Abstract The Global Navigation Satellite System-Reflectometry (GNSS-R) can estimate land surface soil moisture (SSM) as a viable and promising approach. However, it has some large uncertainty in retrieving SSM. In this study, the SSM is retrieved from different Cyclone GNSS (CYGNSS) SSM retrieval models formed with different SSM reference data products, including two blended microwave SSM products from the European Space Agency's Climate Change Initiative (CCI) and the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration's Soil Moisture Operational Product System (SMOPS), and a single microwave sensor-derived Soil Moisture Active Passive (SMAP) Level-3 product. The performance of the developed retrieval models, characterized by spatial resolutions of 36 km × 36 km and 0.25° × 0.25°, is evaluated using K-fold cross-validation. Furthermore, the accuracy of these models is validated against ground measurements acquired from Chinese automated soil moisture observation network. In order to alleviate the impact of spatial mismatching between the predicted gridded SSM and the point-scale in-situ measurements, a cumulative distribution function (CDF) rescaling strategy is applied. The results indicated that all models are effective at capturing spatial variations in SSM, and the SMOPS-based model achieves the highest correlation coefficient (0.930) and the lowest root mean square error (RMSD, 0.028 cm3/cm3), followed by the CCI-based model (0.906 and 0.042 cm3/cm3). The SMAP-based model performs poorly in the comparison. The suboptimal performance of models evaluated with Chinese automated soil moisture measurements is largely attributed to the insufficient calibration of the original reference data in the region.
Retrieval and evaluation of surface soil moisture from CYGNSS using blended microwave soil moisture products
Advances in Space Research ; 73 , 1 ; 456-473
2023-09-28
18 pages
Aufsatz (Zeitschrift)
Elektronische Ressource
Englisch
CYGNSS , Surface soil moisture , CCI , SMOPS , CDF matching
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