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10 Citations
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BAG: A Linear-Nonlinear Hybrid Time Series Prediction Model for Soil Moisture

  • Guoying Wang,
  • Lili Zhuang,
  • Lufeng Mo,
  • Xiaomei Yi,
  • Peng Wu and
  • Xiaoping Wu

Soil moisture time series data are usually nonlinear in nature and are influenced by multiple environmental factors. The traditional autoregressive integrated moving average (ARIMA) method has high prediction accuracy but is only suitable for linear...

  • Article
  • Open Access
21 Citations
3,203 Views
16 Pages

14 June 2023

Accurate prediction of soil moisture content in tea plantations plays a crucial role in optimizing irrigation practices and improving crop productivity. Traditional methods for SMC prediction are difficult to implement due to high costs and labor req...

  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
1,985 Views
20 Pages

28 March 2024

Deep soil moisture data have wide applications in fields such as engineering construction and agricultural production. Therefore, achieving the real-time monitoring of deep soil moisture is of significant importance. Current soil monitoring methods f...

  • Article
  • Open Access
16 Citations
3,102 Views
17 Pages

As one of the physical quantities concerned in agricultural production, soil moisture can effectively guide field irrigation and evaluate the distribution of water resources for crop growth in various regions. However, the spatial variability of soil...

  • Article
  • Open Access
30 Citations
5,804 Views
16 Pages

Interpreting Conv-LSTM for Spatio-Temporal Soil Moisture Prediction in China

  • Feini Huang,
  • Yongkun Zhang,
  • Ye Zhang,
  • Wei Shangguan,
  • Qingliang Li,
  • Lu Li and
  • Shijie Jiang

Soil moisture (SM) is a key variable in Earth system science that affects various hydrological and agricultural processes. Convolutional long short-term memory (Conv-LSTM) networks are widely used deep learning models for spatio-temporal SM predictio...

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  • Open Access
301 Views
24 Pages

Crop root development, and in turn crop growth, is strongly influenced by soil strength and the mechanical impedance of compacted layers, which restrict root elongation and exploration. Because the depth and thickness of compacted layers vary across...

  • Article
  • Open Access
17 Citations
3,751 Views
18 Pages

Soil moisture plays an important role in ecology, hydrology, agriculture and climate change. This study proposes a soil moisture prediction model, based on the depth and water balance equation, which integrates the water balance equation with the sea...

  • Article
  • Open Access
16 Citations
2,440 Views
17 Pages

8 September 2024

The accurate prediction of soil moisture content helps to evaluate the quality of farmland. Taking the black soil in the Nanguan District of Changchun City as the research object, this paper proposes a stacking ensemble learning model integrating hyb...

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  • Open Access
1 Citations
2,326 Views
26 Pages

Soil Moisture Prediction Using the VIC Model Coupled with LSTMseq2seq

  • Xiuping Zhang,
  • Xiufeng He,
  • Rencai Lin,
  • Xiaohua Xu,
  • Yanping Shi and
  • Zhenning Hu

15 July 2025

Soil moisture (SM) is a key variable in agricultural ecosystems and is crucial for drought prevention and control management. However, SM is influenced by underlying surface and meteorological conditions, and it changes rapidly in time and space. To...

  • Article
  • Open Access
7 Citations
1,898 Views
27 Pages

Integrating Convolutional Attention and Encoder–Decoder Long Short-Term Memory for Enhanced Soil Moisture Prediction

  • Jingfeng Han,
  • Jian Hong,
  • Xiao Chen,
  • Jing Wang,
  • Jinlong Zhu,
  • Xiaoning Li,
  • Yuguang Yan and
  • Qingliang Li

3 December 2024

Soil moisture is recognized as a crucial variable in land–atmosphere interactions. This study introduces the Convolutional Attention Encoder–Decoder Long Short-Term Memory (CAEDLSTM) model to address the uncertainties and limitations inhe...

  • Article
  • Open Access
71 Citations
11,562 Views
18 Pages

8 May 2020

Soil Conservation Service Curve Number (SCS-CN) is a popular surface runoff prediction method because it is simple in principle, convenient in application, and easy to accept. However, the method still has several limitations, such as lack of a land...

  • Article
  • Open Access
2,270 Views
25 Pages

16 August 2025

Accurate soil moisture estimation is critical for precision agriculture and water resource management, yet traditional sampling methods are time-consuming, destructive, and provide limited spatial coverage. Ground Penetrating Radar (GPR) offers a pro...

  • Article
  • Open Access
10 Citations
3,660 Views
21 Pages

Impact of Soil Moisture Data Assimilation on Analysis and Medium-Range Forecasts in an Operational Global Data Assimilation and Prediction System

  • Sanghee Jun,
  • Jeong-Hyun Park,
  • Hyun-Joo Choi,
  • Yong-Hee Lee,
  • Yoon-Jin Lim,
  • Kyung-On Boo and
  • Hyun-Suk Kang

24 August 2021

Accurate initial soil moisture conditions are essential for numerical weather prediction models, because they play a major role in land–atmosphere interactions. This study constructed a soil moisture data assimilation system and evaluated its impacts...

  • Article
  • Open Access
30 Citations
4,783 Views
22 Pages

Improved Soil Moisture and Electrical Conductivity Prediction of Citrus Orchards Based on IoT Using Deep Bidirectional LSTM

  • Peng Gao,
  • Jiaxing Xie,
  • Mingxin Yang,
  • Ping Zhou,
  • Wenbin Chen,
  • Gaotian Liang,
  • Yufeng Chen,
  • Xiongzhe Han and
  • Weixing Wang

In order to create an irrigation scheduling plan for use in large-area citrus orchards, an environmental information collection system of citrus orchards was established based on the Internet of Things (IoT). With the environmental information data,...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1,621 Views
22 Pages

14 April 2025

Surface soil moisture (SSM) has proven to be an important variable for the yield prediction of main crops like maize and wheat, but its value for spring barley, the third most cultivated crop in Europe, has not yet been evaluated. This study assesses...

  • Article
  • Open Access
888 Views
15 Pages

Federated learning (FL) provides a privacy-preserving approach for training machine learning models across distributed datasets; however, its deployment in environmental monitoring remains underexplored. This paper uses the WHIN dataset, comprising 1...

  • Article
  • Open Access
963 Views
15 Pages

A Django-Based Modeling Platform for Predicting Soil Moisture in Agricultural Fields

  • Pengyu Gan,
  • Zhe Gu,
  • Hongyan Zou,
  • Tingting Zhu and
  • Zhenye Li

11 June 2025

To solve the problems of strong professionalism and cumbersome operation required for crop soil moisture prediction, a soil moisture prediction platform has been developed for real-time irrigation decision-making based on the Django framework. This p...

  • Article
  • Open Access
13 Citations
5,497 Views
18 Pages

The authors examine the impact of assimilating satellite-based soil moisture estimates on real-time streamflow predictions made by the distributed hydrologic model HLM. They use SMAP (Soil Moisture Active Passive) and SMOS (Soil Moisture Ocean Salini...

  • Article
  • Open Access
4 Citations
3,247 Views
18 Pages

Hybrid LSTM Method for Multistep Soil Moisture Prediction Using Historical Soil Moisture and Weather Data

  • Deus F. Kandamali,
  • Erin Porter,
  • Wesley M. Porter,
  • Alex McLemore,
  • Denis O. Kiobia,
  • Ali P. Tavandashti and
  • Glen C. Rains

Soil moisture prediction is a key parameter for effective irrigation scheduling and water use efficiency. However, accurate long-term prediction remains challenging, as most existing models excel in short- to medium-term prediction but struggle to ca...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
954 Views
31 Pages

Predictive Model of Electrical Resistivity in Sandy, Silty and Clayey Soils Using Gravimetric Moisture Content

  • Cesar Augusto Navarro Rubio,
  • Mario Trejo Perea,
  • Hugo Martínez Ángeles,
  • José Gabriel Ríos Moreno,
  • Roberto Valentín Carrillo-Serrano and
  • Saúl Obregón-Biosca

6 November 2025

Soil electrical resistivity is a fundamental parameter in various geotechnical, agricultural, environmental, and engineering applications, as it directly depends on the soil’s moisture content and physical properties. Understanding this relatio...

  • Article
  • Open Access
79 Citations
11,292 Views
17 Pages

24 December 2017

Soil organic matter (SOM) is an important parameter of soil fertility, and visible and near-infrared (VIS–NIR) spectroscopy combined with multivariate modeling techniques have provided new possibilities to estimate SOM. However, the spectral signal i...

  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
3,784 Views
15 Pages

5 August 2020

Owing to a scarcity of in situ streamflow data in ungauged or poorly gauged basins, remote sensing data is an ideal alternative. It offers a valuable perspective into the dynamic patterns that can be difficult to examine in detail with point measurem...

  • Article
  • Open Access
14 Citations
3,995 Views
28 Pages

18 February 2021

Using modelling approaches to predict stream flow from ungauged basins requires new model calibration strategies and evaluation methods that are different from the existing ones. Soil moisture information plays an important role in hydrological appli...

  • Article
  • Open Access
4 Citations
3,059 Views
19 Pages

15 August 2024

Vegetation indices are widely used to assess vegetation dynamics. The Normalized Vegetation Index (NDVI) is the most widely used metric in agriculture, frequently as a proxy for different physiological and agronomical aspects, such as crop yield or b...

  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
1,619 Views
18 Pages

Soil Compaction Prediction in Precision Agriculture Using Cultivator Shank Vibration and Soil Moisture Data

  • Shaghayegh Janbazialamdari,
  • Daniel Flippo,
  • Evan Ridder and
  • Edwin Brokesh

7 September 2025

Precision agriculture applies data-driven strategies to manage spatial and temporal variability within fields, aiming to increase productivity while minimizing pressure on natural resources. As interest in smart tillage systems expands, this study ex...

  • Article
  • Open Access
7 Citations
4,551 Views
24 Pages

9 March 2025

Accurate soil moisture prediction is fundamental to precision agriculture, facilitating optimal irrigation scheduling, efficient water resource allocation, and enhanced crop productivity. This study employs a Long Short-Term Memory (LSTM) deep learni...

  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
3,434 Views
27 Pages

The infiltration of rainwater into soil slopes leads to an increase of porewater pressure and destruction of matric suction, which causes a reduction in soil shear strength and slope instability. Hence, surface moisture and infiltration properties mu...

  • Feature Paper
  • Article
  • Open Access
32 Citations
5,012 Views
17 Pages

Modeling for the Prediction of Soil Moisture in Litchi Orchard with Deep Long Short-Term Memory

  • Peng Gao,
  • Hongbin Qiu,
  • Yubin Lan,
  • Weixing Wang,
  • Wadi Chen,
  • Xiongzhe Han and
  • Jianqiang Lu

Soil moisture is an important factor determining yield. With the increasing demand for agricultural irrigation water resources, evaluating soil moisture in advance to create a reasonable irrigation schedule would help improve water resource utilizati...

  • Article
  • Open Access
49 Citations
7,631 Views
17 Pages

7 December 2021

Achieving the rational, optimal, and sustainable use of resources (water and soil) is vital to drink and feed 9.725 billion by 2050. Agriculture is the first source of food production, the biggest consumer of freshwater, and the natural filter of air...

  • Article
  • Open Access
42 Citations
4,123 Views
19 Pages

A Stacked Machine Learning Algorithm for Multi-Step Ahead Prediction of Soil Moisture

  • Francesco Granata,
  • Fabio Di Nunno,
  • Mohammad Najafzadeh and
  • Ibrahim Demir

21 December 2022

A trustworthy assessment of soil moisture content plays a significant role in irrigation planning and in controlling various natural disasters such as floods, landslides, and droughts. Various machine learning models (MLMs) have been used to increase...

  • Article
  • Open Access
35 Citations
5,620 Views
20 Pages

Soil Moisture, Organic Carbon, and Nitrogen Content Prediction with Hyperspectral Data Using Regression Models

  • Dristi Datta,
  • Manoranjan Paul,
  • Manzur Murshed,
  • Shyh Wei Teng and
  • Leigh Schmidtke

20 October 2022

Soil moisture, soil organic carbon, and nitrogen content prediction are considered significant fields of study as they are directly related to plant health and food production. Direct estimation of these soil properties with traditional methods, for...

  • Article
  • Open Access
4 Citations
1,464 Views
13 Pages

23 May 2025

Monitoring soil moisture content (SMC) remains challenging due to its spatial and temporal variability. Accurate SMC prediction is essential for optimizing irrigation and enhancing water use efficiency. In this research, a Gradient Boosting Regressor...

  • Article
  • Open Access
83 Citations
10,818 Views
24 Pages

Soil Moisture Prediction from Remote Sensing Images Coupled with Climate, Soil Texture and Topography via Deep Learning

  • Mehmet Furkan Celik,
  • Mustafa Serkan Isik,
  • Onur Yuzugullu,
  • Noura Fajraoui and
  • Esra Erten

5 November 2022

Soil moisture (SM) is an important biophysical parameter by which to evaluate water resource potential, especially for agricultural activities under the pressure of global warming. The recent advancements in different types of satellite imagery coupl...

  • Article
  • Open Access
53 Citations
10,576 Views
18 Pages

Prediction of Soil Moisture Content from Sentinel-2 Images Using Convolutional Neural Network (CNN)

  • Ehab H. Hegazi,
  • Abdellateif A. Samak,
  • Lingbo Yang,
  • Ran Huang and
  • Jingfeng Huang

24 February 2023

Agriculture is closely associated with food and water. Agriculture is the first source of food but the biggest consumer of freshwater. The population is constantly increasing. Smart agriculture is one of the means of achieving food and water security...

  • Article
  • Open Access
68 Citations
6,346 Views
19 Pages

21 April 2020

It is well-documented in the visible and near-infrared reflectance spectroscopy (VNIRS) studies that soil moisture content (SMC) negatively affects the prediction accuracy of soil attributes. This work was undertaken to remove the negative effect of...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
1,882 Views
24 Pages

2 March 2025

This study provides a comprehensive assessment of the HYDRUS-1D model for predicting root-zone soil moisture (RZSM) and evapotranspiration (ET). It evaluates different soil hydrodynamic parameter (SHP) schemes—soil type-based, soil texture-base...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1,383 Views
24 Pages

Satellite-Based Machine Learning for Soil Moisture Prediction and Land Conservation Practice Assessment in West African Drylands

  • Meron Lakew Tefera,
  • Ethiopia B. Zeleke,
  • Mario Pirastru,
  • Assefa M. Melesse,
  • Giovanna Seddaiu and
  • Hassan Awada

5 November 2025

In semiarid, fragmented landscapes where data scarcity challenges effective land management, accurate soil moisture monitoring is critical. This study presents a high-resolution analysis that integrates remote sensing, in situ data, and machine learn...

  • Article
  • Open Access
883 Views
17 Pages

25 October 2025

From 2020 to 2021, crop production increased by 54% globally, and the popularity of commercial agriculture to increase profitability is gradually increasing. However, global warming and climate issues make it difficult to maintain stable crop product...

  • Article
  • Open Access
5 Citations
3,182 Views
30 Pages

7 January 2025

The North China Plain is a crucial agricultural region in China, but irregular precipitation patterns have led to significant water shortages. To address this, analyzing the high-resolution dynamics of root-zone soil moisture transport is essential f...

  • Article
  • Open Access
49 Citations
4,764 Views
16 Pages

Development of a Soil Moisture Prediction Model Based on Recurrent Neural Network Long Short-Term Memory (RNN-LSTM) in Soybean Cultivation

  • Soo-Hwan Park,
  • Bo-Young Lee,
  • Min-Jee Kim,
  • Wangyu Sang,
  • Myung Chul Seo,
  • Jae-Kyeong Baek,
  • Jae E Yang and
  • Changyeun Mo

10 February 2023

Due to climate change, soil moisture may increase, and outflows could become more frequent, which will have a considerable impact on crop growth. Crops are affected by soil moisture; thus, soil moisture prediction is necessary for irrigating at an ap...

  • Article
  • Open Access
6 Citations
2,735 Views
12 Pages

23 April 2021

Ecosites are required for stand-level forest management and can be determined within a two-dimensional edatopic grid with soil nutrient regimes (SNRs) and soil moisture regimes (SMRs) as coordinates. A new modeling method is introduced in this study...

  • Article
  • Open Access
31 Citations
8,660 Views
24 Pages

30 November 2016

In the present study, soil moisture assimilation is conducted over the Indian subcontinent, using the Noah Land Surface Model (LSM) and the Soil Moisture Operational Products System (SMOPS) observations by utilizing the Ensemble Kalman Filter. The st...

  • Article
  • Open Access
18 Citations
8,280 Views
24 Pages

10 January 2019

In this study, a residual soil moisture prediction model was developed using the stepwise cluster analysis (SCA) and model prediction approach in the Upper Blue Nile basin. The SCA has the advantage of capturing the nonlinear relationships between re...

  • Article
  • Open Access
17 Citations
5,953 Views
19 Pages

Drought Prediction System for Central Europe and Its Validation

  • Petr Štěpánek,
  • Miroslav Trnka,
  • Filip Chuchma,
  • Pavel Zahradníček,
  • Petr Skalák,
  • Aleš Farda,
  • Rostislav Fiala,
  • Petr Hlavinka,
  • Jan Balek and
  • Martin Možný
  • + 1 author

In recent years, two drought monitoring systems have been developed in the Czech Republic based on the SoilClim and AVISO soil moisture models. The former is run by Mendel University and Global Change Research Institute (CAS), while the latter, by th...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1,889 Views
24 Pages

20 August 2025

This study proposes a geographically weighted (GW) quantile machine learning (GWQML) framework for soil moisture (SM) prediction, integrating spatial kernel functions with quantile-based prediction and uncertainty quantification. The framework incorp...

  • Article
  • Open Access
5 Citations
4,077 Views
20 Pages

1 April 2021

Vegetation phenology is a key ecosystem characteristic that is sensitive to environmental conditions. Here, we examined the utility of soil moisture (SM) and vegetation optical depth (VOD) observations from NASA’s L-band Soil Moisture Active Passive...

  • Feature Paper
  • Article
  • Open Access
4 Citations
3,039 Views
24 Pages

Forecasts of Opportunity for Northern California Soil Moisture

  • Cécile Penland,
  • Megan D. Fowler,
  • Darren L. Jackson and
  • Robert Cifelli

6 July 2021

Soil moisture anomalies underpin a number of critical hydrological phenomena with socioeconomic consequences, yet systematic studies of soil moisture predictability are limited. Here, we use a data-adaptive technique, Linear Inverse Modeling, which h...

  • Article
  • Open Access
29 Citations
8,046 Views
19 Pages

Prediction of Oil Palm Yield Using Machine Learning in the Perspective of Fluctuating Weather and Soil Moisture Conditions: Evaluation of a Generic Workflow

  • Nuzhat Khan,
  • Mohamad Anuar Kamaruddin,
  • Usman Ullah Sheikh,
  • Mohd Hafiz Zawawi,
  • Yusri Yusup,
  • Muhammed Paend Bakht and
  • Norazian Mohamed Noor

27 June 2022

Current development in precision agriculture has underscored the role of machine learning in crop yield prediction. Machine learning algorithms are capable of learning linear and nonlinear patterns in complex agro-meteorological data. However, the ap...

  • Article
  • Open Access
254 Views
22 Pages

Accurate prediction of soil texture is essential for effective soil management, precision agriculture, and hydrological modeling. This study proposes a novel, data-driven approach for estimating soil texture without the need for laboratory-based anal...

  • Article
  • Open Access
4 Citations
3,628 Views
15 Pages

Soil-Gas Diffusivity-Based Characterization of Variably Saturated Agricultural Topsoils

  • A. M. S. N. Abeysinghe,
  • M. M. T. Lakshani,
  • U. D. H. N. Amarasinghe,
  • Yuan Li,
  • T. K. K. Chamindu Deepagoda,
  • Wei Fu,
  • Jun Fan,
  • Ting Yang,
  • Xiaoyi Ma and
  • Kathleen Smits
  • + 2 authors

16 September 2022

Soil-gas diffusivity and its variation with soil moisture plays a fundamental role in diffusion-controlled migration of climate-impact gases from different terrestrial agroecosystems including cultivated soils and managed pasture systems. The wide co...

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