ABSTRACT
Soil moisture is an important component of the terrestrial environment that significantly regulates water circulation and surface energy exchanges between land surface and the atmosphere (Jackson 1993; Vereecken et al. 2014). It is an important factor affecting the budget of the hydrological cycle, specifically by separating rainfall into runoff, surface infiltration, and evapotranspiration (Jawson and Niemann 2007). Many scientific applications require soil moisture data to represent the initial
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