., Escorihuela, M. J., Piles, M. & Sabia, R. Esa’s SMOS Mission–Supporting Agricultural Applications. in IGARSS 2018-2018 IEEE International Geoscience and Remote Sensing Symposium 5933–5935 (IEEE, 2018).
Kerr, Y., Wigneron, J. P., Molero-Rodenas, B., Rodriguez-Fernandez, N., Al Bitar, A., Suere, C. & Mecklenburg, S. Synergies betwwen Smos and sentinel-3. in IGARSS 2018-2018 IEEE International Geoscience and Remote Sensing Symposium 8731–8733 (IEEE, 2018).
Gastellu-Etchegorry, J.-P., Landier, L., Al Bitar, A., Lauret, N., Yin, T., Qi, J., Guilleux, J., Chavanon, E., Feigenwinter, C., Mitraka, Z., & others. Time series of urban radiative budget maps derived from EO satellites using a physical remote sensing model. in 2018 4th International Conference on Advanced Technologies for Signal and Image Processing (ATSIP) 1–4 (IEEE, 2018).
Gastellu-Etchegorry, J.-P., Landier, L., Al Bitar, A., Lauret, N., Yin, T., Qi, J., Guilleux, J., Chavanon, E., Feigenwinter, C., Mitraka, Z., & others. Dart: A Tool For Studying Earth Surfaces-Time Series of Urban Radiative Budget From Eo Satellites. in IGARSS 2018-2018 IEEE International Geoscience and Remote Sensing Symposium 1692–1695 (IEEE, 2018).
Yin, T., Kotthaus, S., Gastellu-Etchegorry, J.-P., Morrison, W., Norford, L. K., Grimmond, S., Lauret, N., Chrysoulakis, N., Landier, L. & Al Bitar, A. Atmospheric correction of ground-based thermal infrared camera through dart model. in 2017 IEEE International Geoscience and Remote Sensing Symposium (IGARSS) 5885–5888 (IEEE, 2017).
Wigneron, J. P., Fernandez-Moran, R., Al-Yaari, A., Mialon, A., Mahmoodi, A., Al-Bitar, A., Rodriguez, N., De Lannoy, G., Lopez-Baeza, E. & Kerr, Y. Design of SMOS-IC: an alternative SMOS soil moisture and vegetation optical depth product. in RAQRS, Date: 2017/09/18-2017/09/22, Location: Valencia (2017).
Wigneron, J. P., Al-Yaari, A., Fernandez-Moran, R., Mialon, A., Mahmoodi, A., Al-Bitar, A., Rodriguez, N., De Lannoy, G. & Kerr, Y. SMOS-IC: an alternative SMOS soil moisture and vegetation optical depth product. in Satellite Soil Moisture Validation and Application Workshop, Date: 2017/09/19-2017/09/20 (2017).
Rodríguez-Fernández, N. J., de Souza, V., Kerr, Y. H., Richaume, P. & Al Bitar, A. Soil moisture retrieval using SMOS brightness temperatures and a neural network trained on in situ measurements. in 2017 IEEE International Geoscience and Remote Sensing Symposium (IGARSS) 1574–1577 (IEEE, 2017).
Micheneau, A., Champolivier, L., Dejoux, J., Pontet, C., Trépos, R., Debaeke, P., & others. Predicting sunflower grain yield using remote sensing data and statistical models. in 2017 EFITA WCCA Congress 254-p (IRSTEA, 2017).
Kerr, Y., Wigneron, J.-P., Ferrazzoli, P., Mahmoodi, A., Al-Yaari, A., Parrens, M., Bitar, A. A., Rodriguez-Fernandez, N., Bircher, S., Molero-rodenas, B., & others. SMOS data and extreme events. in EGU General Assembly Conference Abstracts 11673 (2017).
Kerr, Y. H., Wigneron, J., Cabot, F., Escorihuela, M., Anterrieu, E., Rouge, B., Rodriguez Fernandez, N., Bindlish, R., Khazaal, A., Al-Bitar, A., & others. SMOS and SMAP: from Lessons Learned to Future Mission Requirements. in AGU Fall Meeting Abstracts vol. 2017 H12G-08 (2017).
Kerr, Y. H., Wigneron, J.-P., Mahmoodi, A., Al Bitar, A., Mialon, A., Bircher, S., Molero, B., Richaume, P., Cabot, F., Rodriguez-Fernandez, N., & others. SMOS and applications: First glance at synergistic and new results. in 2017 IEEE International Geoscience and Remote Sensing Symposium (IGARSS) 5584–5587 (IEEE, 2017).
Fernandez-Moran, R., Wigneron, J. P., De Lannoy, G., Lopez-Baeza, E., Parrens, M., Mialon, A., Mahmoodi, A., Al-Yaari, A., Bircher, S., Al Bitar, A., & others. A revised SMOS soil moisture product based on a new effective scattering albedo and soil roughness parameterization. in IGARSS, Date: 2017/07/23-2017/07/27, Location: Forth Worth (2017).
Fernández-Morán, R., Wigneron, J.-P., De Lannoy, G., Lopez-Baeza, E., Parrens, M., Mialon, A., Mahmoodi, A., Al-Yaari, A., Bircher, S., Al Bitar, A., & others. SMOS-IC: A revised SMOS product based on a new effective scattering albedo and soil roughness parameterization. in 2017 IEEE International Geoscience and Remote Sensing Symposium (IGARSS) 1570–1573 (IEEE, 2017).
Colossi, B., Fleischmann, A., Siqueira, V., Bitar, A. A., Paiva, R., Fan, F., Ruhoff, A., Pontes, P. & Collischonn, W. Using SMOS for validation and parameter estimation of a large scale hydrological model in Paraná river basin. in EGU General Assembly Conference Abstracts 9360 (2017).
Bitar, A. A., Merlin, O., Malbeteau, Y., Molero-Rodenas, B., Zribi, M., Sekhar, M., Tomer, S. K., José Escorihuela, M., Stefan, V., Suere, C., & others. On the use of L-band microwave and multi-mission EO data for high resolution soil moisture. in EGU General Assembly Conference Abstracts 19219 (2017).
Al-Yaari, A., Fernández-Morán, R., Wigneron, J.-P., Mialon, A., Mahmoodi, A., Al Bitar, A. & Kerr, Y. First glance on a revised SMOS soil moisture retrieval algorithm: Evaluation with respect to ECMWF soil moisture simulations. in 2017 IEEE International Geoscience and Remote Sensing Symposium (IGARSS) 1566–1569 (IEEE, 2017).
Al Bitar, A., Parrens, M., Frappart, F., Cauduro Dias de Paiva, R., Papa, F. & Kerr, Y. What do we learn about the impact of extreme hydrological events on tropical wetlands from the synergistic use of altimetry from Sentinel-3/SARAL-Altika and L-Band radiometry from SMOS/SMAP? in EGU General Assembly Conference Abstracts 18439 (2017).
Al Bitar, A., Landier, L., Guilleron, J., Lauret, N., Gastellu-Etchegorry, J.-P., Tiangang, Y., Feigenwinter, C., Mitraka, Z. & Chrysoulakis, N. Assessing urban canopies 3d radiative and energy budgets with remote sensing and dart model. in 2017 Joint Urban Remote Sensing Event (JURSE) 1–4 (IEEE, 2017).
Sauvage, S., Sánchez-Pérez, J. M., Probst, J., Gerino, M., Martinez, J.-M., Gosset, M., Olivier, R., Laraque, A., Guérin, F., Kerr, Y. H., & others. SIMULEAU: Quantification des services naturels de régulation de la qualité des eaux dans un bassin versant du Sud: vers une plateforme intégrée pour la ressource en eau dans un contexte de changements environnementaux. in 2ème Conférence Internationale sur l’hydrologie des grands bassins Fluviaux d’Afrique-FRIEND/ISI/IAHS (2016).
Mialon, A., Cabot, F., Tarot, S., Pellarin, T., Richaume, P., Vandermarcq, O., Wigneron, J.-P., Kerr, Y. H., & others. SMOS level 3 soil moisture database. in MicroRad 2016-14. Specialist Meeting on Microwave Radiometry and Remote Sensing of the Environment vol. 4 np (Aalto University, 2016).
Landier, L., Lauret, N., Gastellu-Etchegorry, J.-P., Al Bitar, A., Mitraka, Z., Feigenwinter, C., Parlow, E., Heldens, W., Kotthaus, S., Grimmond, S., & others. Calibration of DART Radiative Transfer Model with Satellite Images for Simulating Albedo and Thermal Irradiance Images and 3D Radiative Budget of Urban Environment. in Proceedings of the 36th EARSEL Symposium 120–121 (2016).
Landier, L., Al Bitar, A., Lauret, N., Gastellu-Etchegorry, J.-P., Aubert, S., Mitraka, Z., Feigenwinter, C., Parlow, E., Heldens, W., Kotthaus, S., & others. 3D modeling of radiative transfer and energy balance in urban canopies combined to remote sensing acquisitions. in 2016 IEEE International Geoscience and Remote Sensing Symposium (IGARSS) 6738–6741 (IEEE, 2016).
Kerr, Y. H., Mahmoodi, A., Al Bitar, A., Mialon, A., Bircher, S., Molero, B., Richaume, P., Cabot, F., Rodriguez-Fernandez, N., Parrens, M., & others. SMOS after six years in operations: first glance at climatic trends and anomalies. in 2016 IEEE International Geoscience and Remote Sensing Symposium (IGARSS) 1645–1646 (IEEE, 2016).
Kerr, Y. H., Bircher, S., Rodriguez-fernandez, N., Molero, B., Parrens, M., Leroux, D., Pellarin, T., Wigneron, J.-P. & Mecklenburg, S. SMOS and hydrology. in MicroRad 2016-14. Specialist Meeting on Microwave Radiometry and Remote Sensing of the Environment vol. 4 np (Aalto University, 2016).
Kerr, Y., Bitar, A. A., Mahmoodi, A., Richaume, P., Al-Yaari, A. & Wigneron, J.-P. Extreme events monitoring from space. in EGU General Assembly Conference Abstracts EPSC2016-8780 (2016).
Georgiana Stefan, V., Merlin, O., José Escorihuela, M., AïtHssaine, B., Molero, B., Ezzahar, J., Er-Raki, S., Bitar, A. A. & Kerr, Y. Towards a robust evaporation-based disaggregation method of SMOS soil moisture by combining high-resolution shortwave/thermal and available meteorological data. in EGU General Assembly Conference Abstracts EPSC2016-8258 (2016).
Gastellu-Etchegorry, J.-P., Lauret, N., Yin, T., Aval, J., Kallel, A., Landier, L., Al Bitar, A., Guilleux, J., Jan, C. & Chavanon, E. Modeling specular reflectance and polarization in DART model for simulating remote sensing images of natural and urban landscapes. in 2016 2nd International Conference on Advanced Technologies for Signal and Image Processing (ATSIP) 517–522 (IEEE, 2016).
Gastellu-Etchegorry, J.-P., Lauret, N., Yin, T., Landier, L., Al Bitar, A., Aval, J., Guilleux, J., Jan, C. & Chavanon, E. Dart: Radiative Transfer modeling for simulating terrain, airborne and satellite spectroradiometer and LIDAR acquisitions and 3D radiative budget of natural and urban landscapes. in 2016 IEEE International Geoscience and Remote Sensing Symposium (IGARSS) 3632–3635 (IEEE, 2016).
Ferrant, S., Le Page, M., Kerr, Y. H., Selles, A., Mermoz, S., Al-Bitar, A., Muddu, S., Gascoin, S., Marechal, J.-C., Durand, P., & others. Synergetic use of Sentinel-1 and 2 to improve agro-hydrological modeling. Results of groundwater pumping estimates in south-India and nitrogen excess in south-west of France. in AGU Fall Meeting Abstracts vol. 2016 B33C-0626 (2016).
Ferrant, S., Kerr, Y., Al-Bitar, A., Le Page, M., Selles, A., Mermoz, S., Bouvet, A., Maréchal, J.-C., Tomer, S., Sekhar, M., & others. Synergetic use of Sentinel-1 and 2 to improve agro-hydrological modeling Preliminary results on Rice paddy detection in South-India. in Living Planet Symposium 2016 (2016).
Fernandez-Moran, R., Wigneron, J.-P., De Lannoy, G., Lopez-Baeza, E., Mialon, A., Mahmoodi, A., Parrens, M., Al Bitar, A., Richaume, P. & Kerr, Y. Calibrating the effective scattering albedo in the SMOS algorithm: Some first results. in 2016 IEEE International Geoscience and Remote Sensing Symposium (IGARSS) 826–829 (IEEE, 2016).
Fernandez-Moran, F., Wigneron, J., De Lannoy, G., Lopez-Baeza, E., Mialon, A., Mahnoodi, A., Parrens, M., Al Bitar, A., Richaume, P. & Kerr, Y. Calibration of the effective scattering albedo and roughness parameters in the SMOS retrieval algorithm. in Satellite Soil Moisture Validation and Application Workshop, Date: 2016/09/21-2016/09/22, Location: New York, USA (2016).
Chrysoulakis, N., Heldens, W., Gastellu-Etchegorry, J.-P., Grimmond, S., Feigenwinter, C., Lindberg, F., Del Frate, F., Klostermann, J., Mitraka, Z., Esch, T., & others. Urban Anthropogenic heat flux estimation from space: first results. in Proceedings of the 36th EARSEL Symposium 248–248 (2016).
Chrysoulakis, N., Heldens, W., Gastellu-Etchegorry, J.-P., Grimmond, S., Feigenwinter, C., Lindberg, F., Del Frate, F., Klostermann, J., Mitraka, Z., Esch, T., & others. Anthropogenic heat flux estimation from space: first results. in EGU General Assembly Conference Abstracts EPSC2016-11900 (2016).
Chrysoulakis, N., Heldens, W., Gastellu-Etchegorry, J.-P., Grimmond, S., Feigenwinter, C., Lindberg, F., Del Frate, F., Klostermann, J., Mitraka, Z., Esch, T., & others. A novel approach for anthropogenic heat flux estimation from space. in 2016 IEEE International Geoscience and Remote Sensing Symposium (IGARSS) 6774–6777 (IEEE, 2016).
Chrysoulakis, N., Feigenwinter, C., Al Bitar, A., Esch, T., Del Frate, F., Gabey, A., Gastellu-Etchegorry, J.-P., Grimmond, S., Heldens, W., Klostermann, J., & others. Anthropogenic Heat Flux Estimation from Space: The URBANFLUXES Project. in (2016).
Battude, M., Bitar, A. A., Brut, A., Cros, J., Dejoux, J.-F., Huc, M., Marais Sicre, C., Tallec, T. & Demarez, V. Estimation of yield and water requirements of maize crops combining high spatial and temporal resolution images with a simple crop model, in the perspective of the Sentinel-2 mission. in EGU General Assembly Conference Abstracts EPSC2016-14594 (2016).
Al-Yaari, A., Wigneron, J.-P., Kerr, Y., Rodriguez-Fernandez, N., O’Neill, P. E., Jackson, T. J., De Lannoy, G. J., Al Bitar, A., Mialon, A., Richaume, P., & others. First application of regression analysis to retrieve Soil Moisture from SMAP brightness temperature observations consistent with SMOS. in 2016 IEEE International Geoscience and Remote Sensing Symposium (IGARSS) 1633–1636 (IEEE, 2016).
Al-Yaari, A., Wigneron, J., Kerr, Y., O’Neill, P., Jackson, T., De Lannoy, G., Rodrigeuz-Fernandez, N., Al Bitar, A., Mialon, A., Richaume, P., & others. Evaluating soil moisture retrievals from ESA’s SMOS and NASA’s SMAP brightness temperature datasets (ESA and NASA algorithms & regression analysis). in Satellite Soil Moisture Validation and Application Workshop, Date: 2016/09/21-2016/09/22, Location: New York, USA (2016).
Al-Bitar, A., Parrens, M., Frappart, F., Papa, F., Kerr, Y. H., Cretaux, J.-F. & Wigneron, J. How are the wetlands over tropical basins impacted by the extreme hydrological events? in AGU Fall Meeting Abstracts vol. 2016 H51P-02 (2016).
Parrens, M., Wigneron, J.-P., Richaume, P., Al-Bitar, A., Mialon, A., Wang, S., Fernandez-Moran, R., Al-Yaari, A. & Kerr, Y. Global map of soil roughness using L-band SMOS data. in EGU General Assembly Conference Abstracts 10773 (2015).
Parrens, M., Al-Bitar, A., Kerr, Y., Cote, R., Richaume, P., Crétaux, J.-F., Cherchali, S. & Wigneron, J.-P. Mapping water bodies over tropical bassins from SMOS L-band brightness temperature. in EGU General Assembly Conference Abstracts 14006 (2015).
Mialon, A., Cabot, F., Bircher, S., Leroux, D., Parrens, M., Pellarin, T., Richaume, P., Rodriguez-fernandez, N., Kerr, Y. H., Wigneron, J.-P., & others. Validation of SMOS level 3 soil moisture data. in 2. SMOS Science Conference (2015).
Lievens, L., Al Bitar, A., De Lannoy, G., Drusch, M., Dumedah, G., Hendricks, F., Kerr, Y., Kumar Tomer, S., Martens, B., Pan, M., & others. Assimilation of SMOS observations to improve hydrologic simulations in the Murray Darling Basin, Australia. in IGARSS, Date: 2015/07/26-2015/07/31, Location: Milan, Italy (2015).
Lievens, H., Bitar, A. A., Cabot, F., De Lannoy, G., Drusch, M., Dumedah, G., Hendricks Franssen, H.-J., Kerr, Y., Tomer, S. K., Martens, B., & others. Assimilation of SMOS observations to improve soil moisture and streamflow simulations in the Murray Darling Basin, Australia. in EGU General Assembly Conference Abstracts 4749 (2015).
Al-Yaari, A., Wigneron, J.-P., Ducharne, A., Kerr, Y. H., Mecklenburg, S., Delwart, S., Fernandez-Moran, R., Parrens, M., Mialon, A., Richaume, P., & others. Improvements of the most recent reprocessed SMOS soil moisture products. in 2nd SMOS Science Conference (2015).
Wigneron, J.-P., Kerr, Y. H., Schwank, M., Lopez-Baeza, E., Parrens, M., Moran, R. F., Al Yaari, A., Wang, S., Richaume, P., Bircher, S., & others. A review of the latest improvements in the L-MEB Model (SMOS mission). in RAQRS’IV, 4th International Symposium on Recent Advances in Quantitative Remote Sensing (2014).
Verhoest, N., Lievens, H., Martens, B., van Den Berg, M. J., Al-Bitar, A., Merlin, O., Tomer, S. K., Cabot, F., Kerr, Y. H., Pan, M., & others. Impact of Different Data Assimilation Strategies for SMOS Observations on Flood Forecasting Accuracy. in 2014 AGU Fall Meeting (AGU, 2014).
Richaume, P., Soldo, Y., Anterrieu, E., Khazaal, A., Bircher, S., Mialon, A., Al Bitar, A., Rodriguez-Fernandez, N., Cabot, F., Kerr, Y., & others. RFI in SMOS measurements: Update on detection, localization, mitigation techniques and preliminary quantified impacts on soil moisture products. in 2014 IEEE Geoscience and Remote Sensing Symposium 223–226 (IEEE, 2014).
Pauwels, V., Verhoest, N., Lievens, H., Martens, B., van Den Berg, M., Al-Bitar, A., Merlin, O., Kumar Tomer, S., Cabot, F., Kerr, Y., & others. Impact of Different Data Assimilation Strategies for SMOS Observations on Flood Forecasting Accuracy. in AGU Fall Meeting Abstracts vol. 2014 H32E-08 (2014).
Mialon, A., Cabot, F., Guibert, S., Richaume, P., Wigneron, J.-P., Pellarin, T., Tarot, S., Bircher, S., Grant, J., Rodriguez-fernandez, N., & others. Comparison of SMOS level 2 and level 3 soil moisture at the SMOSREX site. in 4. International Symposium on Soil Water Measurement using Capacitance, Impedance and Time Domain Transmission (TDT) (PALTIN International Inc., 2014).
Lievens, H., Van Den Berg, J., Verhoest, N., Al-Bitar, A., Merlin, O., Tomer, S.-K., Cabot, F., Kerr, Y., Pan, M., Wood, E., & others. A multiscale data assimilation algorithm for SMOS. in Computational Methods in Water Resources, international conference, Date: 2014/06/10-2014/06/13, Location: Stuttgart, Germany (2014).
Lievens, H., van den Berg, J., Martens, B., Verhoest, N., Al Bitar, A., Merlin, O., Tomer, S., Cabot, F., Kerr, Y., Pan, M., & others. Impact of different data assimilation strategies for SMOS on flood forecasting accuracy. in AGU Fall Meeting, Date: 2014/12/15-2014/12/19, Location: San Francisco, CA, USA (2014).
Lievens, H., Al-Bitar, A., Cabot, F., De Lannoy, G., Drusch, M., Dumedah, G., Kerr, Y., Tomer, S., Martens, B., Merlin, O., & others. Assimilation of SMOS observations to improve streamflow simulation in the Murray Darling Basin, Australia. in SMOS for Water and Carbon Symposium, CESBIO, Date: 2014/11/13-2014/11/14, Location: Toulouse, France (2014).
Kerr, Y., Richaume, P., Mialon, A., Cabot, F., Bitar, A. A., Delwart, S., Drush, M. & Mecklenburg, S. SMOS Mission completes 4 years in orbit. in EGU General Assembly Conference Abstracts 7625 (2014).
Kerr, Y. H., Richaume, P., Wigneron, J.-P., Mialon, A., Grant, J., Lawrence, H., Ferrazzoli, P., Rahmoune, R., Mahmoodi, A., & others. SMOS retrievals of vegetation optical depth over a variety of land use: trials and tribulations. in IGARSS 2014, International Geoscience and Remote Sensing Symposium (2014).
Kerr, Y. H., Bircher, S., Boutin, J., Choné, A., Grant, J., Merlin, O., Mialon, A., Molero, B., Pellarin, T., Rautiainen, K., & others. SMOS level3 and 4: new products for new science. in MicroRad 2014, 13th Specialist Meeting on Microwave Radiometry and Remote Sensing of the Environment (2014).
Bitar, A. A., Kerr, Y., Merlin, O., Tomer, S., Molero, B., Chone, A., Cabot, F., Wigneron, J.-P. & Cherchali, S. Overview of SMOS L4 products under development and implementation at CATDS. in EGU General Assembly Conference Abstracts 14152 (2014).
Bitar, A. A., Kerr, Y., Merlin, O., Cabot, F., Choné, A. & Wigneron, J.-P. Drought index driven by L-band microwave soil moisture data. in EGU General Assembly Conference Abstracts 14340 (2014).
Alyaari, A., Wigneron, J., Ducharne, A., Kerr, Y., Al Bitar, A., de Jeu, R., Govind, A., de Rosnay, P., Albergel, C. & Munoz-Sabater, J. Performances of SMOS and AMSR-E soil moisture retrievals against Land Data Assimilation system estimates. in 2014 13th Specialist Meeting on Microwave Radiometry and Remote Sensing of the Environment (MicroRad) 19–24 (IEEE, 2014).
Alyaari, A., Wigneron, J., Ducharne, A., Kerr, Y., Wagner, W., Reichle, R., De Lannoy, G., Al Bitar, A., Dorigo, W., Parrens, M., & others. Compared performances of microwave passive soil moisture retrievals (SMOS) and active soil moisture soil moisture retriavals (ASCAT) using land surface model estimates (MERRA-Land). in IGARSS, Date: 2014/07/13-2014/07/18, Location: Quebec, Canada (2014).
Al-Yaari, A., Ducharne, A., Kerr, Y., de Rosnay, P., de Jeu, R., Govind, A., Al Bitar, A., Albergel, C., Muñoz-Sabater, J., Richaume, P., & others. Merging two passive microwave remote sensing (SMOS and AMSR_E) datasets to produce a long term record of soil moisture. in 2014 IEEE Geoscience and Remote Sensing Symposium 2269–2272 (IEEE, 2014).
Al-Yaari, A., Ducharne, A., Kerr, Y., Wagner, W., Reichle, R., De Lannoy, G., Al Bitar, A., Dorigo, W., Parrens, M., Fernandez, R., & others. Compared performances of microwave passive soil moisture retrievals (SMOS) and active soil moisture retrievals (ASCAT) using land surface model estimates (MERRA-LAND). in 2014 IEEE Geoscience and Remote Sensing Symposium 2463–2466 (IEEE, 2014).
Al-Bitar, A., Tomer, S., Lievens, H., Pauwels, V., Kerr, Y., Merlin, O., Verhoest, N., Pan, M., Wood, E., Van Den Berg, J., & others. SMOS soil moisture and brightness temperature assimilation into a Land Surface Model for water management: CDF-matching strategies and assimilation results. in International Scientific Conference on the Global Water and Energy Cycle, Date: 2014/07/14-2014/07/17, Location: Den Haag, The Netherlands (2014).
Tomer, S. K., Bitar, A. A., Sekhar, M., Merlin, O., Bandyopadhyay, S. & Kerr, Y. Synergy between passive (SMOS) and active (RADARSAT-2) microwave soil moisture over Berambadi, India. in EGU General Assembly Conference Abstracts EGU2013-9848 (2013).
Rahmoune, R., Singh, Y., Ferrazzoli, P., Kerr, Y., Richaume, P., Al Bitar, A. & Moisy, C. SMOS L2 retrieval results over the American continent and comparisons with independent data sources. in 2013 IEEE International Geoscience and Remote Sensing Symposium-IGARSS 3419–3422 (IEEE, 2013).
Lievens, H., Verhoest, N., Bitar, A. A., Cabot, F., De Lannoy, G., Kerr, Y., Pan, M., Wood, E. & Pauwels, V. Simulation of SMOS brightness temperature observations over the Upper Mississippi basin, USA. in EGU General Assembly Conference Abstracts EGU2013-7396 (2013).
Lievens, H., van den Berg, M., Verhoest, N., Al Bitar, A., Merlin, O., Kumar Tomer, S., Cabot, F., Kerr, Y., Pan, M., Wood, E., & others. Analysis of Scale Effects in the Assimilation of Smos Data Into Land Surface Models. in AGU Fall Meeting Abstracts vol. 2013 H44E-06 (2013).
Lievens, H., Pauwels, V., Al Bitar, A., Cabot, F., De Lannoy, G., Dumedah, G., Kerr, Y., Pan, M., Walker, J., Wood, E., & others. SIMULATION OF SMOS BRIGHTNESS TERMPERATURES OVER THE UPPER MISSISSIPPI (USA) AND MURRAY DARLING (AUSTRALIA) BASINS. in IEEE International Geoscience and Remote Sensing Symposium, Location: Melbourne, Australia (2013).
Lievens, H., Al Bitar, A., Cabot, F., De Lannoy, G., Dumedah, G., Hendricks-Franssen, H., Kerr, Y., Tomer, S., Merlin, O., Pan, M., & others. Assimilation of SMOS data for improving surface water management. in IEEE International Geoscience and Remote Sensing Symposium, Date: 2013/07/21-2013/07/26, Location: Melbourne, Australia (2013).
Kerr, Y., Mialon, A., Richaume, P., Al Bitar, A., Pellarin, T., & others. SMOS main results in terms of soil moisture monitoring and related applications. in (2013).
Kerr, Y. H., Richaume, P., Bircher, S., Cabot, F., Khazaal, A., Lawrence, H., Leroux, D., Merlin, O., Mialon, A., Soldo, Y., & others. SMOS: Significant findings after three years an a half in orbit. in Igarss 2013 (2013).
Kerr, Y., Cabot, F., Boutin, J., Reul, N., Pellarin, T., Wigneron, J.-P., Al Bitar, A., Jacquette, E., Berthon, L., Guibert, S., & others. The science products from the SMOS CATDS: from level 2 to level 4. in ESA Living Planet Symposium 2013 (2013).
Bircher, S., Richaume, P., Mialon, A., Berthon, L., Cabot, F., Al Bitar, A., Merlin, O., Balling, J., Skou, N., Jensen, K. H., & others. SMOS validation results from the HOBE site, Denmark. in (2013).
Berthon, L., Mialon, A., Bitar, A. A., Cabot, F., Bircher, S., Jacquette, E., Quesney, A. & Kerr, Y. H. SMOS CATDS Level 3 products, Soil Moisture and Brightness Temperature: Presentation and results. in EGU General Assembly Conference Abstracts EGU2013-9473 (2013).
Al Bitar, A., Kerr, Y., Merlin, O., Cabot, F., & others. Root zone soil moisture and drought index from SMOS. in (2013).
Al Bitar, A., Kerr, Y., Merlin, O., Cabot, F. & Wigneron, J.-P. Global drought index from SMOS soil moisture. in (2013).
Wigneron, J.-P., Novello, N., Moisy, C., Guyon, D., Lawrence, H., Schwank, M., Lopez-Baeza, E., Millan, C., Miernecki, M., Kerr, Y. H., & others. First evaluation of the SMOS observations over the VAS site: comparing different retrieval approaches. in IEEE International Geoscience and remote Sensing Symposium-IGARSS 2012 np (2012).
Tomer, S., Al Bitar, A., Sekhar, M., Merlin, O., Bandyopadhyay, S. & Kerr, Y. An Intercomparison of RADARSAT-2, SMOS and Field Measured Soil Moisture in the Berambadi Watershed, South India. in AGU Fall Meeting Abstracts vol. 2012 H13F-1425 (2012).
Pauwels, V., Lievens, H., Verhoest, N., Al Bitar, A., Cabot, F., De Lannoy, G., Drusch, M., Dumedah, G., Gascoin, S., Kerr, Y., & others. On the Assimilation of Multi-Angular SMOS Data into a hydrologic model for improving surface water management. in IEEE International Geoscience and Remote Sensing Symposium, Date: 2012/07/22-2012/07/27, Location: Munich, Germany (2012).
Mialon, A., Richaume, P., Leroux, D., Kerr, Y. H., Cabot, F., Wigneron, J.-P., & others. Comparison of dielectric models in SMOS soil moisture retrieval. in IGARSS 2012 Symposium np (2012).
Mialon, A., Al Bitar, A., Berthon, L., Bircher, S., Cabot, F., Escorihuela, M.-J., Leroux, D., Merlin, O., Pellarin, T., Kerr, Y., & others. Validation of SMOS level 3 soil moisture. in (2012).
Lawrence, H., Schwank, M., Lopez-Baeza, E., Millan, C., Kerr, Y., Al Bitar, A., Cabot, F., Leroux, D., Mialon, A., Richaume, P., & others. First evaluation of the SMOS observations over the VAS site: comparing different retrieval approaches. in (2012).
Kerr, Y., AlBitar, A., Tomer, S., Merlin, O. & Pellarin, T. Addressing the water budget with SMOS. in AGU Fall Meeting Abstracts vol. 2012 H13F-1427 (2012).
Kerr, Y., Waldteufel, P., Cabot, F., Richaume, P., Leroux, D., Al Bitar, A., Mahmoodi, A., Delwart, S., Ferrazzoli, P., Mecklenburg, S., & others. SMOS a summary of the most significant findings after two years and a half in orbit. in (2012).
Kerr, Y., Mialon, A., Bitar, A. A., Leroux, D., Richaume, P., Gruhier, C., Berthon, L., Novello, N., Rudiger, C., Bircher, S., & others. SMOS soil moisture Cal Val activities. in EGU General Assembly Conference Abstracts 7557 (2012).
Kerr, Y., Leroux, D., Richaume, P., Mialon, A., Mahmoodi, A., Al Bitar, A., Gruhier, C., Pellarin, T., Rudiger, C., De Rosnay, P., & others. Soil moisture: where are we? in (2012).
Kerr, Y., Leroux, D., Richaume, P., Wigneron, J., Mialon, A., Mahmoodi, A., Bitar, A. A., Novello, N., Gruhier, C., Pellarin, T., & others. Soil moisture retrievals: where are we? in EGU General Assembly Conference Abstracts 7860 (2012).
Berthon, L., Mialon, A., Bitar, A. A., Cabot, F. & Kerr, Y. SMOS CATDS level 3 Soil Moisture products. in EGU General Assembly Conference Abstracts 5456 (2012).
Berthon, L., Mialon, A., Al Bitar, A., Cabot, F. & Kerr, Y. SMOS CATDS Level 3 products, Soil Moisture and Brightness Temperature. in AGU Fall Meeting Abstracts vol. 2012 H13F-1429 (2012).
Wigneron, J.-P., Schwank, M., Lopez-Baeza, E., Kerr, Y. H., Novello, N., Moisy, C., Guyon, D., Lawrence, H., Cabot, F., Gruhier, C., & others. First evaluation of the SMOS observations over the VAS site. in SMOS Science Workshop np (2011).
Sahoo, A., Wood, E., Sheffield, J., Pa, M., Albitar, A., Leroux, D. & Kerr, Y. A strategy for global drought monitoring using SMOS soil moisture observations. in Geophysical Research Abstracts vol. 13 (2011).
Sahoo, A., Pan, M., Wood, E., Al Bitar, A., Leroux, D. & Kerr, Y. A Continental Scale Assessment of SMOS Derived Soil Moisture over the United States. in AGU Fall Meeting Abstracts vol. 2011 H13I-05 (2011).
Kerr, Y., Wigneron, J.-P., Ferrazzoli, P., Richaume, P., Mialon, A., Gruhier, C., Jacquette, E., Leroux, D., Waldteufel, P. & Al Bitar, A. SMOS: most significant results obtained over land. in European Geosciences Union General Assembly 2011 vol. 13 (Copernicus Publications, 2011).
Tomer, S., Bitar, A., Sekhar, M., Kerr, Y., Merlin, O., Bandyopadhyay, S. & Mohan, S. Comparison of SMOS and AMSR-E retrieved soil moisture with the field measured soil moisture data in South India. in AGU Fall Meeting Abstracts vol. 2010 H33F-1218 (2010).
Merlin, O., Rüdiger, C., Richaume, P., Al Bitar, A., Mialon, A., Walker, J. P. & Kerr, Y. Disaggregation as a top-down approach for evaluating 40 km resolution SMOS data using point-scale measurements: Application to AACES-1. in Remote Sensing for Agriculture, Ecosystems, and Hydrology XII vol. 7824 120–127 (SPIE, 2010).
Mattar, C., Sobrino, J. A., Wigneron, J.-P., Kerr, Y. H., Novello, N., Julien, Y., Jimenez-Munoz, J.-C., Soria, G., Hidalgo, V., Franch, B., & others. Synergy of SMOS microwave radiometer, thermal data and vegetation index for monitoring the water status of forest and natural vegetation. in 3rd International Symposium on Recent Advances in Quantitative Remote Sensing, RAQRS’III (Universitat de Valencia, 2010).
Lopez-Baeza, E., Albitar, A., Antolín, M. C., Balling, J., Belda, F., Bouzinac, C., Buil, A., Camacho, F., Cano, A., Carbo, E., & others. Towards validation of SMOS land products using the synergy between models, airborne and ground-based data over the Valencia anchor station. Definition of matching-up points to SMOS observations. in Proceedings of International Geoscience and Remote Sensing Symposium (2010).
Kerr, Y., Waldteufel, P., Cabot, F., Richaume, P., Jacquette, E., Bitar, A. A., Mamhoodi, A., Delwart, S. & Wigneron, J.-P. SMOS first results over land. in EGU General Assembly Conference Abstracts 8903 (2010).
Kerr, Y. H., Mialon, A., Waldteufel, P., Cabot, F., Richaume, P., Jacquette, E., Mahmoodi, A., Delwart, S., Ferrazzoli, P., Wigneron, J.-P., & others. SMOS first results of the level 2 soil moisture algorithms. in IEEE International Geoscience and Remote Sensing Symposium-IGARSS 2010 5-p (2010).
Kerr, Y. H., Cabot, F., Richaume, P., Jacquette, E., Mialon, A., Gruhier, C., Juglea, S. E., Leroux, D., Mahmoodi, A., Wigneron, J.-P., & others. SMOS SMAP synergisms for the retrieval of soil moisture. in IEEE International Geoscience and Remote Sensing Symposium np (2010).
Kerr, Y. H., Cabot, F., Richaume, P., Jacquette, E., Mialon, A., Gruhier, C., Juglea, S. E., Ferrazzoli, P., Mahmoodi, A., Delwart, S., & others. Overview of SMOS retrievals over land. in IGARSS 2010 np (2010).
Juglea, S. E., Kerr, Y. H., Mialon, A., Wigneron, J.-P., Lopez-Baeza, E., Contell, K. S., Antolín, M. C., Millan-Scheiding, C., Richaume, P., Cabot, F., & others. The first insight into the SMOS data over the Valencia Anchor Station. in MicroRad 2010, 11. Specialist Meeting on Microwave Radiometry and Remote Sensing of the Environment np (2010).
Jacquette, E., Al Bitar, A., Mialon, A., Kerr, Y., Quesney, A., Cabot, F. & Richaume, P. SMOS CATDS level 3 global products over land. in Remote Sensing for Agriculture, Ecosystems, and Hydrology XII vol. 7824 137–142 (SPIE, 2010).
Al Bitar, A., Jacquette, E., Merlin, O., Kerr, Y., Mialon, A., Cabot, F., Richaume, P., Quesney, A. & Vergely, J.-L. Multi-orbit inversion of SMOS surface soil moisture. in Proc. IGARSS2010, Honolulu, Hawaii (2010).
Al Bitar, A., Jacquette, E., Kerr, Y., Mialon, A., Cabot, F., Quesney, A., Merlin, O. & Richaume, P. Event detection of hydrological processes with passive L-band data from SMOS. in Remote Sensing for Agriculture, Ecosystems, and Hydrology XII vol. 7824 128–136 (SPIE, 2010).
Ababou, R. & Al-Bitar, A. Coupled Surface/Subsurface Flow Systems: Numerical Modeling. in Overexploitation and Contamination of Shared Groundwater Resources: Management,(Bio) Technological, and Political Approaches to Avoid Conflicts 105–117 (Springer Netherlands, 2008).
Al Bitar, A. ModÃ\copyright lisation des Ã\copyright coulements en milieu poreux hÃ\copyright tÃ\copyright rogÃnes 2D… in (2007).
Renard, P., Demougeot-Renard, H., Froidevaux, R., Al-Bitar, A. & Ababou, R. Random field approach to seawater intrusion in heterogeneous coastal aquifers: unconditional simulations and statistical analysis. in Geostatistics for Environmental Applications: Proceedings of the Fifth European Conference on Geostatistics for Environmental Applications 233–248 (Springer Berlin Heidelberg, 2005).
AL BITAR, A. & ABABOU, R. Studying the effect of Heterogeneity and Uncertainties of Salt Water Intrusion In Coastal Aquifers. in (2004).
AL BITAR, A. & ABABOU, R. Modeling of Salt Water Intrusion In Coastal Aquifers: Studying the Effect of Heterogeneity & Uncertainties. in (2004).
AL BITAR, A. Salt Water Intrusion with Heterogeneity and Uncertainty: Mathematical Modeling and Analyses. in (2004).
Kerr, Y., Richaume, P., Mialon, A., Albitar, A., Cabot, F., Wigneron, J.-P., Ferrazzoli, P., Pellarin, T., Mahmoodi, A., Grant, J., & others. SMOS results after 4 years in space. in.
Chrysoulakis, N., Heldens, W., Gastellu-Etchegorry, J., Grimmond, C., Feigenwinter, C., Lindberg, F., Del Frate, F., Klostermann, J., Mitraka, Z., Esch, T., & others. ROME 2015 SCIENCE SYMPOSIUM ON CLIMATE THE URBANFLUXES PROJECT: USING SA℡LITE DATA TO ESTIMATE ANTHROPOGENIC HEAT FLUX.
PhD Thesis
Al Bitar, A. Flow modelling in heterogeneous 2D/3D porous media with surface subsurface and variable density coupling, SDUEE, INPT Toulouse, France (2007).