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  • 2020 - Fellow of the American Society of Agronomy (ASA)

Overview

Michael H. Cosh is affiliated with the Agricultural Research Service in the United States. Their research primarily focuses on environmental science and earth and planetary sciences, with particular emphasis on environmental engineering and atmospheric science within these fields.

The scientist's main research topics include soil moisture and remote sensing, precipitation measurement and analysis, cryospheric studies and observations, climate change and permafrost, soil and unsaturated flow, synthetic aperture radar (SAR) applications and techniques, and soil geostatistics and mapping.

Frequent co-authors collaborating with Michael H. Cosh are:

  • Andreas Colliander
  • David D. Bosch
  • Aaron Berg
  • Patrick J. Starks
  • Chandra Holifield Collins

Publication venues where Michael H. Cosh has contributed extensively include:

  • IEEE Journal of Selected Topics in Applied Earth Observations and Remote Sensing
  • Remote Sensing of Environment
  • IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing
  • Vadose Zone Journal
  • Remote Sensing

Notable recent papers authored or co-authored by Michael H. Cosh include:

  • "A roadmap for high-resolution satellite soil moisture applications - confronting product characteristics with user requirements," 2020, Remote Sensing of Environment
  • "Validation practices for satellite soil moisture retrievals: What are (the) errors?," 2020, Remote Sensing of Environment
  • "Validation of Soil Moisture Data Products From the NASA SMAP Mission," 2021, IEEE Journal of Selected Topics in Applied Earth Observations and Remote Sensing
  • "Assessment of 24 soil moisture datasets using a new in situ network in the Shandian River Basin of China," 2022, Remote Sensing of Environment
  • "Sentinel-1 soil moisture at 1 km resolution: a validation study," 2021, Remote Sensing of Environment

Michael H. Cosh received the honor of Fellow of the American Society of Agronomy (ASA) in 2020.

Best Publications

  • Vegetation water content mapping using Landsat data derived normalized difference water index for corn and soybeans

    Thomas J. Jackson;Daoyi Chen;Michael Cosh;Fuqin Li

  • Upscaling sparse ground‐based soil moisture observations for the validation of coarse‐resolution satellite soil moisture products

    Wade T. Crow;Aaron A. Berg;Michael H. Cosh;Alexander Loew

  • Validation of SMAP surface soil moisture products with core validation sites

    A. Colliander;T.J. Jackson;R. Bindlish;S. Chan

  • Assessment of the SMAP Passive Soil Moisture Product

    Steven K. Chan;Rajat Bindlish;Peggy E. O'Neill;Eni Njoku

  • Validation of Advanced Microwave Scanning Radiometer Soil Moisture Products

    T J Jackson;M H Cosh;R Bindlish;P J Starks

  • State of the Art in Large‐Scale Soil Moisture Monitoring

    Tyson E. Ochsner;Michael Harold Cosh;Richard H. Cuenca;Wouter Dorigo

  • The USDA Natural Resources Conservation Service Soil Climate Analysis Network (SCAN)

    Garry L. Schaefer;Michael H. Cosh;Thomas J. Jackson

  • Validation of Soil Moisture and Ocean Salinity (SMOS) Soil Moisture Over Watershed Networks in the U.S.

    T. J. Jackson;R. Bindlish;M. H. Cosh;Tianjie Zhao

  • Development and assessment of the SMAP enhanced passive soil moisture product

    S. K. Chan;R. Bindlish;P. O'Neill;T. Jackson

  • Soil Moisture Remote Sensing: State-of-the-Science

    Binayak P. Mohanty;Michael H. Cosh;Venkat Lakshmi;Carsten Montzka

  • Satellite surface soil moisture from SMAP, SMOS, AMSR2 and ESA CCI: A comprehensive assessment using global ground-based observations

    Hongliang Ma;Jiangyuan Zeng;Nengcheng Chen;Xiang Zhang

  • A roadmap for high-resolution satellite soil moisture applications ─ confronting product characteristics with user requirements

    Jian Peng;Jian Peng;Jian Peng;Clement Albergel;Anna Balenzano;Luca Brocca

  • Watershed scale temporal and spatial stability of soil moisture and its role in validating satellite estimates

    Michael H. Cosh;Thomas J. Jackson;Rajat Bindlish;John H. Prueger

  • Assessment of the SMAP Level-4 surface and root-zone soil moisture product using in situ measurements

    Rolf H. Reichle;Gabrielle J. M. De Lannoy;Qing Liu;Joseph V. Ardizzone

  • Validation practices for satellite soil moisture retrievals: what are (the) errors?

    A. Gruber;G. de Lannoy;C. Albergel;A. Al-Yaari

  • The Soil Moisture Active Passive Validation Experiment 2012 (SMAPVEX12): Prelaunch Calibration and Validation of the SMAP Soil Moisture Algorithms

    Heather McNairn;Thomas J. Jackson;Grant Wiseman;Stephane Belair

  • The SMAP and Copernicus Sentinel 1A/B microwave active-passive high resolution surface soil moisture product

    Narendra N. Das;Dara Entekhabi;R. Scott Dunbar;Mario J. Chaubell

  • Deriving land surface temperature from Landsat 5 and 7 during SMEX02/SMACEX

    Fuqin Li;Thomas J. Jackson;William P. Kustas;Thomas J. Schmugge

  • Temporal persistence and stability of surface soil moisture in a semi-arid watershed

    Michael H. Cosh;Thomas J. Jackson;Susan Moran;Rajat Bindlish

  • Temporal stability of surface soil moisture in the Little Washita River watershed and its applications in satellite soil moisture product validation

    Michael H. Cosh;Thomas J. Jackson;Patrick Starks;Gary Heathman

  • Version 4 of the SMAP Level-4 Soil Moisture algorithm and data product

    Rolf H. Reichle;Qing Liu;Randal D. Koster;Wade T. Crow

Frequent Co-Authors

Thomas J. Jackson
Thomas J. Jackson Agricultural Research Service
Rajat Bindlish
Rajat Bindlish Goddard Space Flight Center
Andreas Colliander
Andreas Colliander California Institute of Technology
Peggy E. O'Neill
Peggy E. O'Neill Goddard Space Flight Center
Aaron A. Berg
Aaron A. Berg University of Guelph
Todd G. Caldwell
Todd G. Caldwell United States Geological Survey
Jeffrey P. Walker
Jeffrey P. Walker Monash University
David D. Bosch
David D. Bosch Agricultural Research Service
John H. Prueger
John H. Prueger Agricultural Research Service
Simon Yueh
Simon Yueh Jet Propulsion Lab

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