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Arnaud Mialon is affiliated with the Centre national de la recherche scientifique (CNRS) in France. Their research primarily focuses on environmental science and earth and planetary sciences, with a strong emphasis on atmospheric science, environmental engineering, global and planetary change, ecology, and management, monitoring, policy, and law.

The scientist's work covers a range of topics related to soil moisture and remote sensing, climate change and permafrost, cryospheric studies and observations, precipitation measurement and analysis, remote sensing in agriculture, remote sensing and LiDAR applications, and landslides and related hazards.

Frequent publication venues for Mialon include:

  • Remote Sensing of Environment
  • HAL (Le Centre pour la Communication Scientifique Directe)
  • Earth system science data
  • IEEE Journal of Selected Topics in Applied Earth Observations and Remote Sensing
  • IGARSS 2022 - 2022 IEEE International Geoscience and Remote Sensing Symposium

Recent papers authored or co-authored by Arnaud Mialon are:

  • COSMOS-Europe: a European network of cosmic-ray neutron soil moisture sensors, 2022, Earth system science data
  • Evaluation of the Sensitivity of SMOS L-VOD to Forest Above-Ground Biomass at Global Scale, 2020, Remote Sensing
  • Temperature effects on L-band vegetation optical depth of a boreal forest, 2021, Remote Sensing of Environment
  • Influence of surface water variations on VOD and biomass estimates from passive microwave sensors, 2021, Remote Sensing of Environment
  • Monitoring post-fire recovery of various vegetation biomes using multi-wavelength satellite remote sensing, 2022, Biogeosciences

Frequent co-authors collaborating with Mialon include:

  • Yann H. Kerr
  • Philippe Richaume
  • Nemesio Rodríguez-Fernández
  • Mike Schwank
  • Alexandre Bouvet

Best Publications

  • The SMOS Soil Moisture Retrieval Algorithm

    Y. H. Kerr;P. Waldteufel;P. Richaume;J. P. Wigneron

  • 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

    J.-P. Wigneron;T.J. Jackson;P. O'Neill;G. De Lannoy

  • Overview of SMOS performance in terms of global soil moisture monitoring after six years in operation

    Yann H. Kerr;A. Al-Yaari;N. Rodriguez-Fernandez;M. Parrens

  • Global-scale evaluation of two satellite-based passive microwave soil moisture datasets (SMOS and AMSR-E) with respect to Land Data Assimilation System estimates

    A. Al-Yaari;A. Al-Yaari;J.-P. Wigneron;A. Ducharne;Y. Kerr

  • The global SMOS Level 3 daily soil moisture and brightness temperature maps

    Ahmad Al Bitar;Arnaud Mialon;Yann H. Kerr;Yann H. Kerr;François Cabot;François Cabot

  • SMOS-IC: An Alternative SMOS Soil Moisture and Vegetation Optical Depth Product

    Roberto Fernandez-Moran;Amen Al-Yaari;Arnaud Mialon;Ali Mahmoodi

  • Satellite-observed pantropical carbon dynamics

    Lei Fan;Lei Fan;Jean-Pierre Wigneron;Philippe Ciais;Jérôme Chave

  • Satellite passive microwaves reveal recent climate-induced carbon losses in African drylands.

    Martin Brandt;Jean-Pierre Wigneron;Jérôme Chave;Torbern Tagesson

  • Satellite-observed Major Greening and Biomass Increase in South China Karst During Recent Decade

    Martin Brandt;Yuemin Yue;Jean Pierre Wigneron;Xiaowei Tong

  • Assessment and inter-comparison of recently developed/reprocessed microwave satellite soil moisture products using ISMN ground-based measurements

    A. Al-Yaari;J.-P. Wigneron;W. Dorigo;A. Colliander

  • Global-Scale Comparison of Passive (SMOS) and Active (ASCAT) Satellite Based Microwave Soil Moisture Retrievals with Soil Moisture Simulations (MERRA-Land)

    A. Al-Yaari;A. Al-Yaari;A. Al-Yaari;J.-P. Wigneron;A. Ducharne;Y.H. Kerr

  • Coupling of ecosystem-scale plant water storage and leaf phenology observed by satellite

    Feng Tian;Feng Tian;Jean-Pierre Wigneron;Philippe Ciais;Jérôme Chave

  • An evaluation of SMOS L-band vegetation optical depth (L-VOD) data sets: high sensitivity of L-VOD to above-ground biomass in Africa

    Nemesio J. Rodríguez-Fernández;Arnaud Mialon;Stephane Mermoz;Alexandre Bouvet

  • Evaluating an Improved Parameterization of the Soil Emission in L-MEB

    J Wigneron;A Chanzy;Y H Kerr;H Lawrence

  • Evaluating soil moisture retrievals from ESA's SMOS and NASA's SMAP brightness temperature datasets.

    A. Al-Yaari;J.-P. Wigneron;Y. Kerr;N. Rodriguez-Fernandez

  • Evaluating the Semiempirical $H$ – $Q$ Model Used to Calculate the L-Band Emissivity of a Rough Bare Soil

    H. Lawrence;J-P Wigneron;F. Demontoux;A. Mialon

  • Evaluation of Spaceborne L-Band Radiometer Measurements for Terrestrial Freeze/Thaw Retrievals in Canada

    Alexandre Roy;Alain Royer;Chris Derksen;Ludovic Brucker

  • Comparison of SMOS and AMSR-E vegetation optical depth to four MODIS-based vegetation indices

    J.P. Grant;J.-P. Wigneron;R.A.M. De Jeu;H. Lawrence

  • Global-scale surface roughness effects at L-band as estimated from SMOS observations.

    Marie Parrens;Jean-Pierre Wigneron;Philippe Richaume;Arnaud Mialon

  • Impact of the 2015/2016 El Nino on the terrestrial carbon cycle constrained by bottom-up and top-down approaches

    Ana Bastos;Ana Bastos;Pierre Friedlingstein;Stephen Sitch;Chi Chen

  • SMOS-IC: An alternative SMOS soil moisture and vegetation optical depth product

    Roberto Fernandez-Moran;Roberto Fernandez-Moran;Amen Al-Yaari;Arnaud Mialon;Ali Mahmoodi

Frequent Co-Authors

Yann Kerr
Yann Kerr Federal University of Toulouse Midi-Pyrénées
Jean-Pierre Wigneron
Jean-Pierre Wigneron University of Rennes
Ahmad Al Bitar
Ahmad Al Bitar Federal University of Toulouse Midi-Pyrénées
Philippe Richaume
Philippe Richaume Centre national de la recherche scientifique, CNRS
Amen Al-Yaari
Amen Al-Yaari Sorbonne University
Mike Schwank
Mike Schwank Swiss Federal Institute for Forest, Snow and Landscape Research
Ghislain Picard
Ghislain Picard Grenoble Alpes University
Paolo Ferrazzoli
Paolo Ferrazzoli University of Rome Tor Vergata
Olivier Merlin
Olivier Merlin Paul Sabatier University
Martin Brandt
Martin Brandt University of Copenhagen

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