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El Ghandour, F.E. (author), Alfieri, S.M. (author), Houali, Youssef (author), Habib, Adnane (author), Akdim, Nadia (author), Labbassi, Kamal (author), Menenti, M. (author)This study on a large irrigation scheme in Morocco addressed a two-fold question: (a) does the local water management authority adapt water releases to atmospheric water demand ET<sub>0</sub>-P? and (b) does crop actual evapotranspiration respond to inter- and intra-annual variability in water releases? We have evaluated the inter-annual...journal article 2019
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Liu, L. (author), Ma, Yaoming (author), Menenti, M. (author), Zhang, Xinzhong (author), Ma, Weiqiang (author)Snowfall and the subsequent evolution of the snowpack play important roles in the cryospheric and hydrospheric processes that occur on the Tibetan Plateau (TP). Current literature provides scarce evidence covering the sensitivity of solid precipitation to land surface physics schemes and initial and boundary conditions on the TP. Six numerical...journal article 2019
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Maffei, C. (author), Menenti, M. (author)Operational forest fire danger rating systems rely on the recent evolution of meteorological variables to estimate dead fuel condition. Further combining the latter with meteorological and environmental variables, they predict fire occurrence and spread. In this study we retrieved live fuel condition from MODIS multispectral measurements in...journal article 2019
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Xie, Qiuxia (author), Menenti, M. (author), Jia, Li (author)The daily AMSR-E/NASA(the Advanced Microwave Scanning Radiometer-Earth Observing System/the National Aeronautics and Space Administration) and JAXA (the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency) soil moisture (SM) products from 2002 to 2011 at 25 km resolution were developed and distributed by the NASA National Snow and Ice Data Center Distributed...journal article 2019
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Yuan, Xiaotian (author), Jia, Li (author), Menenti, M. (author), Zhou, J. (author), Chen, Qiting (author)Observing and understanding changes in Africa is a hotspot in global ecological environmental research since the early 1970s. As possible causes of environmental degradation, frequent droughts and human activities attracted wide attention. Remote sensing of nighttime light provides an effective way to map human activities and assess their...journal article 2019
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Maffei, C. (author), Alfieri, S.M. (author), Menenti, M. (author)Forest fires are a major source of ecosystem disturbance. Vegetation reacts to meteorological factors contributing to fire danger by reducing stomatal conductance, thus leading to an increase of canopy temperature. The latter can be detected by remote sensing measurements in the thermal infrared as a deviation of observed land surface...journal article 2018
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Hosseini Aria, S.E. (author), Menenti, M. (author), Gorte, B.G.H. (author)Hyperspectral images may be applied to classify objects in a scene. The redundancy in hyperspectral data implies that fewer spectral features might be sufficient for discriminating the objects captured in a scene. The availability of labeled classes of several areas in a scene paves the way for a supervised dimensionality reduction, i.e., using...journal article 2017
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Hosseini Aria, S.E. (author), Menenti, M. (author), Gorte, B.G.H. (author)One of the main steps in hyperspectral image classification is the selection of bands that provide the best separability among classes. It is usually understood that the selected bands for classification must contain a large amount of information, and the correlation among selected bands should be small to avoid redundancy. At the same time...conference paper 2017
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Bangira, T. (author), Alfieri, S.M. (author), Menenti, M. (author), van Niekerk, Adriaan (author), Vekerdy, Zoltán (author)The Caprivi basin in Namibia has been affected by severe flooding in recent years resulting in deaths, displacements and destruction of infrastructure. The negative consequences of these floods have emphasized the need for timely, accurate and objective information about the extent and location of affected areas. Due to the high temporal...journal article 2017
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Herrero Huerta, M. (author), Lagüela, S. (author), Alfieri, S.M. (author), Menenti, M. (author)Remote sensing imagery to monitor global biophysical dynamics requires the availability of thermal infrared data at high temporal and spatial resolution because of the rapid development of crops during the growing season and the fragmentation of most agricultural landscapes. Conversely, no single sensor meets these combined requirements. Data...conference paper 2017
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Wu, Y. (author), de Graaf, M. (author), Menenti, M. (author)Global quantitative aerosol information has been derived from MODerate Resolution Imaging SpectroRadiometer (MODIS) observations for decades since early 2000 and widely used for air quality and climate change research. However, the operational MODIS Aerosol Optical Depth (AOD) products Collection 6 (C6) can still be biased, because of...journal article 2017
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Huang, Tianjin (author), Jia, Li (author), Menenti, M. (author), Lu, Jing (author), Zhou, Jie (author), Hu, Guangcheng (author)We present in this paper a polynomial fitting method applicable to segments of footprints measured by the Geoscience Laser Altimeter System (GLAS) to estimate glacier thickness change. Our modification makes the method applicable to complex topography, such as a large mountain glacier. After a full analysis of the planar fitting method to...journal article 2017
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Calera, Alfonso (author), Campos, Isidro (author), Osann, Anna (author), D’Urso, Guido (author), Menenti, M. (author)The experiences gathered during the past 30 years support the operational use of irrigation scheduling based on frequent multi-spectral image data. Currently, the operational use of dense time series of multispectral imagery at high spatial resolution makes monitoring of crop biophysical parameters feasible, capturing crop water use across...review 2017
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Zheng, Chaolei (author), Jia, L. (author), Hu, Guangcheng (author), Menenti, M. (author), Lu, Jing (author), Zhou, J. (author), Wang, Kun (author), Li, Zhansheng (author)The Pan-Eurasian and African Continents are characterized by large ranges of climates varying from humid, semi-humid, semi-arid and arid regions, and great challenges exist in water allocation for different sectors that related to water resource and food security, which depends strongly on the water use information. Quantitative information...journal article 2017
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Faivre, R.D. (author), Colin, Jérôme (author), Menenti, M. (author)The parameterization of heat transfer based on remote sensing data, and the Surface Energy Balance System (SEBS) scheme to retrieve turbulent heat fluxes, already proved to be very appropriate for estimating evapotranspiration (ET) over homogeneous land surfaces. However, the use of such a method over heterogeneous landscapes (e.g., semi-arid...journal article 2017
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Phan Hien, V. (author), Lindenbergh, R.C. (author), Menenti, M. (author)Monitoring glacier changes is essential for estimating the water mass balance of the Tibetan Plateau. In this study, we exploit ICESat laser altimetry data in combination with the SRTM DEM and the GLIMS glacier mask to estimate trends in change in glacial thickness between 2003 and 2009 on the whole Tibetan Plateau. Considering acquisition...journal article 2017
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Li, Nana (author), Jia, Li (author), Lu, Jing (author), Menenti, M. (author), Zhou, J. (author)The regional surface soil heat flux (G0) estimation is very important for the large-scale land surface process modeling. However, most of the regional G0 estimation methods are based on the empirical relationship between G0 and the net radiation flux. A physical model based on harmonic analysis was improved (referred to as "HM model") and...journal article 2017
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Faivre, R.D. (author), Colin, Jérôme (author), Menenti, M. (author)This work presented in [1] was partly supported by the ESA Dragon 2 programme under proposal no. 5322: "Key Eco-Hydrological Parameters Retrieval and Land Data Assimilation System Development in a Typical Inland River Basin of China's Arid Region", a project which was coordinated at Delft University of Technology (TU Delft) with Massimo...journal article 2017
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Wu, Y. (author), de Graaf, M. (author), Menenti, M. (author)Aerosol optical depth (AOD) product retrieved from MODerate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS) measurements has greatly benefited scientific research in climate change and air quality due to its high quality and large coverage over the globe. However, the current product (e.g., Collection 6) over land needs to be further improved. The...journal article 2016
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Shang, H. (author), Jia, L. (author), Menenti, M. (author)Daily time series of microwave radiometer data obtained in one-orbit direction are full of observation gaps due to satellite configuration and errors from spatial sampling. Such time series carry information about the surface signal including surface emittance and vegetation attenuation, and the atmospheric signal including atmosphere...journal article 2016