Soil Moisture Active/Passive Validation Experiment Within the Canadian Boreal Forest in 2022 (SMAPVEX22-Boreal).

Ramata Magagi Ramata D. Magagi https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9489-6060

Aaron A. Berg Kayla Wicks Jaison Thomas Ambadan Alexandre Roy Ramata Magagi Warren Helgason Andreas Colliander Zohreh Alijani Yasaman Amini Michael H. Cosh Jay Creen Azza Gorrab Heather C. MacRae Kyle McDonald Koreen Millard Sidharth Misra Arnab Muhuri Mehmet Ogut Nathan Riis Camille Roy Hesam Salmabadi Nicholas Steiner Erica Tetlock Hongquan Wang Xiaoyong Xu Simon Yueh Soil Moisture Active/Passive Validation Experiment Within the Canadian Boreal Forest in 2022 (SMAPVEX22-Boreal). 11816-11834 2025 18 IEEE J. Sel. Top. Appl. Earth Obs. Remote. Sens. https://doi.org/10.1109/JSTARS.2025.3564195 db/journals/staeors/staeors18.html#BergWARMHCAACCGMMMMMORR25 streams/journals/staeors

Bhanu Prakash Mookkuthala Erkaramana Kalifa Goïta Ramata Magagi Hongquan Wang Analysis of Radarsat Constellation Mission Compact Polarimetric Data for Crop Monitoring. 1460-1464 2024 IGARSS https://doi.org/10.1109/IGARSS53475.2024.10641414 conf/igarss/2024 db/conf/igarss/igarss2024.html#ErkaramanaGMW24 streams/conf/igarss

Kalifa Goïta Ramata Magagi Vincent Beauregard Hongquan Wang Retrieval of Surface Soil Moisture over Wheat Fields during Growing Season Using C-Band Polarimetric SAR Data. 4925 2023 October 15 Remote. Sens. 20 https://doi.org/10.3390/rs15204925 db/journals/remotesensing/remotesensing15.html#GoitaMBW23

Arnab Muhuri Kalifa Goïta Ramata Magagi Hongquan Wang Soil Moisture Retrieval During Crop Growth Cycle Using Satellite SAR Time Series. 9517-9534 2023 16 IEEE J. Sel. Top. Appl. Earth Obs. Remote. Sens. https://doi.org/10.1109/JSTARS.2023.3280181 db/journals/staeors/staeors16.html#MuhuriGMW23

Arnab Muhuri Kalifa Goïta Ramata Magagi Hongquan Wang Geodesic Distance Based Scattering Power Decomposition for Compact Polarimetric SAR Data. 1-12 2023 61 IEEE Trans. Geosci. Remote. Sens. https://doi.org/10.1109/TGRS.2023.3304710 db/journals/tgrs/tgrs61.html#MuhuriGMW23

Hongquan Wang Ramata Magagi Kalifa Goïta Andreas Colliander Multi-resolution soil moisture retrievals by disaggregating SMAP brightness temperatures with RADARSAT-2 polarimetric decompositions. 103114 2022 115 Int. J. Appl. Earth Obs. Geoinformation https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jag.2022.103114 db/journals/aeog/aeog115.html#WangMGC22

Ramata Magagi Safa Jammali Kalifa Goïta Hongquan Wang Andreas Colliander Potential of L- and C- Bands Polarimetric SAR Data for Monitoring Soil Moisture over Forested Sites. 5317 2022 14 Remote. Sens. 21 https://doi.org/10.3390/rs14215317 db/journals/remotesensing/remotesensing14.html#MagagiJGWC22

Andreas Colliander Michael H. Cosh Aaron Berg Sidharth Misra Jaison Thomas Ambadan Laura L. Bourgeau-Chavez Vicky Kelly Simon Kraatz Paul Siqueira Alexandre Roy Warren Helgason Ramata Magagi Tarendra Lakhankar Mehmet Ogut Julian Chaubell Scott Dunbar Jay Famiglietti Alexandra Georges Konings Mehmet Kurum Dara Entekhabi Simon H. Yueh Development of SMAP Retrievals for Forested Regions: SMAPVEX19-22 and SMAPVEX22-Boreal. 4228-4231 2022 IGARSS https://doi.org/10.1109/IGARSS46834.2022.9884441 conf/igarss/2022 db/conf/igarss/igarss2022.html#CollianderCBMAB22

Hongquan Wang Ramata Magagi Kalifa Goïta Andreas Colliander Thomas J. Jackson Heather McNairn Jarrett Powers Soil moisture retrieval over a site of intensive agricultural production using airborne radiometer data. 102287 2021 97 Int. J. Appl. Earth Obs. Geoinformation https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jag.2020.102287 db/journals/aeog/aeog97.html#WangMGCJMP21

Cheng Tong Hongquan Wang Ramata Magagi Kalifa Goïta Ke Wang 0016 Spatial Gap-Filling of SMAP Soil Moisture Pixels Over Tibetan Plateau via Machine Learning Versus Geostatistics. 9899-9912 2021 14 IEEE J. Sel. Top. Appl. Earth Obs. Remote. Sens. https://doi.org/10.1109/JSTARS.2021.3112623 db/journals/staeors/staeors14.html#TongWMGW21

Jawad Ziyad Kalifa Goïta Ramata Magagi Fabien Blarel Frédéric Frappart Improving the Estimation of Water Level over Freshwater Ice Cover using Altimetry Satellite Active and Passive Observations. 967 2020 12 Remote. Sens. 6 https://doi.org/10.3390/rs12060967 db/journals/remotesensing/remotesensing12.html#ZiyadGMBF20

Cheng Tong Hongquan Wang Ramata Magagi Kalifa Goïta Luyao Zhu Mengying Yang Jinsong Deng Soil Moisture Retrievals by Combining Passive Microwave and Optical Data. 3173 2020 12 Remote. Sens. 19 https://doi.org/10.3390/rs12193173 db/journals/remotesensing/remotesensing12.html#TongWMGZYD20

Hongquan Wang Ramata Magagi Kalifa Goita Thomas Jagdhuber Refining a Polarimetric Decomposition of Multi-Angular UAVSAR Time Series for Soil Moisture Retrieval Over Low and High Vegetated Agricultural Fields. 1431-1450 2019 12 IEEE J. Sel. Top. Appl. Earth Obs. Remote. Sens. 5 https://doi.org/10.1109/JSTARS.2019.2909984 https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q127955038 db/journals/staeors/staeors12.html#WangMGJ19

Ali Ben Abbes Ramata Magagi Kalifa Goita Soil Moisture Estimation From Smap Observations Using Long Short- Term Memory (LSTM). 1590-1593 2019 IGARSS https://doi.org/10.1109/IGARSS.2019.8898418 conf/igarss/2019 db/conf/igarss/igarss2019.html#AbbesMG19 Hongquan Wang Ramata Magagi Kalifa Goïta Mélanie Trudel Heather McNairn Jarrett Powers Crop Phenology Retrieval from Polarimetric Decomposition and Random Forest Algorithm During Smapvex16-Mb Campaign. 7204-7207 2019 IGARSS https://doi.org/10.1109/IGARSS.2019.8900385 conf/igarss/2019 db/conf/igarss/igarss2019.html#WangMGTMP19 Daniel Enrique Constantino-Recillas Alejandro Monsivais-Huertero Jose Carlos Jimenez-Escalona Enrique Zempoaltécatl-Ramirez Ramata Magagi Kalifa Goita A Semi-Empirical Model to Estimate Biophysical Parameters in Southern Mexico. 5344-5347 2018 IGARSS https://doi.org/10.1109/IGARSS.2018.8518991 conf/igarss/2018 db/conf/igarss/igarss2018.html#Constantino-Recillas18

Imen Gherboudj Ramata Magagi Aaron A. Berg Brenda Toth Characterization of the Spatial Variability of In-Situ Soil Moisture Measurements for Upscaling at the Spatial Resolution of RADARSAT-2. 1813-1823 2017 10 IEEE J. Sel. Top. Appl. Earth Obs. Remote. Sens. 5 https://doi.org/10.1109/JSTARS.2017.2649219 https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q61734903 db/journals/staeors/staeors10.html#GherboudjMBT17

Andreas Colliander Thomas J. Jackson Michael H. Cosh Sidharth Misra Rajat Bindlish Jarrett Powers Heather McNairn Paul Bullock Aaron Berg Ramata Magagi Peggy O'Neill Simon Yueh Soil moisture retrieval with airborne PALS instrument over agricultural areas in SMAPVEX16. 3949-3952 2017 IGARSS https://doi.org/10.1109/IGARSS.2017.8127864 conf/igarss/2017 db/conf/igarss/igarss2017.html#CollianderJCMBP17 Hongquan Wang Ramata Magagi Kalifa Goita Polarimetric decomposition of multi-angular SAR data for soil moisture retrieval over agricultural fields. 4947-4950 2017 IGARSS https://doi.org/10.1109/IGARSS.2017.8128114 conf/igarss/2017 db/conf/igarss/igarss2017.html#WangMG17

Hongquan Wang Ramata Magagi Kalifa Goita Polarimetric Decomposition for Monitoring Crop Growth Status. 870-874 2016 13 IEEE Geosci. Remote. Sens. Lett. 6 https://doi.org/10.1109/LGRS.2016.2551377 db/journals/lgrs/lgrs13.html#WangMG16

Hongquan Wang Ramata Magagi Kalifa Goita Thomas Jagdhuber Irena Hajnsek Evaluation of Simplified Polarimetric Decomposition for Soil Moisture Retrieval over Vegetated Agricultural Fields. 142 2016 8 Remote. Sens. 2 https://doi.org/10.3390/rs8020142 db/journals/remotesensing/remotesensing8.html#WangMGJH16

Hongquan Wang Ramata Magagi Kalifa Goita Polarimetric decomposition of C-band SAR data for soil moisture retrieval over agricultural fields. 1687-1690 2016 IGARSS https://doi.org/10.1109/IGARSS.2016.7729431 conf/igarss/2016 db/conf/igarss/igarss2016.html#WangMG16 Vincent Beauregard Kalifa Goita Ramata Magagi Empirical model for surface soil moisture estimation over wheat fields using C-band polarimetric SAR. 1695-1698 2016 IGARSS https://doi.org/10.1109/IGARSS.2016.7729433 conf/igarss/2016 db/conf/igarss/igarss2016.html#BeauregardGM16 Hongquan Wang Ramata Magagi Kalifa Goita Assessment of the SMAP L3/AP soil moisture product using international ground observation network. 3082-3085 2016 IGARSS https://doi.org/10.1109/IGARSS.2016.7729797 conf/igarss/2016 db/conf/igarss/igarss2016.html#WangMG16a Alejandro Monsivais-Huertero Jose Carlos Jimenez-Escalona Jose Mauricio Galeana-Pizaña Aura Citlalli Torres-Gomez Ramata Magagi Kalifa Goita Enrique Zempoaltécatl-Ramirez Enrique Constantino-Recillas Jesus Daniel Juarez-Vazquez Juan Carlos Hernández-Sánchez Understanding the dynamic of a tropical forest located in Southern Mexico using remotely sensed data. 3826-3829 2016 IGARSS https://doi.org/10.1109/IGARSS.2016.7729992 conf/igarss/2016 db/conf/igarss/igarss2016.html#Monsivais-Huertero16 Mohamed Y. A. Toure Kalifa Goita Ramata Magagi Ally M. Toure Comparison of in situ and grace estimated groundwater in the Canadian prairies. 7639-7642 2016 IGARSS https://doi.org/10.1109/IGARSS.2016.7730992 conf/igarss/2016 db/conf/igarss/igarss2016.html#ToureGMT16

Heather McNairn Thomas J. Jackson Grant Wiseman Stephane Belair Aaron Berg Paul Bullock Andreas Colliander Michael H. Cosh Seung-Bum Kim Ramata Magagi Mahta Moghaddam Eni G. Njoku Justin R. Adams Saeid Homayouni Emmanuel Ojo Tracy L. Rowlandson Jiali Shang Kalifa Goita Mehdi Hosseini The Soil Moisture Active Passive Validation Experiment 2012 (SMAPVEX12): Prelaunch Calibration and Validation of the SMAP Soil Moisture Algorithms. 2784-2801 2015 53 IEEE Trans. Geosci. Remote. Sens. 5 https://doi.org/10.1109/TGRS.2014.2364913 https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q61734951 db/journals/tgrs/tgrs53.html#McNairnJWBBBCCKMMNAHORSGH15

Hongquan Wang Ramata Magagi Kalifa Goita Thomas Jagdhuber Najib Djamai Evaluation of polarimetric decomposition for soil moisture retrieval over vegetated agricultural fields. 689-692 2015 IGARSS https://doi.org/10.1109/IGARSS.2015.7325857 conf/igarss/2015 db/conf/igarss/igarss2015.html#WangMGJD15 Jean-Samuel Proulx-Bourque Ramata Magagi Stereoradargrammetric generation of digital surface models with RADARSAT-2 in Northern Canada. 3846-3849 2015 IGARSS https://doi.org/10.1109/IGARSS.2015.7326663 conf/igarss/2015 db/conf/igarss/igarss2015.html#Proulx-BourqueM15 Jean-Samuel Proulx-Bourque Ramata Magagi Norman T. O'Neill Pierre Gravel Digital surface model generation using optimal RADARSAT-2 images. 1198-1201 2014 IGARSS https://doi.org/10.1109/IGARSS.2014.6946646 conf/igarss/2014 db/conf/igarss/igarss2014.html#Proulx-BourqueMOG14 Najib Djamai Ramata Magagi Kalifa Goita Olivier Merlin Yann H. Kerr Anne E. Walker Downscaling SMOS derived soil moisture for very wet conditions using a physically based approach. 3198-3201 2014 IGARSS https://doi.org/10.1109/IGARSS.2014.6947158 conf/igarss/2014 db/conf/igarss/igarss2014.html#DjamaiMGMKW14

Ramata Magagi Aaron Berg Kalifa Goita Stephane Belair Thomas J. Jackson Brenda Toth Anne E. Walker Heather McNairn Peggy O'Neill Mahta Moghaddam Imen Gherboudj Andreas Colliander Michael H. Cosh Mariko Burgin Joshua B. Fisher Seung-Bum Kim Iliana Mladenova Najib Djamai Louis-Philippe Rousseau Jon Belanger Jiali Shang Amine Merzouki Canadian Experiment for Soil Moisture in 2010 (CanEx-SM10): Overview and Preliminary Results. 347-363 2013 51 IEEE Trans. Geosci. Remote. Sens. 1 https://doi.org/10.1109/TGRS.2012.2198920 https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q58053513 db/journals/tgrs/tgrs51.html#MagagiBGBJTWMOMGCCBFKMDRBSM13

Imen Gherboudj Ramata Magagi Kalifa Goita Aaron Berg Brenda Toth Anne E. Walker Validation of SMOS Data Over Agricultural and Boreal Forest Areas in Canada. 1623-1635 2012 50 IEEE Trans. Geosci. Remote. Sens. 5-1 https://doi.org/10.1109/TGRS.2012.2188532 https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q61734983 db/journals/tgrs/tgrs50.html#GherboudjMGBTW12

Mélanie Trudel Ramata Magagi Hardy B. Granberg Application of Target Decomposition Theorems Over Snow-Covered Forested Areas. 508-512 2009 47 IEEE Trans. Geosci. Remote. Sens. 2 https://doi.org/10.1109/TGRS.2008.2009122 db/journals/tgrs/tgrs47.html#TrudelMG09

Louis-Philippe Rousseau Ramata Magagi Robert Leconte Aaron Berg Brenda Toth Potentials of RADARSAT-2 Data to Monitor Freezing/Thawing Cycles over Agricultural Lands in Canada. II:598-601 2009 IGARSS (2) https://doi.org/10.1109/IGARSS.2009.5418155 https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q61735007 conf/igarss/2009 db/conf/igarss/igarss2009.html#RousseauMLBT09 Imen Gherboudj Ramata Magagi Aaron Berg Brenda Toth Use of Radarsat-2 Images to Develop a Scaling Method of Soil Moisture over an Agricultural Area. III:510-513 2009 IGARSS (3) https://doi.org/10.1109/IGARSS.2009.5417804 https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q61735010 conf/igarss/2009 db/conf/igarss/igarss2009.html#GherboudjMBT09

Ziad Aly Ferdinand J. Bonn Ramata Magagi Analysis of the Backscattering Coefficient of Salt-Affected Soils Using Modeling and RADARSAT-1 SAR Data. 332-341 2007 45 IEEE Trans. Geosci. Remote. Sens. 2 https://doi.org/10.1109/TGRS.2006.887163 db/journals/tgrs/tgrs45.html#AlyBM07

Naira Chaouch Robert Leconte Ramata Magagi Marouane Temimi Surface soil moisture status over the Mackenzie River Basin using a temperature/vegetation index. 1846-1848 2007 IGARSS https://doi.org/10.1109/IGARSS.2007.4423182 conf/igarss/2007 db/conf/igarss/igarss2007.html#ChaouchLMT07

Ramata Magagi Monique Bernier Marie-Claude Bouchard Use of ground observations to simulate the seasonal changes in the backscattering coefficient of the subarctic forest. 281-297 2002 40 IEEE Trans. Geosci. Remote. Sens. 2 https://doi.org/10.1109/36.992786 db/journals/tgrs/tgrs40.html#MagagiBB02

Ramata Magagi Monique Bernier Chhun-Huor Ung Quantitative analysis of RADARSAT SAR data over a sparse forest canopy. 1301-1313 2002 40 IEEE Trans. Geosci. Remote. Sens. 6 https://doi.org/10.1109/TGRS.2002.800235 db/journals/tgrs/tgrs40.html#MagagiBU02

Ramata D. Magagi Yann H. Kerr Jean-Charles Meunier Results of combining L- and C-band passive microwave airborne data over the Sahelian area. 1997-2008 2000 38 IEEE Trans. Geosci. Remote. Sens. 4 https://doi.org/10.1109/36.851781 db/journals/tgrs/tgrs38.html#MagagiKM00

Ali Ben Abbes Justin R. Adams Zohreh Alijani Ziad Aly Jaison Thomas Ambadan Yasaman Amini Vincent Beauregard Stephane Belair Jon Belanger Aaron A. BergAaron Berg Monique Bernier Rajat Bindlish Fabien Blarel Ferdinand J. Bonn Marie-Claude Bouchard Laura L. Bourgeau-Chavez Paul Bullock Mariko Burgin Naira Chaouch Julian Chaubell Andreas Colliander Enrique Constantino-RecillasDaniel Enrique Constantino-Recillas Michael H. Cosh Jay Creen Jinsong Deng Najib Djamai Roy Scott DunbarScott Dunbar Dara Entekhabi Bhanu Prakash Mookkuthala Erkaramana James S. FamigliettiJay Famiglietti Joshua B. Fisher Frédéric Frappart Jose Mauricio Galeana-Pizaña Imen Gherboudj Kalifa GoitaKalifa Goïta Azza Gorrab Hardy B. Granberg Pierre Gravel Irena Hajnsek Warren Helgason Juan Carlos Hernández-Sánchez Saeid Homayouni Mehdi Hosseini Thomas J. Jackson Thomas Jagdhuber Safa Jammali José Carlos Jiménez-EscalonaJose Carlos Jimenez-Escalona Jesus Daniel Juarez-Vazquez Victoria R. KellyVicky Kelly Yann KerrYann H. Kerr Seung-Bum Kim Alexandra Georges Konings Simon Kraatz Mehmet Kurum Tarendra Lakhankar Robert Leconte Heather C. MacRae Kyle McDonald Heather McNairn Olivier Merlin Amine Merzouki Jean-Charles Meunier Koreen Millard Sidharth Misra Iliana Mladenova Mahta Moghaddam Alejandro Monsivais-Huertero Arnab Muhuri Eni G. Njoku Mehmet Ogut Emmanuel Ojo Norman T. O'Neill Peggy O'Neill Jarrett Powers Jean-Samuel Proulx-Bourque Nathan Riis Louis-Philippe Rousseau Tracy L. Rowlandson Alexandre Roy Camille Roy Hesam Salmabadi Jiali Shang Paul Siqueira Nicholas Steiner Marouane Temimi Erica Tetlock Cheng Tong Aura Citlalli Torres-Gomez Brenda Toth Ally M. Toure Mohamed Y. A. Toure Mélanie Trudel Chhun-Huor Ung Anne E. Walker Hongquan Wang Ke Wang 0016 Kayla Wicks Grant Wiseman Xiaoyong Xu Mengying Yang Simon YuehSimon H. Yueh Enrique Zempoaltécatl-Ramirez Luyao Zhu Jawad Ziyad