Professor Nevil Quinn Nevil.Quinn@uwe.ac.uk
Professor in Applied Hydrology
Progress in evaluating satellite soil moisture products in Great Britain against COSMOS-UK and in-situ soil moisture measurements
Quinn, Nevil; Newton, Chris; Boorman, David; Horswell, Michael; West, Harry
Authors
Chris Newton Christopher.Newton@uwe.ac.uk
Technical Instructor GIS and Data Analytics
David Boorman
Michael Horswell Michael.Horswell@uwe.ac.uk
Senior Lecturer in GIS & Spatial Analysis
Dr Harry West Harry.West@uwe.ac.uk
Senior Lecturer in Geography & Environmental Management
Abstract
The resolution of satellite of satellite-derived soil moisture data products has matured, notably in recent years due to the Soil Moisture Active Passive mission (SMAP) launched in 2015. Whilst spatial resolutions still fall short of those suitable for field-scale monitoring, there are several ‘value-added’ RS soil moisture products available at the regional (e.g. SMAP: 36km) to meso-scale (e.g. SMAP: 9km) resolution. Although the intended 3km scale SMAP product did not materialise due to the failure of the L-Band radar, a potential substitute product has recently become available (Das et al. 2019). The SMAP-Sentinel1 product combines data from SMAP and C-Band Sentinel 1A/B SAR data to synthesise global soil moisture at a 3km and 1km resolution (~6 day revisit for Europe).
Evaluation of these products against ground-based measurements in the USA and elsewhere is encouraging, but only preliminary evaluation has been undertaken in the United Kingdom. Evaluation is always challenging because (i) rather than a direct measurement, satellite estimates are based on other measured properties (e.g. brightness temperature) with soil moisture algorithmically inferred, (ii) ground-based measurements are highly localised in comparison with the measurement averaged over the satellites much larger pixel resolution, and (iii) satellite sensors typically estimate only surface soil moisture (0-5cm).
The COSMOS-UK network, under development since 2013, provides high resolution soil moisture data at 51 sites in the UK, corresponding to a variety of climatic, soil and land cover settings. Sites typically contain soil moisture probes at a variety of depths (including 10cm) as well as a cosmic ray sensor. The latter integrates soil moisture over an area of ~12ha, and while not matching the spatial scale or soil depth of satellite measurements, it does avoid some of the field-scale heterogeneity issues associated with point-based measurements.
The 9km SMAP L3 product performs well against 10cm soil probe measurements at most sites (>70% at ubRMSE
Presentation Conference Type | Conference Paper (unpublished) |
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Conference Name | EGU2020: Sharing Geoscience Online |
Start Date | May 4, 2020 |
End Date | May 8, 2020 |
Publication Date | Mar 10, 2020 |
Deposit Date | May 1, 2020 |
Publicly Available Date | May 4, 2020 |
DOI | https://doi.org/10.5194/egusphere-egu2020-15831 |
Public URL | https://uwe-repository.worktribe.com/output/5951430 |
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