Disaggregation of SMAP Soil Moisture at 20 m Resolution: Validation and Sub-Field Scale Analysis
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Data de publicació
2021-12-31ISSN
2072-4292
Resum
This paper introduces a modified version of the DisPATCh (Disaggregation based on Physical And Theoretical scale Change) algorithm to disaggregate an SMAP surface soil moisture (SSM) product at a 20 m spatial resolution, through the use of sharpened Sentinel-3 land surface temperature (LST) data. Using sharpened LST as a high resolution proxy of SSM is a novel approach that needs to be validated and can be employed in a variety of applications that currently lack in a product with a similar high spatio-temporal resolution. The proposed high resolution SSM product was validated against available in situ data for two different fields, and it was also compared with two coarser DisPATCh products produced, disaggregating SMAP through the use of an LST at 1 km from Sentinel-3 and MODIS. From the correlation between in situ data and disaggregated SSM products, a general improvement was found in terms of Pearson’s correlation coefficient (R) for the proposed high resolution product with respect to the two products at 1 km. For the first field analyzed, R was equal to 0.47 when considering the 20 m product, an improvement compared to the 0.28 and 0.39 for the 1 km products. The improvement was especially noticeable during the summer season, in which it was only possible to successfully capture field-specific irrigation practices at the 20 m resolution. For the second field, R was 0.31 for the 20 m product, also an improvement compared to the 0.21 and 0.23 for the 1 km product. Additionally, the new product was able to depict SSM spatial variability at a sub-field scale and a validation analysis is also proposed at this scale. The main advantage of the proposed product is its very high spatio-temporal resolution, which opens up new opportunities to apply remotely sensed SSM data in disciplines that require fine spatial scales, such as agriculture and water management.
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Article
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Versió publicada
Llengua
English
Matèries (CDU)
631 - Agricultura. Agronomia. Maquinària agrícola. Sòls. Edafologia agrícola
Pàgines
16
Publicat per
MDPI
Publicat a
Remote Sensing
Citació
Paolini, Giovanni, Maria Jose Escorihuela, Joaquim Bellvert, and Olivier Merlin. 2021. "Disaggregation Of SMAP Soil Moisture At 20 M Resolution: Validation And Sub-Field Scale Analysis". Remote Sensing 14 (1): 167. doi:10.3390/rs14010167.
Número de l'acord de la subvenció
MICIU/Programa Estatal de I+D+I orientada a los retos de la sociedad/PCI2019-103649/ES/Managing water resources within Mediterranean agrosystems by accounting for spatial structures and connectivities/ALTOS
EC/H2020/823965/EU/Accounting for Climate Change in Water and Agriculture management/ACCWA
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Ús Eficient de l'Aigua en Agricultura
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