Soil moisture estimation from Sentinel-1 interferometric observations over arid regions

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2210.10665v1
• Date: Tue, 18 Oct 2022 15:32:13 GMT
• Title: Soil moisture estimation from Sentinel-1 interferometric observations over arid regions
• Authors: Kleanthis Karamvasis, Vassilia Karathanassi
• Abstract summary: We present a methodology based on interferometric synthetic aperture radar (InSAR) time series analysis. It can provide surface (top 5 cm) soil moisture (SSM) estimations. A case study over an arid region in California/Arizona is presented.
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• License: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
• Abstract: We present a methodology based on interferometric synthetic aperture radar (InSAR) time series analysis that can provide surface (top 5 cm) soil moisture (SSM) estimations. The InSAR time series analysis consists of five processing steps. A co-registered Single Look Complex (SLC) SAR stack as well as meteorological information are required as input of the proposed workflow. In the first step, ice/snow-free and zero-precipitation SAR images are identified using meteorological data. In the second step, construction and phase extraction of distributed scatterers (DSs) (over bare land) is performed. In the third step, for each DS the ordering of surface soil moisture (SSM) levels of SAR acquisitions based on interferometric coherence is calculated. In the fourth step, for each DS the coherence due to SSM variations is calculated. In the fifth step, SSM is estimated by a constrained inversion of an analytical interferometric model using coherence and phase closure information. The implementation of the proposed approach is provided as an open-source software toolbox (INSAR4SM) available at www.github.com/kleok/INSAR4SM. A case study over an arid region in California/Arizona is presented. The proposed workflow was applied in Sentinel- 1 (C-band) VV-polarized InSAR observations. The estimated SSM results were assessed with independent SSM observations from a station of the International Soil Moisture Network (ISMN) (RMSE: 0.027 $m^3/m^3$ R: 0.88) and ERA5-Land reanalysis model data (RMSE: 0.035 $m^3/m^3$ R: 0.71). The proposed methodology was able to provide accurate SSM estimations at high spatial resolution (~250 m). A discussion of the benefits and the limitations of the proposed methodology highlighted the potential of interferometric observables for SSM estimation over arid regions.

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