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标题：Downscaling of SMAP Soil Moisture Using Land Surface Temperature and Vegetation Data
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作者：Bin Fang ; Venkataraman Lakshmi ; Rajat Bindlish 等
期刊名称：Vadose Zone Journal
电子版ISSN：1539-1663
出版年度：2018
卷号：17
期号：1
页码：1-14
DOI：10.2136/vzj2017.11.0198
出版社：Soil Science Society of America, Inc.
摘要：Core Ideas We present a soil moisture downscaling algorithm based on thermal inertia theory. Vegetation modulates the soil moisture–surface temperature difference relationship. This algorithm better characterized soil moisture spatial and temporal variability. Remotely sensed soil moisture retrieved by the Soil Moisture Active and Passive (SMAP) sensor is currently provided at a 9‐km grid resolution. Although valuable, some applications in weather, agriculture, ecology, and watershed hydrology require soil moisture at a higher spatial resolution. In this study, a passive microwave soil moisture downscaling algorithm based on thermal inertia theory was improved for use with SMAP and applied to a data set collected at a field experiment. This algorithm utilizes a normalized difference vegetation index (NDVI) modulated relationship between daytime soil moisture and daily temperature change modeled using output variables from the land surface model of the North American Land Data Assimilation System (NLDAS) and remote sensing data from the Moderate‐Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS) and Advanced Very High Resolution Radiometer (AVHRR). The reference component of the algorithm was developed at the NLDAS grid size (12.5 km) to downscale the SMAP Level 3 radiometer‐based 9‐km soil moisture to 1 km. The downscaled results were validated using data acquired in Soil Moisture Active Passive Validation Experiment 2015 (SMAPVEX15) that included in situ soil moisture and Passive Active L‐band System (PALS) airborne instrument observations. The resulting downscaled SMAP estimates better characterize soil moisture spatial and temporal variability and have better overall validation metrics than the original SMAP soil moisture estimates. Additionally, the overall accuracy of the downscaled SMAP soil moisture is comparable to the PALS high spatial resolution soil moisture retrievals. The method demonstrated in this study downscales satellite soil moisture to produce a 1‐km product that is not site specific and could be applied to other regions of the world using the publicly available NLDAS/Global Land Data Assimilation System data.
关键词：AMSR-E; Advanced Microwave Scanning Radiometer for Earth Observing Satellite; AVHRR; Advanced Very High Resolution Radiometer; ECDF; empirical cumulative distribution function; ET; evapotranspiration; IDW; inverse distance weighting; LST; land surface temperature; LTDR; Long Term Data Record; MODIS; Moderate-Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer; NDVI; normalized difference vegetation index; NLDAS; North American Land Data Assimilation System; PALS; Passive Active L-band System; SMAP; Soil Moisture Active Passive sensor; SMAPVEX15; Soil Moisture Active Passive Validation Experiment 2015; SMOS; Soil Moisture and Ocean Salinity