Scientific publications

The following peer-reviewed scientific publications resulted from work carried out as part of the SoMMet project and are available open access.

[12] Sadra Emamalizadeh, Tim Howson, Riccardo Mazzoleni, Philip Vincent, Jonathan G. Evans and Gabriele Baroni: Toward a structured workflow to harmonize soil water content products: A comparative study across different methods, Vadose Zone Journal 25, e70127; https://doi.org/10.1002/vzj2.70127. Published in July 2026.

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[11] Peter M. Grosse, Elodie Marret, Lena Scheiffele, Katya Dimitrova Petrova, Till Francke, Daniel Altdorff, Maik Heistermann, Merlin Schiel, Carsten Neumann, Daniel Scheffler, Mehdi Saberioon, Matthias Kunz, Jonas Marach, Marcel Reginatto, Miroslav Zboril, Anna Balenzano, Daniel Rasche, Christine Stumpp, Benjamin Trost and Sascha E. Oswald: The Potsdam Soil Moisture Observatory: high-coverage reference observations at kilometer scale, Earth System Science Data 18, 1703–1727; https://doi.org/10.5194/essd-18-1703-2026. Published in March 2026.

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[10] Aysenur Cataler Karakus and Erman Karakuş: A novel flavone-based fluorescent probe for hydrazine detection in aqueous, soil and cell environments, Journal of Hazardous Materials Advances 21 101083; https://doi.org/10.1016/j.hazadv.2026.101083. Published in February 2026.

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[9] Markus Köhli: Soil moisture measurements by Cosmic-Ray neutron sensing: A critical review, Geoderma 465 117626; https://doi.org/10.1016/j.geoderma.2025.117626. Published in December 2025.

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[8] Zdeněk Vykydal, Jaroslav Šolc, Jan Rusňák, Pavol Blahušiak, Peter Vlk, Markus Köhli, María de los Ángeles Millán-Callado and Miroslav Zbořil: Monte Carlo simulation and experimental validation of the Finapp Model 3 cosmic-ray neutron sensor, Measurement Science and Technology 37 015901; https://doi.org/10.1088/1361-6501/ae2649. Published in December 2025.

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[7] Ahmet Harun Atag, Ömer Faruk Kadı, Zuhal Akbulut, Mehtap Ertürk and Humbet Nasibli: A Primary-Level Evolved Water Vapor System for Simultaneous Measurement of Soil Water and Moisture Content, IEEE Transactions on Instrumentation and Measurement 74 1017716; https://doi.org/10.1109/TIM.2025.3637943. Published in November 2025.

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[6] Gang Li, Annette Röttger, Miroslav Zboril and Olav Werhahn: Metrology for climate action, Measurement: Sensors, 2025, 101850; https://doi.org/10.1016/j.measen.2025.101850. Published in May 2025.

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[5] Emil Andreasen Klahn, Peter Friis Østergaard, Arezoo Taghizadeh-Toosi, Jan Nielsen and Henrik Kjeldsen: Establishing SI-traceable on-site calibration of point scale soil moisture sensors, Measurement: Sensors, 2025, 101523; https://doi.org/10.1016/j.measen.2024.101523. Published in May 2025.

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[4] Humbat Nasibov: Evaluation of Focus Measures for Hyperspectral Imaging Microscopy Using Principal Component Analysis, Journal of Imaging 2024, 10(10), 240; https://doi.org/10.3390/jimaging10100240. Published in September 2024.

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[3] Sadra Emamalizadeh, Alessandro Pirola, Cinzia Alessandrini, Anna Balenzano and Gabriele Baroni: Comparison of Soil Water Content from SCATSAR-SWI and Cosmic Ray Neutron Sensing at Four Agricultural Sites in Northern Italy: Insights from Spatial Variability and Representativeness, Remote Sensing 2024, 16(18), 3384; https://doi.org/10.3390/rs16183384. Published in September 2024.

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[2] Kamil Szewczak and Mateusz Łukowski: Medium-Scale Soil Moisture Retrievals Using an ELBARA L-Band Radiometer Using Time-Dependent Parameters for Wetland-Meadow-Cropland Site, Remote Sensing 2024, 16(12), 2200; https://doi.org/10.3390/rs16122200. Published in June 2024.

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[1] Stefano Gianessi, Matteo Polo, Luca Stevanato, Marcello Lunardon, Till Francke, Sascha E. Oswald, Hami Said Ahmed, Arsenio Toloza, Georg Weltin, Gerd Dercon, Emil Fulajtar, Lee Heng and Gabriele Baroni: Testing a novel sensor design to jointly measure cosmic-ray neutrons, muons and gamma rays for non-invasive soil moisture estimation, Geoscientific Instrumentation, Methods and Data Systems, 13, 9-25, 2024; https://doi.org/10.5194/gi-13-9-2024. Published in January 2024.

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