The soil moisture active passive validation experiment 2012 (SMAPVEX12): Prelaunch calibration and validation of the SMAP soil moisture algorithms

IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing

Volumn 53, Issue 5, 2015, Pages 2784-2801

  McNairn, Heather ^a   Jackson, Thomas J ^b   Wiseman, Grant ^c   Bélair, Stéphane ^d   Berg, Aaron ^e   Bullock, Paul ^f   Colliander, Andreas ^g   Cosh, Michael H ^b   Kim, Seung Bum ^g   Magagi, Ramata ^h   Moghaddam, Mahta ⁱ   Njoku, Eni G ^g   Adams, Justin R ^e   Homayouni, Saeid ^j   Ojo, Emmanuel Rotimi ^f   Rowlandson, Tracy L ^e   Shang, Jiali ^a   Goïta, Kalifa ^h   Hosseini, Mehdi ^a,h  

^a AGRICULTURE AND AGRI FOOD CANADA   (Canada)

^b AGRICULTURAL RESEARCH SERVICE   (United States)

^c STANTEC CONSULTING LTD   (Canada)

^d ENVIRONMENT CANADA   (Canada)

^e UNIVERSITY OF GUELPH   (Canada)

^f UNIVERSITY OF MANITOBA   (Canada)

^g CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^h UNIVERSITÉ DE SHERBROOKE   (Canada)

ⁱ UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

^j UNIVERSITY OF OTTAWA   (Canada)

more..

Author keywords

Passive microwave; soil moisture; Soil Moisture Active Passive (SMAP); synthetic aperture radar

Indexed keywords

AIRCRAFT INSTRUMENTS; ALGORITHMS; CALIBRATION; MICROWAVE ANTENNAS; MOISTURE; NASA; RADAR; SOIL MOISTURE; SOIL TESTING; SOILS; SPACE-BASED RADAR; SYNTHETIC APERTURE RADAR;

ALGORITHM DEVELOPMENT; ANTENNA TEMPERATURE; CALIBRATION AND VALIDATIONS; FIELD DATA COLLECTION; MICROWAVE OBSERVATIONS; PASSIVE MICROWAVES; SOIL MOISTURE ACTIVE PASSIVE (SMAP); SOIL MOISTURE RETRIEVALS;

SOIL SURVEYS;

AIRCRAFT; ALGORITHM; BACKSCATTER; CALIBRATION; DATA ACQUISITION; DATA SET; MODEL VALIDATION; RADAR; SATELLITE DATA; SENSOR; SOIL MOISTURE;

CANADA; MANITOBA;

EID: 84921053659     PISSN: 01962892     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TGRS.2014.2364913     Document Type: Article

References (55)

1. H. McNairn, A. Merzouki, A. Pacheco, and J. Fitzmaurice, "Monitoring soil moisture to support risk reduction for the agriculture sector using RADARSAT-2," IEEE J. Sel. Topics Appl. Earth Observ. Remote Sens., vol. 5, no. 3, pp. 824-834, Jun. 2012.
2. W. T. Crow et al., "Upscaling sparse ground-based soil moisture observations for the validation of coarse-resolution satellite soil moisture products," Rev. Geophys., vol. 50, no. 2, pp. 1-20, Apr. 2012.
3. Y. Du, F. T. Ulaby, and M. C. Dobson, "Sensitivity to soil moisture by active and passive microwave sensors," IEEE Trans. Geosci. Remote Sens., vol. 38, no. 1, pp. 105-113, Jan. 2000.
4. T. J. Jackson et al., "Validation of advanced microwave scanning radiometer soil moisture products," IEEE Trans. Geosci. Remote Sens., vol. 48, no. 12, pp. 4256-4272, Dec. 2010.
5. R. Bindlish, T. J. Jackson, A. J. Gasiewski, M. Klein, and E. G. Njoku, "Soil moisture mapping and AMSR-E validation using the PSR in SMEX02," Remote Sens. Environ., vol. 103, no. 2, pp. 127-139, Jul. 2006.
6. C. S. Draper, J. P. Walker, P. J. Steinle, R. A. M. de Jeu, and T. R. H. Holmes, "An evaluation of AMSR-E derived soil moisture over Australia," Remote Sens. Environ., vol. 113, no. 4, pp. 703-710, Apr. 2009.
7. T. J. Jackson et al., "Soil moisture mapping at regional scales using microwave radiometry: The southern great plains hydrology experiment," IEEE Trans. Geosci. Remote Sens., vol. 37, no. 5, pp. 2136-2151, Sep. 1999.
8. C. Champagne, A. Berg, J. Belanger, H. McNairn, and R. De Jeu, "Evaluation of soil moisture derived from passive microwave remote sensing over agricultural sites in Canada using ground-based soil moisture monitoring networks," Int. J. Remote Sens., vol. 31, no. 14, pp. 3669-3690, Jul. 2010.
9. M. M. Hornáček et al., "Potential for high resolution systematic global surface soil moisture retrieval via change detection using Sentinel-1," IEEE J. Sel. Topics Appl. Earth Observ. Remote Sens., vol. 5, no. 4, pp. 1303-1311, Aug. 2012.
10. F. Mattia, G. Satalino, V. R. N. Pauwels, and A. Loew, "Soil moisture retrieval through a merging of multi-temporal L-Band SAR data and hydrologic modelling," Hydrol. Earth Syst. Sci., vol. 13, no. 3, pp. 343-356, Mar. 2009.
11. M. S. Moran, D. C. Hymer, J. Qi, and E. E. Sano, "Soil moisture evaluation using multi-temporal Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR) in semiarid rangeland," Agricult. Forest Meteorol., vol. 105, no. 1-3, pp. 69-80, Nov. 2000.
12. J. Shi, J. Wang, A. Y. Hsu, P. E. O'Neill, and E. T. Engman, "Estimation of bare surface soil moisture and surface roughness parameter using L-band SAR image data," IEEE Trans. Geosci. Remote Sens., vol. 35, no. 5, pp. 1254-1266, Sep. 1997.
13. S. Kim et al., "Models of L-band radar backscattering coefficients over global terrain for soil moisture retrieval," IEEE Trans. Geosci. Remote Sens., vol. 52, no. 2, pp. 1381-1396, Feb. 2014.
14. N. Pierdicca, L. Pulvirenti, C. Bignami, and F. Ticconi, "Monitoring soil moisture in an agricultural test site using SAR data: Design and test of a pre-operational procedure," IEEE J. Sel. Topics Appl. Earth Observ. Remote Sens., vol. 6, no. 3, pp. 1199-1210, Jun. 2013.
15. D. J. Leroux et al., "An approach to constructing a homogeneous time series of soil moisture using SMOS," IEEE Trans. Geosci. Remote Sens., vol. 52, no. 1, pp. 393-405, Jun. 2013.
16. R. Rahmoune, P. Ferrazzoli, Y. H. Kerr, and P. Richaume, "SMOS level 2 retrieval algorithm over forests: Description and generation of global maps," IEEE J. Sel. Topics Appl. Earth Observ. Remote Sens., vol. 6, no. 3, pp. 1430-1439, Jun. 2013.
17. I. Gherboudj et al., "Validation of SMOS data over agricultural and boreal forest areas in Canada," IEEE Trans. Geosci. Remote Sens., vol. 50, no. 5, pp. 1623-1635, May 2012.
18. Y. H. Kerr et al., "The SMOS mission: New tool for monitoring key elements of the global water cycle," Proc. IEEE, vol. 98, no. 5, pp. 666-687, May 2010.
19. R. Bindlish, T. J. Jackson, M. H. Cosh, T. Zhao, and P. O'Neill, "Global soil moisture from the AQUARIUS/SAC-D satellite: Description and initial assessment," IEEE Geosci. Remote Sens. Letters, to be published.
20. W. Pitz and D. Miller, "The TerraSAR-X satellite," IEEE Trans. Geosci. Remote Sens., vol. 48, no. 2, pp. 615, 622, Feb. 2010.
21. A. Coletta et al., "COSMO-SkyMed program: Utilization and description of an advanced space EO duel-use asset," presented at the Envisat Symp., Montreux, Switzerland, Apr. 23-27, 2007.
22. M. Shimada, "Advance Land-Observation Satellite (ALOS) and its follow-up satellite, ALOS-2," presented at the 4th Int. Workshop PolInSAR, Frascati, Italy, Jan. 26-30, 2009.
23. D. Entekhabi et al., "The Soil Moisture Active Passive (SMAP) mission," Proc. IEEE, vol. 98, no. 5, pp. 704-716, May 2010.
24. T. J. Jackson, "Measuring surface soil moisture using passive microwave remote sensing," Hydrol. Process., vol. 7, no. 2, pp. 139-152, 1993.
25. S. B. Kim et al., "Soil moisture retrieval using time-series radar observations over bare surfaces," IEEE Trans. Geosci. Remote Sens., vol. 50, no. 5, pp. 1853-1863, May 2012.
26. E. Njoku et al., "Observations of soil moisture using a passive and active low frequency microwave airborne sensor during SGP99 data," IEEE Trans. Geosci. Remote Sens., vol. 40, no. 12, pp. 2659-2673, Dec. 2002.
27. U. Narayan, V. Lakshmi, and E. G. Njoku, "Retrieval of soil moisture from passive and active L/S band sensor (PALS) observations during the Soil Moisture Experiment in 2002 (SMEX02)," Remote Sens. Environ., vol. 92, no. 4, pp. 483-496, Sep. 2004.
28. R. Bindlish et al., "Combined passive and active microwave observations of soil moisture during CLASIC," IEEE Geosci. Remote Sens. Lett., vol. 6, no. 4, pp. 644-648, Oct. 2009.
29. R. Magagi et al., "Canadian experiment for soil moisture in 2010 (CanEXSM10): Overview and preliminary results," IEEE Trans. Geosci. Remote Sens., vol. 51, no. 1, pp. 347-363, Jan. 2013.
30. R. Panciera et al., "The Soil Moisture Active Passive Experiments (SMAPEX): Towards soil moisture retrieval from the SMAP mission," IEEE Trans. Geosci. Remote Sens., vol. 52, no. 1, pp. 490-507, Jan. 2014.
31. T. L. Rowlandson et al., "Evaluation of several calibration procedures for a portable soil moisture sensor," J. Hydrol., vol. 498, pp. 335-344, Aug. 2013.
32. M. Cosh, T. Jackson, R. Bindlish, J. Famiglietti, and D. Ryu, "Calibration of an impedance probe for estimation of surface water content over large regions," J. Hydrol., vol. 311, no. 1-4, pp. 49-58, Sep. 2005.
33. M. S. Seyfried, K. Grant, E. Du, and K. Humes, "Dielectric loss and calibration of Hydra probe soil water sensor," Vadose Zone J., vol. 4, no. 4, pp. 1070-1079, Nov. 2005.
34. M. Callens, N. E. C. Verhoest, and M. W. J. Davidson, "Parameterization of tillage-induced single-scale soil roughness from 4-m profiles," IEEE Trans. Geosci. Remote Sens., vol. 44, no. 4, pp. 878-888, Apr. 2006.
35. M. Trudel, F. Charbonneau, F. Avendano, and R. Leconte, "Quick profiler (QuiP): A friendly tool to extract roughness statistical parameters using a needle profiler," Can. J. Remote Sens., vol. 36, no. 4, pp. 391-396, Dec. 2010.
36. H. Bleiholder et al., Growth Stages of Mono-and Dicotyledonous Plants-BBCH Monograph 2001. [Online]. Available: http://www.jki. bund.de/fileadmin/dam-uploads/-veroeff/bbch/BBCH-Skala-englisch. pdf
37. V. Demarez, S. Duthoit, F. Baret, M. Weiss, and G. Dedieu, "Estimation of leaf area and clumping indexes of crops with hemispherical photographs," Agricult. Forest Meteorol., vol. 148, no. 4, pp. 644-655, Apr. 2008.
38. W. J. Wilson et al., "Passive active L-and S-band (PALS) microwave sensor for ocean salinity and soil moisture measurements," IEEE Trans. Geosci. Remote Sens., vol. 39, no. 5, pp. 1039-1048, May 2001.
39. A. Colliander et al., "Long term analysis of PALS soil moisture campaign measurements for global soil moisture algorithm development," Remote Sens. Environ., vol. 121, pp. 309-322, Jun. 2012.
40. B. Heavey et al., "The UAVSAR instrument: Description and first results," presented at the IEEE RADAR Conf., 2008.
41. I. E. Mladenova, T. J. Jackson, R. Bindlish, and S. Hensley, "Incidence angle normalization of radar backscatter data," IEEE Trans. Geosci. Remote Sens., vol. 51, no. 3, pp. 1791-1804, Mar. 2013.
42. J. R. Adams, A. A. Berg, and H. McNairn, "Field level soil moisture variability at 6-and 3-cm sampling depths: Implications for microwave sensor validation," Vadose Zone J., vol. 12, no. 3, Aug. 2013.
43. F. Anctil et al., "Geostatistics of near-surface moisture in bare cultivated organic soils," J. Hydrol., vol. 260, no. 1-4, pp. 30-37, Mar. 2002.
44. J. S. Famiglietti et al., "Ground-based investigation of soil moisture variability within remote sensing footprints during the Southern Great Plains 1997 (SGP97) hydrology experiment," Water Res. Res., vol. 35, no. 6, pp. 1839-1851, Jun. 1999.
45. J. S. Famiglietti, D. Ryu, A. A. Berg, M. Rodell, and T. J. Jackson, "Field observations of soil moisture variability across scales," Water Res. Res., vol. 44, no. 1, pp. W01423-1-W01423-16, Jan. 2008.
46. A. J. Teuling and P. A. Troch, "Improved understanding of soil moisture variability dynamics," Geophys. Res. Lett., vol. 32, no. 5, pp. L05404-1-L05404-4, Mar. 2005.
47. F. Pan and C. D. Peters-Lidard, "On the relationship between mean and variance of soil moisture fields," J. Amer. Water Res. Assoc., vol. 44, no. 1, pp. 235-242, Feb. 2008.
48. A. K. Fung, Z. Li, and K. S. Chen, "Backscattering from a randomly rough dielectric surface," IEEE Trans. Geosci. Remote Sens., vol. 30, no. 2, pp. 356-369, Mar. 1992.
49. Y. Oh, K. Sarabandi, and F. T. Ulaby, "An empirical model and an inversion technique for radar scattering from bare soil surfaces," IEEE Trans. Geosci. Remote Sens., vol. 30, no. 2, pp. 370-381, Mar. 1992.
50. P. C. Dubois, J. Van Zyl, and T. Engman, "Measuring soil moisture with imaging radars," IEEE Trans. Geosci. Remote Sens., vol. 33, no. 6, pp. 915-926, Nov. 1995.
51. A. Tabatabaeenejad, M. Burgin, and M. Moghaddam, "Potential of Lband radar for retrieval of canopy and subcanopy parameters of boreal forests," IEEE Trans. Geosci. Remote Sens., vol. 50, no. 6, pp. 2150-2160, Jun. 2012.
52. U. Narayan, V. Lakshmi, and T. J. Jackson, "High-resolution change estimation of soil moisture using L-band radiometer and radar observations made during the SMEX02 experiments," IEEE Trans. Geosci. Remote Sens., vol. 44, no. 6, pp. 1545-1554, Jun. 2006.
53. Y. Kim and J. J. van Zyl, "A time-series approach to estimate soil moisture using polarimetric radar data," IEEE Trans. Geosci. Remote Sens., vol. 47, no. 8, pp. 2519-2527, Aug. 2009.
54. V. Naeimi, K. Scipal, Z. Bartalis, S. Hasenauer, and W. Wagner, "An improved soil moisture retrieval algorithm for ERS and METOP scatterometer observations," IEEE Trans. Geosci. Remote Sens., vol. 47, no. 7, pp. 1999-2013, Jul. 2009.
55. A. Colliander et al., "Comparison of Airborne Passive and Active L-band System (PALS) brightness temperature measurements to SMOS observations during the SMAP Validation Experiment 2012 (SMAPVEX12)," IEEE Geosci. Remote Sens. Lett., vol. 12, no. 4, pp. 801-805, Apr. 2015.