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The Method of Decomposing the Passive Microwave Soil Moisture Using Optical Information
Received date: 2011-10-21
Revised date: 2012-09-13
Online published: 2012-10-25
The water held in the top few centimeters of the soil is a key variable in many hydrological, climatological and ecological processes. These data are difficult and costly to acquire through in situ measurements, especially at high temporal frequencies. Different types of remote sensing systems are currently used to infer soil moisture at different spatial and temporal scales, each with its specific characteristics and limitations. The soil moisture retrieval from passive microwave is not affected by the weather, and the algorithm is mature and reliable. But the spatial resolution of spaceborne passive microwave data is too low for many local applications, and the data are suitable for large scale studies. Optical sensors complemented with thermal infrared channels have, in spite of the strong atmospheric attenuation and the limited penetration depth of the used signal, received much attention as a source of information on soil moisture content and surface evaporation. The way the high spatial resolution surface evaporation information contained in optical/thermal sensors can be combined with relatively low resolution soil moisture. Selecting 1km resolution the Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS) optical data and 25km resolution the Advanced Microwave Scanning Radiometer for EOS (AMSR-E) passive microwave data 2 level of soil moisture product, the authors used NDVI-Ts feature space to remove the vegetation effect, and decompose the passive microwave soil moisture through a soil evaporation model. At last the authors got the 1km resolution soil moisture. Through building scatter diagram, it could be found that the relevance between the inversion result and 1km Temperature Vegetation Drought Index (TVDI) reached 0.569. The quantitative results of the study still need further validation and improvement.
Key words： soil evaporation efficiency; passive microwave; TVDI; soil moisture; MODIS
WANG An-Qi, SHI Jian-Cheng, A Che, GONG Hui-Li-* . The Method of Decomposing the Passive Microwave Soil Moisture Using Optical Information[J]. Journal of Geo-information Science, 2012 , 14(5) : 652 -657 . DOI: 10.3724/SP.J.1047.2012.00652
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