Soil moisture and properties estimation by assimilating soil temperatures using particle batch smoother: A new perspective for DTS

Jianzhi Dong1, Susan C Steele-Dunne2, Tyson E. Ochsner3 and Nick Van De Giesen2, (1)Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA, United States, (2)Delft University of Technology, Faculty of Civil Engineering and Geosciences, Delft, Netherlands, (3)Oklahoma State University, Plant and Soil Sciences, Stillwater, OK, United States