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SMOS Level-2 Soil Moisture Product Evaluation in Rain-Fed Croplands of the Pampean Region of Argentina
Niclos, Raquel; Rivas, Raúl Eduardo; Garcia Santos, Vicente; Doña, Carolina; Valor, Enric; Holzman, Mauro Ezequiel
; Bayala, Martin Ignacio; Carmona, Facundo
; Ocampo, Dora Ester
; Soldano, Alvaro; Thibeault, Marc; Caselles, Vicente; Sanchez, Juan M.
Fecha de publicación:
01/2016
Editorial:
Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers
Revista:
Ieee Transactions On Geoscience And Remote Sensing
ISSN:
0196-2892
Idioma:
Inglés
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Artículo publicado
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Resumen
A field campaign was carried out to evaluate the Soil Moisture (SM) MIR-SMUDP2 product (v5.51) generated from the data of the Microwave Imaging Radiometer using Aperture Synthesis (MIRAS) aboard the Soil Moisture and Ocean Salinity (SMOS) mission. The study area was the Pampean Region of Argentina, which was selected because it is a vast area of flatlands containing quite homogeneous rain-fed croplands, which are considered SMOS nominal land uses and hardly affected by radio-frequency interference contamination. Transects of ground handheld SM measurements were performed using ThetaProbe ML2x probes within four Icosahedral Snyder Equal Area Earth (ISEA) grid nodes, where permanent SM stations are located. The campaign results showed a negative bias of-0.02 m3m-3 between concurrent SMOS data and ground SM measurements, which means a slight SMOS underestimation, and a standard deviation of ±0.06 m3m-3. Additionally, a good correlation was obtained between the handheld SM measurements taken during the campaign and the permanent SM station data within a node, which pointed out that the station data could be used as reference data to evaluate the SMOS product over a longer temporal period. SMOS-retrieved data were also compared with station mean SM values from 2012 to 2014. A general SMOS underestimation of ± -0.05m3m-3 was observed, with a standard deviation of ± 0.04m3m-3, which yields an uncertainty of ± 0.07m3m-3 for the SMOS product. Although the random error meets the SMOS mission's goal of ± 0.04m3m-3, the product overall uncertainty is higher than that due to the significant dry bias, which is also found in other regions of the world.
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Niclos, Raquel; Rivas, Raúl Eduardo; Garcia Santos, Vicente; Doña, Carolina; Valor, Enric; et al.; SMOS Level-2 Soil Moisture Product Evaluation in Rain-Fed Croplands of the Pampean Region of Argentina; Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers; Ieee Transactions On Geoscience And Remote Sensing; 54; 1; 1-2016; 499-512
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