Jia, A., Mallick, K., Lin, Z., Sulis, M., Szantoi, Z., Zhang, L., Corbari, C., Munoz, P. T., Nieto, H., Roujean, J.-L., Etchanchu, J., Demarty, J., Mwangi, S., Olioso, A., Merlin, O. & Boulet, G. (2026). Sensitivity of thermal evapotranspiration models to surface and atmospheric drivers across ecosystems and aridity. Agricultural and Forest Meteorology, 376, 110930. https://hal.science/hal-05374909v1
Penot, V., & Merlin, O. (2025). Combining Landsat optical/thermal and LiDAR High Definition data to estimate turbulent fluxes over Mediterranean forests. Science of Remote Sensing, 100323. https://hal.science/hal-05385233v1
Penot, V., Opitz, T., Pimont, F., & Merlin, O. (2025). Improved fire severity prediction using pre-fire remote sensing and meteorological time series: Application to the French Mediterranean area. Agricultural and Forest Meteorology, 371, 110588. https://hal.science/hal-05167337v1
Sebbar, B. E., Simonneaux, V., Khabba, S., Chehbouni, A., & Merlin, O. (2025). Assessing the groundwater recharge of a steep-sided catchment from thermal-derived evapotranspiration estimates: Usefulness of methods for correcting topographical effects. Journal of Hydrology, 134457. https://hal.science/hal-05385779
Laluet, P., Olivera-Guerra, L., Altés, V., Rivalland, V., Jeantet, A., Tournebize, J., … & Merlin, O. (2024). Drainage assessment of irrigation districts: on the precision and accuracy of four parsimonious models. Hydrology and Earth System Sciences, 28(16), 3695-3716. https://hal.science/hal-04610833/
Laluet, P., Olivera-Guerra, L. E., Altés, V., Paolini, G., Ouaadi, N., Rivalland, V., … & Merlin, O. (2024). Retrieving the irrigation actually applied at district scale: assimilating high-resolution Sentinel-1-derived soil moisture data into a FAO-56-based model. Agricultural Water Management, 293, 108704. https://hal.science/hal-04574717
Ouaadi, N., Jarlan, L., Le Page, M., Zribi, M., Paolini, G., Hssaine, B. A., Escorihuela, M. J., Fanise P., Merlin, O., Baghdadi, N., & Boone, A. (2024). Intercomparison of very high-resolution surface soil moisture products over Catalonia (Spain). Remote Sensing of Environment, 309, 114225. https://hal.science/hal-04764454v1
Paolini, G., Escorihuela, M. J., Bellvert, J., Merlin, O., & Pellarin, T. (2024). PrISM at Operational Scale: Monitoring Irrigation District Water Use during Droughts. Remote Sensing, 16(7), 1116. https://hal.science/hal-04764416
Pascal, C., Ferrant, S., Peña-Luque, S., Selles A., Marechal J.-C., Wijmer T., Gascoin S., & Merlin, O. (2024). Monitoring Indian ungauged small reservoirs volume from remote sensing: Feasibility, bias and perspectives. PLOS Water, 3(12), e0000260. https://hal.science/hal-04844858/
Rafi, Z., Le Dantec, V., Khabba, S., Amazirh, A., Mordelet, P., Bouras, E. H., … & Merlin, O. (2024). Proxy detection of wheat water stress from photochemical reflectance index and land surface temperature data. Agricultural and Forest Meteorology, 358, 110230. https://hal.science/hal-04764443v1
Sebbar, B. E., Malbéteau, Y., Khabba, S., Bouchet, M., Simonneaux, V., Chehbouni, A., & Merlin, O. (2024). Estimating evapotranspiration in mountainous water-limited regions from thermal infrared data: Comparison of two approaches based on energy balance and evaporative fraction. Remote Sensing of Environment, 315, 114481. https://hal.science/hal-04764433/
Laluet, P., Olivera-Guerra, L., Rivalland, V., Simonneaux, V., Inglada, J., Bellvert, J., … & Merlin, O. (2023). A sensitivity analysis of a FAO-56 dual crop coefficient-based model under various field conditions. Environmental Modelling & Software, 160, 105608. https://hal.science/hal-04296507
Olivera-Guerra, L. E., Laluet, P., Altés, V., Ollivier, C., Pageot, Y., Paolini, G., … & Merlin, O. (2023). Modeling actual water use under different irrigation regimes at district scale: Application to the FAO-56 dual crop coefficient method. Agricultural Water Management, 278, 108119. https://hal.science/hal-04296492
Pascal, C., Ferrant, S., Rodriguez-Fernandez, N., Kerr, Y., Selles, A., & Merlin, O. (2023). Indicator of flood-irrigated crops from SMOS and SMAP soil moisture products in southern India. IEEE Geoscience and Remote Sensing Letters. https://hal.science/hal-04296520v1
Penot, V., & Merlin, O. (2023). Estimating the Water Deficit Index of A Mediterranean Holm Oak Forest from Landsat Optical/thermal Data: A Phenomenological Correction for Trees Casting Shadow Effects. IEEE Journal of Selected Topics in Applied Earth Observations and Remote Sensing. https://hal.science/hal-04296511v1
Sebbar, B. E., Khabba, S., Merlin, O., Simonneaux, V., Hachimi, C. E., Kharrou, M. H., & Chehbouni, A. (2023). Machine-Learning-Based Downscaling of Hourly ERA5-Land Air Temperature over Mountainous Regions. Atmosphere, 14(4), 610. https://hal.science/hal-04296516v1
Amazirh, A., Er-Raki, S., Ojha, N., Bouras, H. E., Rivalland, V., Merlin, O., and Chehbouni, A. (2022). Assimilation of SMAP disaggregated soil moisture and Landsat land surface temperature to improve FAO-56 estimates of ET in semi-arid regions. Agricultural Water Management, 260, 107290. https://hal.science/hal-03878614/
Paolini, G., Escorihuela, M. J., Bellvert, J., and Merlin, O. (2022). Disaggregation of SMAP Soil Moisture at 20 m Resolution: Validation and Sub-Field Scale Analysis. Remote Sensing, 14(1), 167. https://hal.science/hal-03878619/
Paolini, G., Escorihuela, M. J., Merlin, O., Pamies Sans, M., and Bellvert, J. (2022). Classification of different irrigation systems at field scale using time-series of remote sensing data. IEEE Journal of Selected Topics in Applied Earth Observations and Remote Sensing. https://hal.science/hal-03878621/
Pascal, C., Ferrant, S., Selles, A., Maréchal, J.-C., Paswan, A., and Merlin, O. (2022). Evaluating downscaling methods of GRACE (Gravity Recovery and Climate Experiment) data: a case study over a fractured crystalline aquifer in southern India, Hydrol. Earth Syst. Sci., 26, 4169–4186. https://hal.science/hal-03760943/
Ait Hssaine, B., Chehbouni, A., Er-Raki, S., Khabba, S., Ezzahar, J., Ouaadi, N., Ojha, N., Rivalland, V. and Merlin, O. (2021). On the Utility of High-Resolution Soil Moisture Data for Better Constraining Thermal-Based Energy Balance over Three Semi-Arid Agricultural Areas. Remote Sensing, 13(4), 727.
Amazirh, A., Merlin, O., Er-Raki, S., Bouras, E. and Chehbouni, A. (2021). Implementing a new texture-based soil evaporation reduction coefficient in the FAO dual crop coefficient method. Agricultural Water Management, 250, 106827.
Er-Raki, S., Ezzahar, J., Merlin, O., Amazirh, A., Ait Hssaine, B., Kharrou, M.H., Khabba, S. and Chehbouni, A. (2021). Performance of the HYDRUS-1D model for water balance components assessment of irrigated winter wheat under different water managements in semi-arid region of Morocco. Agricultural Water Management, 244, 106546.
Ojha, N., Merlin, O., Suere, C. and Escorihuela, M.J. (2021). Extending the Spatio-Temporal Applicability of DISPATCH Soil Moisture Downscaling Algorithm: A Study Case Using SMAP, MODIS and Sentinel-3 Data. Frontiers in Environmental Science, 9, 40.
Ojha, N., Merlin, O., Amazirh, A., Ouaadi, N., Rivalland, V., Jarlan, L., Er-Raki, S. and Escorihuela, M.J. (2021). A Calibration/Disaggregation Coupling Scheme for Retrieving Soil Moisture at High Spatio-Temporal Resolution: Synergy between SMAP Passive Microwave, MODIS/Landsat Optical/Thermal and Sentinel-1 Radar Data. Sensors, 21(21), 7406.
Ouaadi, N., Jarlan, L., Khabba, S., Ezzahar, J., Le Page, M. and Merlin, O. (2021). Irrigation Amounts and Timing Retrieval through Data Assimilation of Surface Soil Moisture into the FAO-56 Approach in the South Mediterranean Region. Remote Sensing, 13(14), 2667.
Zheng, J., Lü, H., Crow, W.T., Zhao, T., Merlin, O., Rodriguez-Fernandez, N., Shi, J., Zhu, Y., Su, J., Kang, C.S. and Wang, X. (2021). Soil moisture downscaling using multiple modes of the DISPATCH algorithm in a semi-humid/humid region. International Journal of Applied Earth Observation and Geoinformation, 104, 102530.
Ait Hssaine, B., Merlin, O., Ezzahar, J., Ojha, N., Er-Raki, S. and Khabba, S. (2020). An evapotranspiration model self-calibrated from remotely sensed surface soil moisture, land surface temperature and vegetation cover fraction: application to disaggregated SMOS and MODIS data. Hydrology and Earth System Sciences, 24(4), 1781-1803.
Olivera-Guerra, L., Merlin, O. and Er-Raki, S. (2020). Irrigation retrieval from Landsat optical/thermal data integrated into a crop water balance model: A case study over winter wheat fields in a semi-arid region. Remote Sensing of Environment, 239, 111,627.
Román-Cascón, C., Lothon, M., Lohou, F., Ojha, N., Merlin, O., Aragonés, D., González-Dugo, M.P., Andreu, A., Pellarin, T., Brut, A. and Soriguer, R.C. (2020). Can We Use Satellite-Based Soil-Moisture Products at High Resolution to Investigate Land-Use Differences and Land–Atmosphere Interactions? A Case Study in the Savanna. Remote sensing, 12(11), 1701.
Sabaghy, S., Walker, J. P., Renzullo, L. J., Akbar, R., Chan, S., Chaubell, J., Das, N., Dunbar, R. S., Entekhabi, D., Gevaert, A., Jackson, T. J., Loew, A., Merlin, O., Moghaddam, M., Peng, J., Peng, J., Piepmeier, J., Rüdiger, C., Stefan, V., Wu, X., Ye, N., and Yueh, S. (2020). Comprehensive analysis of alternative downscaled soil moisture products. Remote Sensing of Environment, 239, 111,586.
Stefan, V.G., Merlin, O., Escorihuela, M.J., Molero, B., Chihrane, J., Villar, J.M. and Er-Raki, S., 2020. Temporal Calibration of an Evaporation-Based Spatial Disaggregation Method of SMOS Soil Moisture Data. Remote Sensing, 12(10), 1671.
Ye, N., Walker, J.P., Wu, X., de Jeu, R., Gao, Y., Jackson, T.J., Jonard, F., Kim, E., Merlin, O., Pauwels, V.R. and Renzullo, L.J. (2020). The Soil Moisture Active Passive Experiments: Validation of the SMAP Products in Australia. IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing, 59(4), 2922-2939.
Amazirh, A., Merlin, O., and Er-Raki, S. (2019). Including Sentinel-1 radar data to improve the disaggregation of MODIS land surface temperature data. ISPRS journal of photogrammetry and remote sensing, 150, 11-26.
Neuhauser, M., Verrier, S., Merlin, O., Molero, B., Suere, C., and Mangiarotti, S. (2019). Multi-scale statistical properties of disaggregated SMOS soil moisture products in Australia. Advances in Water Resources, 134, 103,426.
Ojha, N., Merlin, O., Molero, B., Suere, C., Olivera-Guerra, L., Ait Hssaine, B., Amazirh, A., Al Bitar, A., Escorihuela, M. J. and Er-Raki, S. (2019). Stepwise Disaggregation of SMAP Soil Moisture at 100 m Resolution Using Landsat-7/8 Data and a Varying Intermediate Resolution. Remote Sensing. 11(16), 1863.
Piou, C., Gay, P.-E., Benahi, A. S., Babah Ebbe, M. A. O., Chihrane, J., Ghaout, S., Cisse, S., Diakite, F., Lazar, M., Cressman, K., Merlin, O., and Escorihuela, M. J. (2019). Soil moisture from remote sensing to forecast desert locust presence. Journal of Applied Ecology, 56(4), 966-975.
Rafi, Z., Merlin, O., Le Dantec, V., Khabba, S., Mordelet, P., Er-Raki, S., Amazirh, A., Olivera-Guerra, L., Ait Hssaine, B., Simonneaux, V., Ezzahar, J., and Ferrer F. (2019). Partitioning evapotranspiration of a drip-irrigated wheat crop: Inter-comparing eddy covariance-, sap flow-, lysimeter-and FAO-based methods. Agricultural and Forest Meteorology, 265, 310-326.
Wang, Y., Merlin, O., Zhu, G., and Zhang, K. (2019). A physically based method for soil evaporation estimation by revisiting the soil drying process. Water Resources Research, 55, 9092-9110.
Ait Hssaine, B., Merlin, O., Rafi, Z., Ezzahar, J., Jarlan, L., Khabba, S. and Er-Raki, S. (2018). Calibrating an evapotranspiration model using radiometric surface temperature, vegetation cover fraction and near-surface soil moisture data. Agricultural and Forest Meteorology, 256, 104-115.
Ait Hssaine, B., Ezzahar, J., Jarlan, L., Merlin, O., Khabba, S., Brut, A., Er-Raki, S., Elfarkh, J., Cappelaere, B., and Chehbouni, G. (2018). Combining a Two Source Energy Balance Model Driven by MODIS and MSG-SEVIRI Products with an Aggregation Approach to Estimate Turbulent Fluxes over Sparse and Heterogeneous Vegetation in Sahel Region (Niger). Remote Sensing, 10(6), 974.
Amazirh, A., Merlin, O., Er-Raki, S., Gao, Q., Rivalland, V., Malbéteau, Y., Khabba, S., and Escorihuela, M. J. (2018). Retrieving surface soil moisture at high spatio-temporal resolution from a synergy between Sentinel-1 radar and Landsat thermal data: A study case over bare soil. Remote Sensing of Environment, 211, 321-337.
Escorihuela, M. J., Merlin, O., Stefan, V., Moyano, G., Eweys, O. A., Zribi, M., Kamara, S., Benahi, A. S., Babah Ebbe, M. A. O., Chihrane, J., Ghaout, S., Cissé, S., Diakité, F., Lazar, M., Pellarin, T., Grippa, M., Cressman, K., and Piou, C. (2018). SMOS based high resolution soil moisture estimates for desert locust preventive management. Remote Sensing Applications: Society and Environment, 11, 140-150.
Lehmann, P., Merlin, O., Gentine, P., and Or, D. Soil texture effects on surface resistance to bare-soil evaporation. Geophysical Research Letters, 45(19), 10,398-10,405.
Malbéteau, Y., Merlin, O., Balsamo, G., Er-Raki, S., Khabba, S., Walker, J. P. and Jarlan, L. (2018). Toward a surface soil moisture product at high spatiotemporal resolution: temporally interpolated, spatially disaggregated SMOS data. Journal of Hydrometeorology, 19(1), 183-200.
Merlin, O., Olivera-Guerra, L., Ait Hssaine, B., Amazirh, A., Rafi, Z., Ezzahar, J., Gentine, P. Khabba, S., Gascoin, and Er-Raki, S. (2018). A phenomenological model of soil evaporative efficiency using surface soil moisture and temperature data. Agricultural and Forest Meteorology, 256, 501-515.
Molero, B., Leroux, D. J., Richaume, P., Kerr, Y.H., Merlin, O., Cosh, M. H. and Bindlish, R. (2018). Multi-Timescale Analysis of the Spatial Representativeness of In Situ Soil Moisture Data within Satellite Footprints. Journal of Geophysical Research: Atmospheres, 123(1), 3-21.
Nassah, H., Er-Raki, S., Khabba, S., Fakir, Y., Raibi, F., Merlin, O., and Mougenot, B. (2018). Evaluation and analysis of deep percolation losses of drip irrigated citrus crops under non-saline and saline conditions in a semi-arid area. Biosystems Engineering, 165, 10-24.
Olivera-Guerra, L., Merlin, O., Er-Raki, S., Khabba, S. and Escorihuela, M. J. (2018). Estimating the water budget components of irrigated crops: Combining the FAO-56 dual crop coefficient with surface temperature and vegetation index data. Agricultural Water Management, 208, 120-131.
Amazirh, A., Er-Raki, S., Chehbouni, A., Rivalland, V., Diarra, A., Khabba, S., Ezzahar, J., and Merlin, O. (2017). Modified Penman-Monteith equation for monitoring evapotranspiration of wheat crop: Relationship between the surface resistance and remotely sensed stress index. Biosystems engineering, 164, 68-84.
Ayyoub, A., Er-Raki, S., Khabba, S., Merlin, O., Ezzahar, J., Rodriguez, J. C., Bahlaoui, A., and Chehbouni, A. (2017). A simple and alternative approach based on reference evapotranspiration and leaf area index for estimating tree transpiration in semi-arid regions. Agricultural Water Management, 188, 61-68.
Malik, B., Boulet, G., Olioso, A., Rivalland, V., Gallego-Elvira, B., Mira, M., Rodriguez, J.-C., Jarlan, L. and Merlin, O. (2017). Evaluation and aggregation properties of thermal infrared-based evapotranspiration algorithms from 100 m to the km scale over a semi-arid irrigated agricultural area, Remote Sensing, 9(11), 1178.
Colliander, A., Fisher, J. B., Halverson, G., Merlin, O., Misra, S., Bindlish, R., Jackson, T. J., and Yueh, S. (2017). Spatial downscaling of SMAP soil moisture using MODIS land surface temperature and NDVI during SMAPVEX15. IEEE Geoscience and Remote Sensing Letters, 14(11), 2107-2111.
Diarra, A., Jarlan, L., Er-Raki, S., Le Page, M., Aouade, G., Tavernier, A., Boulet, G., Ezzahar, J., Merlin, O., and Khabba, S. (2017). Performance of the two-source energy budget (TSEB) model for the monitoring of evapotranspiration over irrigated annual crops in North Africa, Agricultural Water Management, 193, 71-88.
Eweys, O. A., Escorihuela, M. J., Villar, J. M., Er-Raki, S., Amazirh, A., Olivera, L., Jarlan, L., Khabba, S. and Merlin, O. (2017). Disaggregation of SMOS soil moisture to 100 m resolution using MODIS optical/thermal and sentinel-1 radar data: Evaluation over a bare soil site in morocco, Remote Sensing, 9(11), 1155.
Malbéteau, Y., Merlin, O., Gascoin, S., Gastellu, J. P., Mattar, C., Olivera-Guerra, L., Khabba, S., and Jarlan, L. (2017). Normalizing land surface temperature data for elevation and illumination effects in mountainous areas: A case study using ASTER data over a steep-sided valley in Morocco. Remote Sensing of Environment, 189, 25-39.
Olivera-Guerra, L., Mattar, C., Merlin, O., Durán-Alarcón, C., Santamaría-Artigas, A., and Fuster, R. (2017). An operational method for the disaggregation of land surface temperature to estimate actual evapotranspiration in the arid region of Chile. ISPRS Journal of Photogrammetry and Remote Sensing, 128, 170-181.
Peng, J., Loew, A., Merlin, O., and Verhoest, N. E. (2017). A review of spatial downscaling of satellite remotely sensed soil moisture. Reviews of Geophysics, 55(2), 341-366.
Djamai, N., Magagi, R., Goïta, K., Merlin, O., Kerr, Y., and Roy, A. (2016). A combination of DISPATCH downscaling algorithm with CLASS land surface scheme for soil moisture estimation at fine scale during cloudy days. Remote Sensing of Environment, 184, 1-14.
Lievens, H., De Lannoy, G. J. M., Al Bitar, A., Drusch, M., Dumedah, G., Hendricks Franssen, H.-J., Kerr, Y., Tomer, S.K., Martens, B., Merlin, O., Pan, M., Roundy, J.K., Vereecken, H., Walker, J.P., Wood, E.F., Verhoest, N.E.C., and Pauwels, V.R.N (2016). Assimilation of SMOS soil moisture and brightness temperature products into a land surface model. Remote Sensing of Environment, 180, 292-304.
Malbéteau, Y., Merlin, O., Molero, B., Rüdiger, C., and Bacon, S. (2016). DisPATCh as a tool to evaluate coarse-scale remotely sensed soil moisture using localized in situ measurements: Application to SMOS and AMSR-E data in Southeastern Australia. International Journal of Applied Earth Observation and Geoinformation, 45, 221-234.
Merlin, O., Stefan, V. G., Amazirh, A., Chanzy, A., Ceschia, E., Er-Raki, S., Gentine, P., Tallec, T., Ezzahar, J., Bircher, S., Beringer, J., and Khabba, S. (2016). Modeling soil evaporation efficiency in a range of soil and atmospheric conditions using a meta‐analysis approach. Water Resources Research, 52(5), 3663-3684.
Molero, B., Merlin, O., Malbéteau, Y., Al Bitar, A., Cabot, F., Stefan, V., Kerr, Y., Bacon, S., Cosh, M.H., Bindlish, R., and Jackson, T. J. (2016). SMOS disaggregated soil moisture product at 1 km resolution: Processor overview and first validation results. Remote Sensing of Environment, 180, 361-376.
Bandara R., J. P. Walker, C. Rüdiger and O. Merlin (2015), Towards soil property retrieval from space: An application with disaggregated satellite observations, Journal of Hydrology, 522, 582-593.
Boulet, G., Mougenot, B., Lhomme, J. P., Fanise, P., Lili-Chabaane, Z., Olioso, A., Bahir, M., Rivalland, V., Jarlan, L., Merlin, O., Coudert, B., Er-Raki, S., Lagouarde, J.-P. (2015). The SPARSE model for the prediction of water stress and evapotranspiration components from thermal infra-red data and its evaluation over irrigated and rainfed wheat. Hydrology and Earth System Sciences, 11 (19), 4653-4672.
Djamai N., R. Magagi, K. Goita, O. Merlin, Y. H. Kerr and A. Walker (2015). Disaggregation of SMOS Soil Moisture over the Canadian Prairies, Remote Sensing of Environment, 170, 255-268.
Dumedah G., J. P. Walker and O. Merlin (2015). Root-zone soil moisture estimation from assimilation of downscaled Soil Moisture and Ocean Salinity data, Advances in Water Resources, 84, 14-22.
Jarlan L., S. Khabba, S. Er-Raki, M. Le Page, L. Hanich, Y. Fakir, O. Merlin, S. Mangiarotti, S. Gascoin, J. Ezzahar, M.H. Kharrou, B. Berjamy, A. Saaïdi, A. Boudhar, A. Benkaddour, N. Laftouhi, J. Abaoui, A. Tavernier, G. Boulet, V. Simonneaux, F. Driouech, M. El Adnani, A. El Fazziki, N. Amenzou, F. Raibi, A. El Mandour, H. Ibouh, V. Le Dantec, F. Habets, Y. Tramblay, B. Mougenot, M. Leblanc, L. Drapeau, B. Coudert, O. Hagolle, N. Filali, S. Belaqziz, A. Marchane, J. Toumi, A. Diarra, G. Aouade, Y. Hajhouji, G. Bigeard, J. Chirouze, K. Boukhari, B. Richard, P. Fanise, M. Kasbani, A. Chakir, M. Zribi, H. Marah, A. Mokssit, Y. Kerr, and R. Escadafal (2015). Remote Sensing of Water Resources in the semi-arid Mediterranean areas: The Joint International Laboratory TREMA, International Journal of Remote Sensing, 36(19-20), 4879-4917.
Lievens, H., A. Al Bitar, N. E. C. Verhoest, F. Cabot, G. De Lannoy, M. Drusch, G. Dumedah, H.-J. Hendricks-Franssen, Y. Kerr, S. K. Tomer, B. Martens, O. Merlin, M. Pan, M. J. van den Berg, H. Vereecken, J. P. Walker, E. F. Wood, and V. R. N. Pauwels (2015). Optimization of a radiative transfer forward operator for simulating SMOS brightness temperatures over the Upper Mississippi Basin, USA, Journal of Hydrometeorology, 16, 1109-1134.
Merlin O., Y. Malbéteau, Y. Notfi, S. Bacon, S. Er-Raki, S. Khabba and L. Jarlan (2015). Performance metrics for soil moisture downscaling methods: Application to DISPATCH data in central Morocco, Remote Sensing, 7(4), 3783-3807.
Stefan V. G., O. Merlin, S. Er-Raki, M.J. Escorihuela, and S. Khabba (2015). Consistency between in situ, model-derived and image-based soil temperature endmembers: towards a robust data-based model for multi-resolution monitoring of crop evapotranspiration, Remote Sensing, 7(8), 10444-10479.
Chirouze, J., Boulet, G., Jarlan, L., Fieuzal, R., Rodriguez, J. C., Ezzahar, J., Er-Raki, S., Bigeard, G., Merlin, O., Garatuza-Payan, J., Watts, C., and Chehbouni, G.: Intercomparison of four remote-sensing-based energy balance methods to retrieve surface evapotranspiration and water stress of irrigated fields in semi-arid climate, Hydrol. Earth Syst. Sci., 18, 1165-1188, 2014.
Lawrence, H., J. P. Wigneron, P. Richaume, N. Novello, J. Grant, A. Mialon, A. Al Bitar, O. Merlin, D. Guyon, D. Leroux, S. Bircher, and Y. Kerr, 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.
Merlin O., J. Chirouze, A. Olioso, L. Jarlan, G. Chehbouni, and G. Boulet, An image-based four-source surface energy balance model to estimate crop evapotranspiration from solar reflectance/thermal emission data (SEB-4S), Agricultural and Forest Meteorology, 184, 188-203, 2014.
Merlin O., An original interpretation of the wet edge of the surface temperature–albedo space to estimate crop evapotranspiration (SEB-1S), and its validation over an irrigated area in northwestern Mexico, Hydrol. Earth Syst. Sci., 17, 3637-3637, 2013.
Merlin O., M. J. Escorihuela, M. A. Mayoral, O. Hagolle, A. Al Bitar, and Y. Kerr, 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.
Al Bitar A., D. Leroux, Y. Kerr, O. Merlin, P. Richaume, A. Sahoo and E. Wood, A first evaluation of SMOS soil moisture products over continental US using the SCAN/SNOTEL network, IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing, SMOS Special Issue, 50(5), 1572-1586, 2012.
Merlin O., C. Rüdiger, A. Al Bitar, P. Richaume, J. Walker and Y. Kerr, Disaggregation of SMOS soil moisture in southeastern Australia, IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing, SMOS Special Issue, 50(5), 1556-1571, 2012.
Merlin O., F. Jacob, J.-P. Wigneron, J. Walker and G. Chehbouni, Multi-dimensional disaggregation of land surface temperature using high-resolution red, near-infrared, shortwave-infrared and microwave-L bands, IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing, 50(5), 1864-1880, 2012.
Fieuzal R., Duchemin B., Jarlan L., Zribi M., Baup F., Merlin O., Hagolle O. and Garatuza-Payan J., Combined use of optical and radar satellite data for the monitoring of irrigation and soil moisture of wheat crops, Hydrology and Earth System Sciences, 15, 1117-1129, 2011.
Merlin O., Al Bitar A., Rivalland V., Béziat P., Ceschia E. and 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.
Mladenova I., Lakshmi V., Jackson T. J., Walker J. P., Merlin O., and de Jeu R. A. M., Validation of AMSR-E soil moisture using L-band airborne radiometer data from National Airborne Field Experiment 2006, Remote Sensing of Environment, 115(8), 2096-2103, 2011.
Merlin O., Duchemin B., Hagolle O., Frédéric J., Coudert B., Chehbouni A., Dedieu G., Garatuza J. and Kerr Y., Disaggregation of MODIS surface temperature over an agricultural area using a time series of Formosat-2 images, Remote Sensing of Environment, 114, 2500-2512, 2010.
Merlin O., Al Bitar A., Walker J. P. and 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(10), 2305-2316, 2010.
Merlin O., Al Bitar A., Walker J. P. and Kerr Y., A sequential model for disaggregating near-surface soil moisture observations using multi-resolution thermal sensors, Remote Sensing of Environment, 113(10), 2275-2284, 2009.
Merlin O., Walker J. P., Panciera R., Escorihuela M. J. and Jackson T., Assessing the SMOS soil moisture retrieval parameters with high-resolution NAFE’06 data, IEEE Geoscience and Remote Sensing Letters, 6(4), 635-639, 2009.
Panciera R., Walker J. P. and Merlin O., Improved understanding of soil surface roughness parameterization for L-band passive microwave soil moisture retrieval, IEEE Geoscience and Remote Sensing Letters, 6(4), 625-629, 2009.
Chehbouni A., R. Escadafal, G. Boulet, B. Duchemin, V. Simmoneaux, G. Dedieu, B. Mougenot, S. Khabba, H. Kharrou, O. Merlin, A. Chaponnière, J. Ezzahar, S. Erraki, J. Hoedjes, R. Hadria, H. Abourida, A. Cheggour, F. Raibi, L. Hanich, N. Guemouria, Ah Chehbouni, A. Olioso, F. Jacob and J. Sobrino, The Use of Remotely Sensed data for Integrated Hydrological Modeling in Arid and Semi-Arid Regions: the SUDMED Program, International Journal of Remote Sensing, 29(17-18), 5161-5181, 2008.
Escorihuela M. J., Saleh K., Richaume P., Merlin O., Walker J. P. and Kerr Y. H., Sunglint observations over land from ground and airborne L-band radiometer data, Geophysical Research Letters, 35, L20406, 2008.
Merlin O., Walker J. P., Chehbouni A., and Kerr Y., Towards deterministic downscaling of SMOS soil moisture using MODIS derived soil evaporative efficiency, Remote Sensing of Environment, 112(10), 3935-3956, 2008.
Merlin O., Walker J. P., Kalma J. D., Kim E. J., Hacker J., Panciera R., Young R., Summerell G., Hornbuckle J., Hafeez M., and Jackson T., The NAFE’06 data set: towards soil moisture retrieval at intermediate resolution, Advances in Water Resources, 31(11), 1444-1455, 2008.
Merlin O., Chehbouni A., Walker J. P., Panciera R., and Kerr Y., A simple method to disaggregate passive microwave-based soil moisture, IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing, SMOS special issue, 46(3), 786-796, 2008.
Panciera R., Walker J. P., Kalma J. D., Kim E. J., Hacker J., Merlin O., Berger M. and Skou N., The NAFE’05/CoSMOS data set: toward SMOS calibration, downscaling and assimilation, IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing, SMOS special issue, 46(3), 736-745, 2008.
Teuling A.J., Uijlenhoet R., Hurkmans R., Merlin O., Panciera R., Walker J., and Troch P.A., Dry-end surface soil moisture variability during NAFE’06, Journal of Geophysical Research Letters, 34, L17402, 2007.
Merlin O., Chehbouni A., Kerr Y. and Goodrich D., A downscaling method for distributing surface soil moisture within a microwave pixel: application to the Monsoon ’90 data, Remote Sensing of Environment, 101(3), 379-389, 2006.
Merlin O., Chehbouni A., Boulet G. and Kerr Y., Assimilation of disaggregated microwave soil moisture into a hydrologic model using coarse-scale meteorological data, Journal of Hydrometeorology, 7(6), 1308-1322, 2006.
Merlin O., Chehbouni A., Kerr Y., Njoku E. and Entekhabi D., A combined modeling and multi-spectral/multi-resolution remote sensing approach for disaggregation of surface soil moisture: application to SMOS configuration, IEEE Transaction on Geosciences and Remote Sensing, 43(9), 2036-2050, 2005.
Merlin O. and Chehbouni A., Different approaches in estimating heat flux using dual angle observations of radiative surface temperature, International Journal of Remote Sensing, 25(1), 275-289, 2004.
