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Evaluation of SMAP/Sentinel 1 high-resolution soil moisture data to detect irrigation over agricultural domain

Jalilvand, E ; Sharif University of Technology | 2021

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  1. Type of Document: Article
  2. DOI: 10.1109/JSTARS.2021.3119228
  3. Publisher: Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc , 2021
  4. Abstract:
  5. Irrigation is not well represented in land surface, hydrological, and climate models. One way to account for irrigation is by assimilating satellite soil moisture data that contains irrigation signal with land surface models. In this study, the irrigation detection ability of SMAP enhanced 9 km and SMAP-Sentinel 1 (SMAP-S1), 3 km and 1 km soil moisture products are evaluated using the first moment (mean) and the second moment (variability) of soil moisture data. The SMAP enhanced 9 km soil moisture product lacks irrigation signals in an irrigated plain south of Urmia Lake, whereas SMAP-S1 products record irrigation signal in soil moisture variability. Despite observing higher variability over irrigated areas, there are only small and inconsistent wet biases observed over irrigated pixels relative to nearby nonirrigated pixels during the irrigation season. This is partly attributable to the climatology vegetation water content used in the SMAP-S1 soil moisture retrieval algorithm that is not accounting for crop rotation and land management. Thus, in the second part of this study, we updated the retrieval algorithm to use dynamic vegetation water content. The update increased vegetation water content up to 1 kg/m2 which corresponds with a 0.05 cm3/cm3 increase in soil moisture during irrigation season. The update does not notably change soil moisture retrievals off season. This study shows that irrigation signals are present in both the first and second moment of soil moisture time series, and employing dynamic vegetation water content in the SMAP-S1 algorithm can enhance the irrigation signal over agricultural regions. © 2008-2012 IEEE
  6. Keywords:
  7. Climate models ; Heuristic algorithms ; Pixels ; Remote sensing ; Surface measurement ; Vegetation ; First moments ; Heuristics algorithm ; High resolution ; Moisture data ; Second moments ; Sentinel-1 ; Signal resolution ; SMAP-sentinel 1 ; Vegetation mapping ; Vegetation water content ; Crops ; Climatology ; Irrigation ; Sentinel ; Soil moisture ; Vegetation dynamics ; Water content ; Iran ; Lake Urmia
  8. Source: IEEE Journal of Selected Topics in Applied Earth Observations and Remote Sensing ; Volume 14 , 2021 , Pages 10733-10747 ; 19391404 (ISSN)
  9. URL: https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/9566730