Sentinel-1 Backscatter Assimilation Using Support Vector Regression or the Water Cloud Model at European Soil Moisture Sites

Dominik Rains; Hans Lievens; Gabrielle J. M. De Lannoy; Matthew McCabe; Richard A. M. de Jeu; Diego G. Miralles

doi:10.1109/lgrs.2021.3073484

Sentinel-1 Backscatter Assimilation Using Support Vector Regression or the Water Cloud Model at European Soil Moisture Sites

Dominik Rains, Hans Lievens, Gabrielle J. M. De Lannoy, Matthew McCabe, Richard A. M. de Jeu, Diego G. Miralles

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Sentinel-1 backscatter observations were assimilated into the Global Land Evaporation Amsterdam Model (GLEAM) using an ensemble Kalman filter. As a forward operator, which is required to simulate backscatter from soil moisture and leaf area index (LAI), we evaluated both the traditional water cloud model (WCM) and the support vector regression (SVR). With SVR, a closer fit between backscatter observations and simulations was achieved. The impact on the correlation between modeled and in situ soil moisture measurements was similar when assimilating the Sentinel data using WCM (Δ R = +0.037) or SVR (Δ R = +0.025).

Original language	English (US)
Pages (from-to)	1-5
Number of pages	5
Journal	IEEE Geoscience and Remote Sensing Letters
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1109/lgrs.2021.3073484
State	Published - 2021

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KAUST Repository Item: Exported on 2021-06-17
Acknowledgements: This work was supported by the Belgian Science Policy Office as part of the ET-Sense project within the STEREO III programme
(contract SR/02/377).

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Geotechnical Engineering and Engineering Geology
Electrical and Electronic Engineering

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