H44D:
Emerging Technologies in Hydrologic Remote Sensing: Drones, Proximal Sensing Using Cosmic Ray Neutron Probes, and More II

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Session ID#: 34745

Session Description:
In recent decades, hydrologic remote sensing data has mostly been acquired from low-earth orbit or geostationary satellites sponsored by large governmental organizations such as NASA or ESA. While tremendously beneficial, these data sources have the downside of being expensive to develop and generally limited in number. Further, spaceborne orbital considerations often impose a tradeoff between high temporal or high spatial resolution. In recent years, several emerging technologies have matured to the point of viability for hydrologic research providing high-resolution, high-fidelity data at dramatically lower cost. Technologies using remote platforms include unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs), Cubesats, as well as signals of opportunity such as crowd-sourced data or GNSS-R, and many more. Additionally, the cosmic-ray neutron probes provide a low-cost, proximal sensing platform at hectometer scale that can be fixed or roving. This session aims to bring together studies that demonstrate the development, validation or use of these emerging technologies for observations of the critical zone and other components of the hydrologic cycle.
Primary Convener:  Alexandra G Konings, Stanford University, Earth System Science, Stanford, CA, United States
Conveners:  Trenton E Franz, University of Nebraska Lincoln, School of Natural Resources, Lincoln, United States, Christine E. Hatch, University of Massachusetts Amherst, Geosciences, Amherst, MA, United States and Mie Andreasen, Department og Geography and Geology, University of Copenhagen, Copenhagen, Denmark
Chairs:  Mie Andreasen, University of Copenhagen, København K, Denmark and Trenton E Franz, University of Nebraska Lincoln, School of Natural Resources, Lincoln, United States
OSPA Liaison:  Mie Andreasen, University of Copenhagen, København K, Denmark
Index Terms:

1848 Monitoring networks [HYDROLOGY]
1855 Remote sensing [HYDROLOGY]
1894 Instruments and techniques: modeling [HYDROLOGY]
1895 Instruments and techniques: monitoring [HYDROLOGY]

Abstracts Submitted to this Session:

Technological advances in cosmogenic neutron detectors for measuring soil water content (Invited) (258128)
Marek G Zreda, University of Arizona, Hydrology and Atmospheric Sciences, Tucson, AZ, United States, Martin Schrön, Helmholtz Centre for Environmental Research - UFZ, Department Monitoring and Exploration Technologies, Leipzig, Germany and Markus Köhli, University Heidelberg, Physikalisches Institut, Heidelberg, Germany, University of Bonn, Physikalisches Institut, Bonn, Germany; Helmholtz Centre for Environmental Research - UFZ, Monitoring and Exploration Technologies, Leipzig, Germany
Towards Hydrological Applications of Stationary and Roving Cosmic-Ray Neutron Sensors in the Light of Spatial Sensitivity (Invited) (206073)
Martin Schrön1,2, Markus Köhli3, Rafael Rosolem4, Gabriele Baroni2, Heye R Bogena5, Johannes Brenner2, Matthias Zink6, Corinna Rebmann2, Sascha E Oswald7, Peter Dietrich2, Luis Samaniego8 and Steffen Zacharias1, (1)Helmholtz Centre for Environmental Research UFZ Leipzig, Department of Monitoring and Exploration Technologies, Leipzig, Germany, (2)Helmholtz Centre for Environmental Research UFZ Leipzig, Leipzig, Germany, (3)University Heidelberg, Physikalisches Institut, Heidelberg, Germany, University of Bonn, Physikalisches Institut, Bonn, Germany, (4)University of Bristol, Civil Engineering, Bristol, United Kingdom, (5)Agrosphere Institute (IBG-3) Forschungszentrum Jülich, Deutschland, Germany, (6)Helmholtz Centre for Environmental Research - UFZ, Leipzig, Germany, (7)University of Potsdam, Institute of Earth and Environmental Science, Potsdam, Germany, (8)Helmholtz Centre for Environmental Research GmbH – UFZ, Computational Hydrosystems, Leipzig, Germany
Validation of SMAP Root Zone Soil Moisture Estimates with Improved Cosmic-Ray Neutron Probe Observations (213757)
Markus Tuller1, Ebrahim Babaeian2, Morteza Sadeghi3, Trenton E Franz4 and Scott B Jones3, (1)University of Arizona, Department of Environmental Science, Tucson, AZ, United States, (2)University of Florida, Soil and Water Sciences Department, Gainesville, United States, (3)Utah State University, Logan, UT, United States, (4)University of Nebraska Lincoln, School of Natural Resources, Lincoln, United States
Large-area Soil Moisture Surveys Using a Cosmic-ray Rover: Approaches and Results from Australia (246903)
Aaron Anthony Hawdon1, David Lewis McJannet2, Luigi J Renzullo3, Brett Baker1 and Ross Searle4, (1)CSIRO Land and Water, Townsville, Australia, (2)CSIRO Land and Water, Brisbane, Australia, (3)CSIRO Land and Water, Canberra, Australia, (4)CSIRO Agriculture and Food, Brisbane, Australia
A Perspective on Immanent Developments and Broadening Applications of Cosmic-ray Neutron Sensing – a German Collaboration Initiative (284560)
Sascha E Oswald, University of Potsdam, Institute of Earth and Environmental Science, Potsdam, Germany
Calibration Function for Obtaining Wide-Area Snow Water Equivalent from a Cosmic Ray Soil Moisture Probe (282041)
Darin Desilets, Hydroinnova LLC, Albuquerque, NM, United States
Monitoring of snowpack dynamics in mountainous terrain by cosmic-ray neutron sensing compared to Terrestrial Laser Scanning observations (271960)
Paul Schattan1,2, Gabriele Baroni3,4, Martin Schrön5, Markus Köhli6,7, Sascha E Oswald4, Matthias Huttenlau1 and Stefan Achleitner8, (1)alpS Centre for Climate Change Adaptation, Innsbruck, Austria, (2)University of Innsbruck, Institute of Geography, Innsbruck, Austria, (3)Helmholtz Centre for Environmental Research UFZ Leipzig, Leipzig, Germany, (4)University of Potsdam, Institute of Earth and Environmental Science, Potsdam, Germany, (5)Helmholtz Centre for Environmental Research - UFZ, Department Monitoring and Exploration Technologies, Leipzig, Germany, (6)Helmholtz Centre for Environmental Research - UFZ, Monitoring and Exploration Technologies, Leipzig, Germany, (7)University Heidelberg, Physikalisches Institut, Heidelberg, Germany, University of Bonn, Physikalisches Institut, Bonn, Germany, (8)University of Innsbruck, Unit of Hydraulic Engineering, Innsbruck, Austria

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