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Repositioning satellite soil moisture for agricultural drought monitoring: Misconceptions, bottlenecks, and future directions

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    Key Laboratory of Physical Electronics and Devices, Ministry of Education, Faculty of Electronic and Information Engineering, Xi’an Jiaotong University, Xi’an, Shaanxi 710049, China

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    Institute of Applied Remote Sensing and Information Technology, Zhejiang University, Hangzhou 310058, China

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  • Corresponding author: foreverspl@xjtu.edu.cn 
  • Received Date:  November 25, 2025
    Accepted Date:  January 12, 2026
    Published Online:  January 14, 2026
The Innovation Geoscience  4(1),  https://doi.org/10.59717/j.xinn-geo.2026.100194  |  Cite this article
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    Song P. and Huang J. (2026). Repositioning satellite soil moisture for agricultural drought monitoring: Misconceptions, bottlenecks, and future directions. The Innovation Geoscience 4:100194. https://doi.org/10.59717/j.xinn-geo.2026.100194
    Song P. and Huang J. (2026). Repositioning satellite soil moisture for agricultural drought monitoring: Misconceptions, bottlenecks, and future directions. The Innovation Geoscience 4:100194. https://doi.org/10.59717/j.xinn-geo.2026.100194

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