Recent publications

A complete list of publications is available via Google Scholar .

2023

Tina Nikaein, Paco Lopez-Dekker, Susan C. Steele-Dunne , Vineet Kumar and Manuel Huber,
"Modeling SAR Observables by Combining a Crop-Growth Model With Machine Learning," in IEEE Journal of Selected Topics in Applied Earth Observations and Remote Sensing, vol. 16, pp. 7763-7776, 2023, doi: 10.1109/JSTARS.2023.3301124.
den Besten, Nadja, Susan Steele Dunne , Ashfak Mahmud, Daniel Jackson, Benjamin Aouizerats, Richard de Jeu, Rogier Burger, Rasmus Houborg, Mark McGlinchey, and Pieter van der Zaag.
"Understanding Sentinel-1 backscatter response to sugarcane yield variability and waterlogging." Remote Sensing of Environment 290 (2023): 113555.

2022

Mueller, Marlin M., Clémence Dubois, Thomas Jagdhuber, Florian M. Hellwig, Carsten Pathe, Christiane Schmullius, and Susan Steele-Dunne .
"Sentinel-1 backscatter time series for characterization of evapotranspiration dynamics over temperate coniferous forests." Remote Sensing 14, no. 24 (2022): 6384.
Shan, Xu, Susan Steele-Dunne , Manuel Huber, Sebastian Hahn, Wolfgang Wagner, Bertrand Bonan, Clement Albergel, Jean-Christophe Calvet, Ou Ku, and Sonja Georgievska.
"Towards constraining soil and vegetation dynamics in land surface models: Modeling ASCAT backscatter incidence-angle dependence with a Deep Neural Network." Remote Sensing of Environment 279 (2022): 113116.
Harry Vereecken, Wulf Amelung, Sara L. Bauke, Heye Bogena, Nicolas Brüggemann, Carsten Montzka, Jan Vanderborght, Michel Bechtold, Günter Blöschl, Andrea Carminati, Mathieu Javaux, Alexandra G. Konings, Jürgen Kusche, Insa Neuweiler, Dani Or, Susan Steele-Dunne , Anne Verhoef, Michael Young & Yonggen Zhang.
"Soil hydrology in the Earth system."
Nature Reviews Earth & Environment 3, no. 9 (2022): 573-587.
Vermunt, Paul C., Susan C. Steele-Dunne , Saeed Khabbazan, Vineet Kumar, and Jasmeet Judge.
"Towards understanding the influence of vertical water distribution on radar backscatter from vegetation using a multi-layer water cloud model."
Remote Sensing 14, no. 16 (2022): 3867.
Vermunt, P. C., Steele-Dunne, S. C. , Khabbazan, S., Judge, J., & van de Giesen, N. C. (2022).
"Extrapolating continuous vegetation water content to understand sub-daily backscatter variations"
. Hydrology and Earth System Sciences, 26(5), 1223-1241.
Vreugdenhil, Mariette, Isabella Greimeister-Pfeil, Wolfgang Preimesberger, Stefania Camici, Wouter Dorigo, Markus Enenkel, Robin van der Schalie, Susan Steele-Dunne , and Wolfgang Wagner.
"Microwave remote sensing for agricultural drought monitoring: Recent developments and challenges."
, Frontiers in Water 4 (2022): 1045451.
Sujay Kumar, Jana Kolassa, Rolf Reichle, Wade Crow, Gabrielle de Lannoy, Patricia de Rosnay, Natasha MacBean, Manuela Girotto, Andy Fox, Tristan Quaife, Clara Draper, Barton Forman, Gianpaolo Balsamao, Susan Steele‐Dunne , Clement Albergel, Bertrand Bonan, Jean‐Christophe Calvet, Jianzhi Dong, Hannah Liddy, Benjamin Ruston.
"An agenda for land data assimilation priorities: Realizing the promise of terrestrial water, energy, and vegetation observations from space"
, Journal of Advances in Modeling Earth Systems, e2022MS003259, 2022.
Gabriëlle J. M. De Lannoy, Michel Bechtold, Clément Albergel, Luca Brocca, Jean-Christophe Calvet, Alberto Carrassi, Wade T. Crow, Patricia de Rosnay, Michael Durand, Barton Forman, Gernot Geppert, Manuela Girotto, Harrie-Jan Hendricks Franssen, Tobias Jonas, Sujay Kumar, Hans Lievens, Yang Lu, Christian Massari, Valentijn R. N. Pauwels, Rolf H. Reichle, Susan Steele-Dunne .
"Perspective on satellite-based land data assimilation to estimate water cycle components in an era of advanced data availability and model sophistication"
, Frontiers in Water, https://doi.org/10.3389/frwa.2022.981745, 2022.
Petchiappan, A.,Steele-Dunne, S. C. , Vreugdenhil, M., Hahn, S., Wagner, W., and Oliveira, R.:
"The influence of vegetation water dynamics on the ASCAT backscatter–incidence angle relationship in the Amazon"
, Hydrol. Earth Syst. Sci., 26, 2997–3019, https://doi.org/10.5194/hess-26-2997-2022, 2022.
Greimeister-Pfeil, Isabella, Wolfgang Wagner, Raphael Quast, Sebastian Hahn, Susan Steele-Dunne , and Mariette Vreugdenhil.
"Analysis of short-term soil moisture effects on the ASCAT backscatter-incidence angle dependence."
Science of Remote Sensing 5 (2022): 100053.
Shorachi, Maurice, Vineet Kumar, and Susan C. Steele-Dunne .
"Sentinel-1 SAR Backscatter Response to Agricultural Drought in The Netherlands."
Remote Sensing 14, no. 10 (2022): 2435.
Khabbazan, S., S. C. Steele-Dunne, P. Vermunt, J. Judge, M. Vreugdenhil, and G. Gao.
"The influence of surface canopy water on the relationship between L-band backscatter and biophysical variables in agricultural monitoring."
Remote Sensing of Environment 268 (2022): 112789.

2021

den Besten, Nadja, Susan Steele-Dunne, Benjamin Aouizerats, Ariel Zajdband, Richard De Jeu, and Pieter Van Der Zaag.
"Observing Sucrose Accumulation With Sentinel-1 Backscatter."
Frontiers in Remote Sensing 2 (2021): 1-9.
Durand,Michael, Ana Barros,Jeff Dozier,Robert Adler,Sarah Cooley,Dara Entekhabi,Barton A. Forman,Alexandra G. Konings,William P. Kustas,Jessica D. Lundquist,Tamlin M. Pavelsky,Matthew Rodell and Susan Steele-Dunne.
"Achieving breakthroughs in global hydrologic science by unlocking the power of multisensor, multidisciplinary Earth observations."
AGU Advances 2, no. 4 (2021): e2021AV000455.
Konings, Alexandra G., Sassan S. Saatchi, Christian Frankenberg, Michael Keller, Victor Leshyk, William RL Anderegg, Vincent Humphrey , Ashley M. Matheny, Anna Trugman, Lawren Sack, Elizabeth Agee, Mallory L. Barnes, Oliver Binks, Kerry Cawse-Nicholson, Bradley O. Christoffersen, Dara Entekhabi, Pierre Gentine,Nataniel M. Holtzman, Gabriel G. Katul, Yanlan Liu, Marcos Longo, Jordi Martinez-Vilalta, Nate McDowell, Patrick Meir, Maurizio Mencuccini, Assaad Mrad, Kimberly A. Novick, Rafael S. Oliveira, Paul Siqueira, Susan C. Steele-Dunne, David R. Thompson, Yujie Wang, Richard Wehr, Jeffrey D. Wood, Xiangtao Xu, Pieter A. Zuidema.
"Detecting forest response to droughts with global observations of vegetation water content."
Global change biology 27, no. 23 (2021): 6005-6024.
Judge, Jasmeet, Pang-Wei Liu, Alejandro Monsiváis-Huertero, Tara Bongiovanni, Subit Chakrabarti, Susan C. Steele-Dunne, Daniel Preston, Samantha Allen, Jaime Polo Bermejo, Patrick Rush, Roger DeRoo, Andreas Colliander and Michael Cosh.
"Impact of vegetation water content information on soil moisture retrievals in agricultural regions: An analysis based on the SMAPVEX16-MicroWEX dataset."
Remote Sensing of Environment 265 (2021): 112623.
Petchiappan, Ashwini, Susan C. Steele-Dunne, Mariette Vreugdenhil, Sebastian Hahn, Wolfgang Wagner, and Rafael Oliveira.
"The influence of vegetation water dynamics on the ASCAT backscatter-incidence angle relationship in the Amazon."
Hydrology and Earth System Sciences Discussions (2021): 1-29.
Vermunt, Paul C., Susan C. Steele-Dunne, Saeed Khabbazan, Jasmeet Judge, and Nick C. van de Giesen.
"Reconstructing Continuous Vegetation Water Content To Understand Sub-daily Backscatter Variations."
Hydrology and Earth System Sciences Discussions (2021): 1-26.
Kumar, Vineet, Manuel Huber, Maurice Shorachi, Björn Rommen, and Susan C. Steele-Dunne.
"Agricultural SandboxNL: A Crop Parcel Level Database Using Sentinel-1 SAR and Google Earth Engine."
In 2021 IEEE International Geoscience and Remote Sensing Symposium IGARSS, pp. 6284-6287. IEEE, 2021.
Khabbazan, S., P. C. Vermunt, S. C. Steele-Dunne, and J. Judge.
"The Importance of Overpass Time in Agricultural Applications of Radar."
In 2021 IEEE International Geoscience and Remote Sensing Symposium IGARSS, pp. 6084-6087. IEEE, 2021.
den Besten, Nadja, Susan Steele-Dunne , Richard de Jeu, and Pieter van der Zaag.
"Towards monitoring waterlogging with remote sensing for sustainable irrigated agriculture."
Remote Sensing 13, no. 15 (2021): 2929.
Steele-Dunne, Susan C. , Sebastian Hahn, Wolfgang Wagner, and Mariette Vreugdenhil.
"Towards including dynamic vegetation parameters in the EUMETSAT H SAF ASCAT soil moisture products."
Remote Sensing 13, no. 8 (2021): 1463.
Jamalinia, Elahe, Faraz S. Tehrani, Susan C. Steele-Dunne, and Philip J. Vardon.
"A Data-Driven Surrogate Approach for the Temporal Stability Forecasting of Vegetation Covered Dikes."
Water 13, no. 1 (2021): 107.

2020

Hahn, Sebastian, Wolfgang Wagner, Susan C. Steele-Dunne , Mariette Vreugdenhil, and Thomas Melzer.
"Improving ASCAT soil moisture retrievals with an enhanced spatially variable vegetation parameterization."
IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing 59, no. 10 (2020): 8241-8256.
Vermunt, Paul C., Saeed Khabbazan, Susan C. Steele-Dunne, Jasmeet Judge, Alejandro Monsivais-Huertero, Leila Guerriero, and Pang-Wei Liu.
"Response of subdaily L-Band backscatter to internal and surface canopy water dynamics."
IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing 59, no. 9 (2020): 7322-7337.
Vreugdenhil, Mariette, Claudio Navacchi, Bernhard Bauer-Marschallinger, Sebastian Hahn, Susan Steele-Dunne , Isabella Pfeil, Wouter Dorigo, and Wolfgang Wagner.
"Sentinel-1 cross ratio and vegetation optical depth: A comparison over Europe."
Remote Sensing 12, no. 20 (2020): 3404.
Jamalinia, Elahe, Phil Vardon, and Susan Steele-Dunne.
"Use of displacement as a proxy for dike safety."
Proceedings of the International Association of Hydrological Sciences 382 (2020): 481-485.
Bouaziz, Laurène JE, Susan C. Steele‐Dunne , Jaap Schellekens, Albrecht H. Weerts, Jasper Stam, Eric Sprokkereef, Hessel HC Winsemius, Hubert HG Savenije, and Markus Hrachowitz.
"Improved understanding of the link between catchment‐scale vegetation accessible storage and satellite‐derived Soil Water Index."
Water Resources Research (2020): e2019WR026365.
Lu, Yang, Susan C. Steele-Dunne , and Gabriëlle JM De Lannoy.
Improving soil moisture and surface turbulent heat flux estimates by assimilation of SMAP brightness temperatures or soil moisture retrievals and GOES land surface temperature retrievals."
Journal of Hydrometeorology (2020): JHM-D-19-0130.1.
Jamalinia, Elahe, Philip J. Vardon, and Susan C. Steele-Dunne .
"The impact of evaporation induced cracks and precipitation on temporal slope stability."
Computers and Geotechnics 122 (2020): 103506.
Tangdamrongsub, Natthachet, Shin-Chan Han, In-Young Yeo, Jianzhi Dong, Susan C. Steele-Dunne , Garry Willgoose, and Jeffrey P. Walker.
"Multivariate data assimilation of GRACE, SMOS, SMAP measurements for improved regional soil moisture and groundwater storage estimates."
Advances in Water Resources (2020): 103477.

2019

Steele-Dunne, Susan C. , Sebastian Hahn, Wolfgang Wagner, and Mariette Vreugdenhil (2019).
"Investigating vegetation water dynamics and drought using Metop ASCAT over the North American Grasslands."
Remote Sensing of Environment 224 (2019): 219-235.
Konings, Alexandra G., Krishna Rao, and Susan C. Steele‐Dunne (2019).
"Macro to micro: microwave remote sensing of plant water content for physiology and ecology."
New Phytologist, doi:10.1111/nph.15808.
Lu, Yang, Jianzhi Dong, and Susan C. Steele-Dunne (2019).
"Impact of Soil Moisture Data Resolution on Soil Moisture and Surface Heat Flux Estimates through Data Assimilation: A Case Study in the Southern Great Plains."
Journal of Hydrometeorology 20, no. 4 (2019): 715-730.
Khabbazan, Saeed, Paul Vermunt, Susan Steele-Dunne , Lexy Ratering Arntz, Caterina Marinetti, Dirk van der Valk, Lorenzo Iannini, Ramses Molijn, Kees Westerdijk, and Corné van der Sande (2019).
"Crop monitoring using Sentinel-1 data: A case study from The Netherlands."
Remote Sensing 11, no. 16: 1887.
Jamalinia, Elahe, Philip J. Vardon, and Susan C. Steele-Dunne (2019).
"The effect of soil–vegetation–atmosphere interaction on slope stability: A numerical study."
Environmental Geotechnics (2019): 1-12.
Kempenaar, Corné, Chris van Dijk, Geert Hermans, Susan Steele-Dunne , Corné van de Sande, Jeroen Verschoore, Tamme van der Wal et al.(2019).
"Op naar precisielandbouw 2.0: Eindrapport PPS PL2.0 2015-2019"
Topsectorproject AF-14275. No. 921. Stichting Wageningen Research, Wageningen University & Research, 2019.
Agliata, Rosa, Thom A. Bogaard, Roberto Greco, Aldo Minardo, Luigi Mollo, and Susan C. Steele-Dunne (2019).
"Non-invasive water content estimation in a tuff wall by DTS."
Construction and Building Materials 197: 821-829.
Li, Bailing, Matthew Rodell, Sujay Kumar, Hiroko Kato Beaudoing, Augusto Getirana, Benjamin F Zaitchik, Luis Gustavo de Goncalves, Camila Cossetin, Soumendra Bhanja, Abhijit Mukherjee, Siyuan Tian, Natthachet Tangdamrongsub, Di Long, Jamiat Nanteza, Jejung Lee, Frederick Policelli, Ibrahim B Goni, Djoret Daira, Mohammed Bila, Gabriëlle de Lannoy, David Mocko, Susan C Steele‐Dunne, Himanshu Save, Srinivas Bettadpur (2019).
"Global GRACE data assimilation for groundwater and drought monitoring: Advances and challenges."
Water Resources Research, doi:10.1029/2018WR024618.