Using radiative transfer models for mapping soil moisture content under grassland with UAS-borne hyperspectral data

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Veronika Döpper ◽  
Alby Duarte Rocha ◽  
Tobias . Gränzig ◽  
Birgit Kleinschmit ◽  
Michael Förster
Keyword(s):  
Soil Moisture ◽  
Radiative Transfer ◽  
Moisture Content ◽  
Soil Moisture Content ◽  
Hyperspectral Data ◽  
Radiative Transfer Models ◽  
Transfer Models

scholarly journals Mapping barrier island soil moisture using a radiative transfer model of hyperspectral imagery from an unmanned aerial system

2021 ◽  
Vol 11 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Rehman S. Eon ◽  
Charles M. Bachmann
Keyword(s):  
Soil Moisture ◽  
Radiative Transfer ◽  
Moisture Content ◽  
Layer Thickness ◽  
Soil Moisture Content ◽  
Hyperspectral Imagery ◽  
Barrier Island ◽  
Water Layer ◽  
Radiative Transfer Model ◽  
Transfer Model

AbstractThe advent of remote sensing from unmanned aerial systems (UAS) has opened the door to more affordable and effective methods of imaging and mapping of surface geophysical properties with many important applications in areas such as coastal zone management, ecology, agriculture, and defense. We describe a study to validate and improve soil moisture content retrieval and mapping from hyperspectral imagery collected by a UAS system. Our approach uses a recently developed model known as the multilayer radiative transfer model of soil reflectance (MARMIT). MARMIT partitions contributions due to water and the sediment surface into equivalent but separate layers and describes these layers using an equivalent slab model formalism. The model water layer thickness along with the fraction of wet surface become parameters that must be optimized in a calibration step, with extinction due to water absorption being applied in the model based on equivalent water layer thickness, while transmission and reflection coefficients follow the Fresnel formalism. In this work, we evaluate the model in both field settings, using UAS hyperspectral imagery, and laboratory settings, using hyperspectral spectra obtained with a goniometer. Sediment samples obtained from four different field sites representing disparate environmental settings comprised the laboratory analysis while field validation used hyperspectral UAS imagery and coordinated ground truth obtained on a barrier island shore during field campaigns in 2018 and 2019. Analysis of the most significant wavelengths for retrieval indicate a number of different wavelengths in the short-wave infra-red (SWIR) that provide accurate fits to measured soil moisture content in the laboratory with normalized root mean square error (NRMSE)< 0.145, while independent evaluation from sequestered test data from the hyperspectral UAS imagery obtained during the field campaign obtained an average NRMSE = 0.169 and median NRMSE = 0.152 in a bootstrap analysis.

Regional estimation of woodland moisture content by inverting Radiative Transfer Models

2013 ◽  
Vol 132 ◽  
pp. 59-70 ◽  
Author(s):  
Sara Jurdao ◽  
Marta Yebra ◽  
Juan Pablo Guerschman ◽  
Emilio Chuvieco
Keyword(s):  
Radiative Transfer ◽  
Moisture Content ◽  
Radiative Transfer Models ◽  
Regional Estimation ◽  
Transfer Models

Coupled Machine Learning and Unmanned Aerial Vehicle Based Hyperspectral Data for Soil moisture Content Estimation

2020 ◽  
Vol 57 (9) ◽  
pp. 093002
Author(s):  
田美玲 Tian Meiling ◽  
葛翔宇 Ge Xiangyu ◽  
丁建丽 Ding Jianli ◽  
王敬哲 Wang Jingzhe ◽  
张振华 Zhang Zhenhua
Keyword(s):  
Machine Learning ◽  
Soil Moisture ◽  
Moisture Content ◽  
Unmanned Aerial Vehicle ◽  
Soil Moisture Content ◽  
Hyperspectral Data ◽  
Aerial Vehicle

scholarly journals Retrieval of Soil Moisture Content Based on a Modified Hapke Photometric Model: A Novel Method Applied to Laboratory Hyperspectral and Sentinel-2 MSI Data

2020 ◽  
Vol 12 (14) ◽  
pp. 2239 ◽  
Author(s):  
Yuan Zhang ◽  
Kun Tan ◽  
Xue Wang ◽  
Yu Chen
Keyword(s):  
Soil Moisture ◽  
Moisture Content ◽  
Soil Moisture Content ◽  
Surface Soil ◽  
Linear Regression Analysis ◽  
Single Scattering ◽  
Hyperspectral Data ◽  
Surface Soil Moisture ◽  
Moisture Index ◽  
Sentinel 2

Soil moisture is the crucial carrier of the global hydrologic cycle and the dynamic energy balance regulation process. Therefore, it is of great significance to monitor surface soil moisture content (SMC) accurately for the study of the natural ecological environment. The Hapke model is the most widely used photometric model in soil remote sensing research, but the development of this model is limited by the lack of valid multi–angular data. The main innovations of this paper have two aspects: (1) A novel soil moisture retrieval approach based on the Hapke (SMR–Hapke) model is derived by exploring the relationship between single scattering albedo (SSA) and SMC on the optical bands from 400 to 2400 nm. The performance of the proposed model was verified on a dataset consisting of four different soil samples, and the experimental results indicated that the inverted soil moisture from SMR–Hapke model coincided with the measurement values, with the R2 being generally more than 0.9 in the solar domain. (2) The SMR–Hapke model has been reduced to a linear form on the SWIR field and a physically-based normalized difference soil moisture index N D S M I H a p k e   has been proposed. Based on the laboratory-based hyperspectral data, we compared the performance of N D S M I H a p k e   with other traditional soil moisture indices using linear regression analysis, and the results demonstrate that the proposed N D S M I H a p k e   had a great potential for estimating SMC with R2 values of 0.88. Finally, high–resolution SMC map was produced by combining the Sentinel–2 MSI data with N D S M I H a p k e . This study provides a novel extended Hapke model for the estimation of surface soil moisture content.

Analysis on Soil Moisture Content in the Middle Reaches of the Yellow River

2011 ◽  
Vol 28 (1) ◽  
pp. 85-91 ◽  
Author(s):  
Run-chun LI ◽  
Xiu-zhi ZHANG ◽  
Li-hua WANG ◽  
Xin-yan LV ◽  
Yuan GAO
Keyword(s):  
Soil Moisture ◽  
Moisture Content ◽  
Soil Moisture Content ◽  
Yellow River ◽  
The Yellow River

Distribution of soil moisture content and its effect on the potential growth of the over-story species in North-East Chalkidiki

2001 ◽  
Vol 66 ◽  
Author(s):  
M. Aslanidou ◽  
P. Smiris
Keyword(s):  
Soil Moisture ◽  
Moisture Content ◽  
Soil Moisture Content ◽  
Soil Depth ◽  
Moisture Distribution ◽  
Taxus Baccata ◽  
Mixed Stands ◽  
Potential Growth ◽  
North East ◽  
Soil Moisture Distribution

This  study deals with the soil moisture distribution and its effect on the  potential growth and    adaptation of the over-story species in north-east Chalkidiki. These  species are: Quercus    dalechampii Ten, Quercus  conferta Kit, Quercus  pubescens Willd, Castanea  sativa Mill, Fagus    moesiaca Maly-Domin and also Taxus baccata L. in mixed stands  with Fagus moesiaca.    Samples of soil, 1-2 kg per 20cm depth, were taken and the moisture content  of each sample    was measured in order to determine soil moisture distribution and its  contribution to the growth    of the forest species. The most important results are: i) available water  is influenced by the soil    depth. During the summer, at a soil depth of 10 cm a significant  restriction was observed. ii) the    large duration of the dry period in the deep soil layers has less adverse  effect on stands growth than in the case of the soil surface layers, due to the fact that the root system mainly spreads out    at a soil depth of 40 cm iii) in the beginning of the growing season, the  soil moisture content is    greater than 30 % at a soil depth of 60 cm, in beech and mixed beech-yew  stands, is 10-15 % in    the Q. pubescens  stands and it's more than 30 % at a soil depth of 60 cm in Q. dalechampii    stands.

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