“…Many studies have confirmed the usefulness of the time stability approach. The approach has been widely used to identify the most stable sampling sites for representing the mean soil moisture conditions in a specific area (Cosh et al, 2006;Dorigo et al, 2011;Martínez-Fernández and Ceballos, 2003;Neves et al, 2017;Sur et al, 2013;Zhang and Shao, 2013;Zhou et al, 2007). Many studies have used TSA to validate and calibrate the remote sensing of soil moisture (Colliander et al, 2017;Cosh et al, 2004;Cosh et al, 2008;Crow et al, 2012;Jackson et al, 2012;Peng et al, 2017;Wagner et al, 2008).…”