Emna Ayari

Emna Ayari received her engineering Degree in rural engineering, water, and forests in 2018, and her M.S. degree in geomatics for agriculture and environment in 2019, from the National Agronomic Institute of Tunisia. She received her PhD. degree jointly from Paul Sabatier University in France and the National Agronomic Institute of Tunisia in 2023. She held a postdoctoral position at the Centre for the Study of the Biosphere from Space in France until June 2024. She is currently a postdoctoral researcher at the Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences. 

Hydrology, Crop monitoring, Remote sensing, Radar, Machine learning

• Reliability of 1-km surface soil moisture products for detecting agricultural drought events in Mediterranean regions, Ayari, E. , Baghdadi, N., Rodríguez-Fernández, N.J., Albergel, C. , Stradiotti, P., Ouaadi, N. and Zribi, M., Under review, 2026.
• 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., ElFarkh, J., Le Page, M., Er-Raki, S. and Boone, A., Agricultural Water Management, 314, 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).
• 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., Deffontaines, B., and Ouaja, M., Remote Sensing 2024, 61(20), 3895.
• 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

• 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., (Proceeding + Poster) EGF 2026
• VallSat: Satellitbaserade digitala verktyg för vallförvaltning, Ayari, E., Parsons, D., Peng, J., Mickelåker, J., Manabe, V., Oliveira, J., (Proceeding) 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