Soil moisture retrieval by means of real and simulated microwave data to test L-band active-passive and L-C-X-bands passive approaches

Mariella Angiulli; Claudia Notarnicola; Francesco Posa

doi:10.1117/12.569016

22 October 2004 Soil moisture retrieval by means of real and simulated microwave data to test L-band active-passive and L-C-X-bands passive approaches

Mariella Angiulli, Claudia Notarnicola, Francesco Posa

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Proceedings Volume 5574, Remote Sensing for Environmental Monitoring, GIS Applications, and Geology IV; (2004) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.569016
Event: Remote Sensing, 2004, Maspalomas, Canary Islands, Spain

Abstract

A study has been carried out to test which one of two different approaches: use of L-band active and passive data or use of L-C-X-bands passive data, is more effective to retrieve soil moisture of bare soils. Simulated and measured data were used. Simulated data were generated implementing IEM model for active and L-C passive data, and GO model for X band passive data. Measured data derive from the Soil Moisture Experiment "SMEX-02". As a preliminary investigation, retrieval was solved by the application of artificial feed forward backpropagation neural networks. Three different input configurations were considered: 1a) L-band: emissivity H and V polarizations-backscattering coefficient HH polarization ; 1b) L-band: emissivity H and V polarizations-backscattering coefficient VV polarization ; 2) L-band--C-band--X-band emissivity H polarization. For all three input configurations the requested outputs were root mean square of heights s, correlation length l and dielectric constant er. To test the methodology, the best performing nets were chosen to simulate first a retrieval with an artificial dataset with noise added. All chosen configurations permit an excellent retrieval of the real part of the dielectric constant on every soil type (smooth, medium and rough), while roughness parameters, especially autocorrelation length, are not well retrieved. Active-passive approach proved to be more efficient, as a consequence only active-passive configurations were used with real data. The algorithm confirmed to be efficient when neural networks have been trained with "noisy data". However, there is always an underestimation, probably due to vegetation. Further investigations need to be carried out in order to understand the cause of this underestimation.

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Mariella Angiulli, Claudia Notarnicola, and Francesco Posa "Soil moisture retrieval by means of real and simulated microwave data to test L-band active-passive and L-C-X-bands passive approaches", Proc. SPIE 5574, Remote Sensing for Environmental Monitoring, GIS Applications, and Geology IV, (22 October 2004); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.569016

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