Emna Ayari

Emna Ayari earned her engineering degree in Rural Engineering, Water, and Forests in 2018 and her M.Sc. in Geomatics for Agriculture and the Environment in 2019, both from the National Agronomic Institute of Tunisia. In 2023, she completed a joint Ph.D from Paul Sabatier University in France and the National Agronomic Institute of Tunisia. Following her doctoral studies, she worked as a postdoctoral researcher at the Center for the Study of the Biosphere from Space (CESBIO) in France until June 2024, and subsequently at the Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences (SLU) through July 2026. She is currently a researcher at SLU.

Hydrology, Crop monitoring, Remote sensing and Earth observations, Radar, Machine learning, Geomatics 

Papers (2024-2026)

- Comparing 1-km Sentinel-1 surface soil moisture with coarser-resolution satellite data for agricultural drought monitoring in Mediterranean regions. Ayari, E., Zribi, M., Rodríguez-Fernández, N.J., Albergel, C., Ouaadi, N., Stradiotti, P. and Baghdadi, N., Agricultural Water Management 2026, 329,110341, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.agwat.2026.110341 
- Root zone soil moisture mapping at very high spatial resolution using radar-derived surface soil moisture product. Ouaadi, N., Chehbouni, A., Ayari, E., Ait Hssaine, B., El Farkh, J., Le Page, M., Er-Raki, S. and Boone, A., Agricultural Water Management 2025, 314,109507, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.agwat.2025.109507 
- NDVI estimation using Sentinel-1 data over wheat fields in a semiarid Mediterranean region. Ayari, E., Zribi, M., Kassouk, Z., Lili Chabaane, Z., Ouaadi, N., and Baghdadi N., GIScience & Remote Sensing 2024, 61(1), https://doi.org/10.1080/15481603.2024.2357878 
- Monitoring Coastal Evolution and Geomorphological Processes Using Time-Series Remote Sensing and Geospatial Analysis: Application Between Cape Serrat and Kef Abbed, Northern Tunisia. Kassouk, Z., Ayari, E., Defontaines, B., and Ouaja, M., Remote Sensing 2024, 61(20), 3895, https://doi.org/10.3390/rs16203895
- Polarimetric instrument Global Navigation Satellite System - Reflectometry airborne data. Dassas, K., Fanise, P., Le Page, M., Ayari, E., Baillion, P., Sige, M., Boone, A., and Zribi, M., Data in Brief 2024, 52,109850, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.dib.2023.109850 

Proceedings and Others (2024-2026)

- The potential of radar data for estimating forage quality in ley fields in Sweden, Ayari, E., Manabe, V., Peng, J., Mickelåker, J., Parsons, D., Oliveira, J., EGF 2026. Wageningen Academic, 2026. 660-663,(Proceeding + Poster)  
- VallSat: Satellitbaserade digitala verktyg för vallförvaltning, Ayari, E., Parsons, D., Peng, J., Mickelåker, J., Manabe, V., Oliveira, J., (Proceeding) Vallkonferens 2026
- CyberGrass 2 – nordiskt samarbete för precisionsodling av vall⁠. Oliveira, J., Ayari, E., Manabe, V., Bollhöner, B., Björs, M., Korhonen, P., Kaivosoja, J., Louhisuo, A., Näsi, R., Oliveira, R., Gylfadóttir, T., Hamedpour, A. and Parsons, D., (Proceeding + Poster) Vallkonferens 2026 
- Identification of agricultural drought periods using 1-km surface soil moisture product in Tunisia, Ayari, E., Zribi, M., Baghdadi, N. and Ouaadi, N., (Poster) EOFACIA 2025
- Comparison between high and coarse spatial resolution surface soil moisture products over two Mediterranean sites in Tunisia and France, Ayari, E., Albergel, C., Baghdadi, N., Rodríguez-Fernández, N. J., Stradiotti, P., Lili Chabaane, Z. and Zribi M. (Proceeding + Oral presentation) IEEE ATSIP'2024 Conference
- Evaluation of the potential of surface soil moisture to identify the drought periods in a Mediterranean region (Tunisia), Ayari, E., Albergel, C., Baghdadi, N., Rodriguez-Fernandez, N.-J and Zribi, M., (Proceeding + Oral presentation) M2GARSS 2024
- Contribution of C-band radar data to describe the vegetation dynamic in the surface soil moisture retrieval in semi-arid region, Ayari, E., Lili-Chabaane, Z., Kassouk, Z., Jarlan, L., Rodriguez-Fernandez, N.-J., Baghdadi, N., and Zribi, M., (Proceeding + Poster) M2GARSS 2024
- Root Zone Soil Moisture Mapping at Very High Spatial Resolution Using Sentinel-1 Data, Ouaadi, N., Ayari, E., Ait Hssaine, B., El Farkh, J., Le Page, M., and Chehbouni A., (Poster) AGU 2024

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