Soil Moisture: The Need of Multiple Sources Facing Data Gaps

CAPPELLETTI LUCIA; ANNA SÖRENSSON; JOBBÁGY, ESTEBAN G.; R. RUSCICA; SALVIA, M.

Conferencia; VIRTUAL | Student and Early Career Scientists Conference 2021; 2021

This work shows that long SM data gaps can be due to several reasons. In addition, data gaps that are often ignored, contain useful information, such as signal values, about the state of the surveyed site. For example, they may help to identify extreme events such as floods. Our results also show the importance to work with multiple sources of information in cases where data gaps are not informative but depend on instrument failure.