Disaggregation of SMOS Soil Moisture to 100 m Resolution Using MODIS Optical/Thermal and Sentinel-1 Radar Data: Evaluation over a Bare Soil Site in Morocco

Remote Sensing

Luis Olivera¹  Lionel Jarlan¹  Josep M. Villar²  Saïd Khabba³  Olivier Merlin³  Salah Er-Raki⁴  Abdelhakim Amazirh⁴  Omar Ali Eweys⁵  Maria José Escorihuela⁵ 

[1] CESBIO, Université de Toulouse, IRD, UPS, CNRS, CNES, 31400 Toulouse, France;Environment and Soil Science Department, University of Lleida, 25003 Lleida, Spain;LMME, Dèpartment de Physique, Facultè des Sciences Semlalia, Universitè Cadi Ayyad, 40000 Marrakech, Morocco;LP2M2E, Dèpartment de Physique Appliquèe, Facultè des Sciences et Techniques, Universitè Cadi Ayyad, 40000 Marrakech, Morocco;isardSAT, ParcTecnològic Barcelona Activa, Carrer de Marie Curie, 8, 08042 Barcelona, Spain;

关键词: soil moisture and ocean salinity satellite (SMOS);    DISPATCH;    radar;    Sentinel-1;    disaggregation;    soil moisture;   

DOI  :  10.3390/rs9111155

来源: DOAJ

【 摘 要 】

The 40 km resolution SMOS (Soil Moisture and Ocean Salinity) soil moisture, previously disaggregated at a 1 km resolution using the DISPATCH (DISaggregation based on Physical And Theoretical scale CHange) method based on MODIS optical/thermal data, is further disaggregated to 100 m resolution using Sentinel-1 backscattering coefficient (σ°). For this purpose, three distinct radar-based disaggregation methods are tested by linking the spatio-temporal variability of σ° and soil moisture data at the 1 km and 100 m resolution. The three methods are: (1) the weight method, which estimates soil moisture at 100 m resolution at a certain time as a function of σ° ratio (100 m to 1 km resolution) and the 1 km DISPATCH products of the same time; (2) the regression method which estimates soil moisture as a function of σ° where the regression parameters (e.g., intercept and slope) vary in space and time; and (3) the Cumulative Distribution Function (CDF) method, which estimates 100 m resolution soil moisture from the cumulative probability of 100 m resolution backscatter and the maximum to minimum 1 km resolution (DISPATCH) soil moisture difference. In each case, disaggregation results are evaluated against in situ measurements collected between 1 January 2016 and 11 October 2016 over a bare soil site in central Morocco. The determination coefficient (R2) between 1 km resolution DISPATCH and localized in situ soil moisture is 0.31. The regression and CDF methods have marginal effect on improving the DISPATCH accuracy at the station scale with a R2 between remotely sensed and in situ soil moisture of 0.29 and 0.34, respectively. By contrast, the weight method significantly improves the correlation between remotely sensed and in situ soil moisture with a R2 of 0.52. Likewise, the soil moisture estimates show low root mean square difference with in situ measurements (RMSD= 0.032 m3 m−3).

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