dr.ir. R. van der Velde (Rogier)

My name is Rogier van der Velde and I am an associate professor at the Water Resources department of the Faculty of ITC (University of Twente).

I obtained my MSc degree (2004) in Hydrology from Wageningen University. In this period I started developing an expertise in SAR-based soil moisture remote sensing at the Hydrology and Remote Sensing Laboratory (HRSL) of the USDA-ARS in Beltsville, USA.

My PhD degree I received in 2010 from the University of Twente with a dissertation focused on soil moisture estimation from active microwave observations and the modelling of water and energy exchanges at the land-atmosphere interface. Soil moisture estimation at plot-scale, I applied to C- and L-band radar observations collected with a truck-mounted scatterometer deployed during a corn growth cycle. Envisat-ASAR has been used to map soil moisture at regional-scale across the Naqu river basin on the Tibetan Plateau. The modelling of water and energy exchanges at land surface I have performed in the context of the Noah land surface model applied to a site on Tibetan Plateau.

In my post-PhD years I have continued to build on earlier developed expertise. In addition, I have devoted considerable efforts to in-situ soil moisture measurements by leading the development of the Naqu and Ngari monitoring networks on the Tibetan Plateau. Since 2015 I am responsible for the management of our monitoring network in the Twente region, which was selected as core international validation site for NASA’s SMAP (Soil Moisture Active/Passive) mission.

Over the years, my research interest has grown towards the development of Earth Observation applications for Regional Water Management. Via NWO-AES funded Optimizing Water Availability with Sentinel-1 Satellites (OWAS1S) project I contributed to this topic by investigating the added value of Sentinel-1 and SMAP soil moisture estimates for region water authorities.

Earth & Environmental Sciences

# Land Surface
# Meadow
# Microwave
# Parameterization
# Plateau
# Soil
# Soil Moisture

Engineering & Materials Science

# Soil Moisture

Zhang, P., Zheng, D. , van der Velde, R., Wen, J., Ma, Y. , Zeng, Y., Wang, X., Wang, Z., Chen, J. , & Su, Z. (2022). A dataset of 10-year regional-scale soil moisture and soil temperature measurements at multiple depths on the Tibetan Plateau. Earth system science data, 14(12), 5513-5542. https://doi.org/10.5194/essd-14-5513-2022

Hofste, J. G. , van der Velde, R., Ferrazzoli, P. , & Su, Z. (2022). Microwave scattering (1-10 GHz) from a vertically heterogeneous grass canopy. IEEE transactions on geoscience and remote sensing, 60, [2008617]. https://doi.org/10.1109/TGRS.2022.3229749

Benninga, H. F. J. , van der Velde, R. , & Su, Z. (2022). Soil moisture content retrieval over meadows from Sentinel-1 and Sentinel-2 data using physically based scattering models. Remote sensing of environment, 280, [113191]. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.rse.2022.113191

Benninga, H. F. (2022). Estimation of field-scale soil moisture content and its uncertainties using Sentinel-1 satellite imagery. [PhD Thesis - Research UT, graduation UT, Faculty of Geo-Information Science and Earth Observation, University of Twente]. University of Twente, Faculty of Geo-Information Science and Earth Observation (ITC). https://doi.org/10.3990/1.9789036553384

Zhang, P., Zheng, D. , Van Der Velde, R., Wen, J. , Zeng, Y., Wang, X., Wang, Z., Chen, J. , & Su, Z. (2021). Status of the Tibetan Plateau observatory (Tibet-Obs) and a 10-year (2009-2019) surface soil moisture dataset. Earth system science data, 13(6), 3075-3102. https://doi.org/10.5194/essd-13-3075-2021

Colliander, A., Reichle, R., Crow, W., Cosh, M. H., Chen, F., Chan, S. K., Das, N. N., Bindlish, R., Chaubell, M. J., Kim, S., Liu, Q., Oneill, P. E., Dunbar, S., Dang, L. B., Kimball, J. S., Jackson, T. J., Aljassar, H. K., Asanuma, J., Bhattacharya, B. K., ... Yueh, S. H. (2021). Validation of soil moisture data products from the NASA SMAP mission. IEEE Journal of selected topics in applied earth observations and remote sensing, 15, 364-392. [9599364]. https://doi.org/10.1109/JSTARS.2021.3124743

Su, Z., Ma, Y. , Chen, X., Dong, X. , Du, J., Han, C., He, Y. , Hofste, J. G., Li, M. , Li, M., Lv, S., Ma, W., Polo, M. J., Peng, J., qian, H., Sobrino, J. , van der Velde, R., Wen, J. , Wang, B. , ... zeng, Y. (2021). Monitoring water and energy cycles at climate scale in the Third Pole Environment (CLIMATE-TPE). Remote sensing, 13(18), 1-24. [3661]. https://doi.org/10.3390/rs13183661

Bai, X., Zheng, D., Wen, J., Wang, X. , & Van der Velde, R. (2021). Using a discrete scattering model to constrain water cloud model for simulating ground-based scatterometer measurements and retrieving soil moisture. IEEE Journal of selected topics in applied earth observations and remote sensing, 14, 9424-9434. https://doi.org/10.1109/JSTARS.2021.3111606

Zheng, D., Li, X., Wen, J. , Hofste, J. G. , van der Velde, R., Wang, X., Wang, Z., Bai, X., Schwank, M. , & Su, Z. (2021). Active and passive microwave signatures of diurnal soil freeze-thaw transitions on the Tibetan Plateau. IEEE transactions on geoscience and remote sensing, [4301814]. https://doi.org/10.1109/TGRS.2021.3092411

Hofste, J. G. , Van Der Velde, R., Wen, J., Wang, X., Wang, Z., Zheng, D. , Van Der Tol, C. , & Su, Z. (2021). Year-long, broad-band, microwave backscatter observations of an alpine meadow over the Tibetan Plateau with a ground-based scatterometer. Earth system science data, 13(6), 2819-2856. https://doi.org/10.5194/essd-13-2819-2021

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