scholarly journals A DEEP LEARNING APPROACH TO SOIL MOISTURE ESTIMATION WITH GNSS-R

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Max Roberts ◽  
Ian Colwell ◽  
Clara Chew ◽  
Rashmi Shah ◽  
Stephen Lowe
Keyword(s):  
Soil Moisture ◽  
Deep Learning ◽  
Contextual Information ◽  
Additional Information ◽  
Reflection Measurement ◽  
Target Values ◽  
Global Soil ◽  
Data Driven Approach ◽  
Soil Measurements ◽  
Peak Value

GNSS reflection measurements in the form of delay-Doppler maps (DDM) from the CYGNSS constellation can be used to complement soil measurements from the SMAP Mission, which has a revisit rate too slow for some hydrological/meteorological studies. The standard approach, which only considers the peak value of the DDM, is subject to a significant amount of uncertainty due to the fact that the peak value of the DDM is not only affected by soil moisture, but also complex topography, inundation, and overlying vegetation. We hypothesize that information from the entire 2D DDM could help decrease uncertainty under these conditions. The application of deep learning based techniques has the potential to extract additional information from the entire DDM, while simultaneously allowing for incorporation of additional contextual information from external datasets. This work explored the data-driven approach of convolutional neural networks (CNNs) to determine complex relationships between the reflection measurement and surface parameters, providing a mechanism to achieve improved global soil moisture estimates. A CNN was trained on CYGNSS DDMs and contextual ancillary datasets as inputs, with aligned SMAP soil moisture values as the targets. Data was aggregated into training sets, and a CNN was developed to process them. Predictions from the CNN were studied using an unbiased subset of samples, showing strong correlation with the SMAP target values. With this network, a soil moisture product was generated using DDMs from 2018 which is generally comparable to existing global soil moisture products, but shows potential advantages in spatial resolution and coverage over regions where SMAP does not perform well.

scholarly journals A DEEP LEARNING APPROACH TO SOIL MOISTURE ESTIMATION WITH GNSS-R

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Max Roberts ◽  
Ian Colwell ◽  
Clara Chew ◽  
Rashmi Shah ◽  
Stephen Lowe
Keyword(s):  
Soil Moisture ◽  
Deep Learning ◽  
Contextual Information ◽  
Additional Information ◽  
Reflection Measurement ◽  
Target Values ◽  
Global Soil ◽  
Data Driven Approach ◽  
Soil Measurements ◽  
Peak Value

GNSS reflection measurements in the form of delay-Doppler maps (DDM) from the CYGNSS constellation can be used to complement soil measurements from the SMAP Mission, which has a revisit rate too slow for some hydrological/meteorological studies. The standard approach, which only considers the peak value of the DDM, is subject to a significant amount of uncertainty due to the fact that the peak value of the DDM is not only affected by soil moisture, but also complex topography, inundation, and overlying vegetation. We hypothesize that information from the entire 2D DDM could help decrease uncertainty under these conditions. The application of deep learning based techniques has the potential to extract additional information from the entire DDM, while simultaneously allowing for incorporation of additional contextual information from external datasets. This work explored the data-driven approach of convolutional neural networks (CNNs) to determine complex relationships between the reflection measurement and surface parameters, providing a mechanism to achieve improved global soil moisture estimates. A CNN was trained on CYGNSS DDMs and contextual ancillary datasets as inputs, with aligned SMAP soil moisture values as the targets. Data was aggregated into training sets, and a CNN was developed to process them. Predictions from the CNN were studied using an unbiased subset of samples, showing strong correlation with the SMAP target values. With this network, a soil moisture product was generated using DDMs from 2018 which is generally comparable to existing global soil moisture products, but shows potential advantages in spatial resolution and coverage over regions where SMAP does not perform well.

scholarly journals SOIL MOISTURE RETRIEVAL USING CONVOLUTIONAL NEURAL NETWORKS: APPLICATION TO PASSIVE MICROWAVE REMOTE SENSING

2018 ◽  
Vol XLII-3 ◽  
pp. 583-586 ◽  
Author(s):  
Z. Hu ◽  
L. Xu ◽  
B. Yu
Keyword(s):  
Remote Sensing ◽  
Neural Networks ◽  
Soil Moisture ◽  
Deep Learning ◽  
Convolutional Neural Networks ◽  
Microwave Remote Sensing ◽  
Passive Microwave ◽  
Massive Data ◽  
Passive Microwave Remote Sensing ◽  
Global Soil

A empirical model is established to analyse the daily retrieval of soil moisture from passive microwave remote sensing using convolutional neural networks (CNN). Soil moisture plays an important role in the water cycle. However, with the rapidly increasing of the acquiring technology for remotely sensed data, it's a hard task for remote sensing practitioners to find a fast and convenient model to deal with the massive data. In this paper, the AMSR-E brightness temperatures are used to train CNN for the prediction of the European centre for medium-range weather forecasts (ECMWF) model. Compared with the classical inversion methods, the deep learning-based method is more suitable for global soil moisture retrieval. It is very well supported by graphics processing unit (GPU) acceleration, which can meet the demand of massive data inversion. Once the model trained, a global soil moisture map can be predicted in less than 10 seconds. What's more, the method of soil moisture retrieval based on deep learning can learn the complex texture features from the big remote sensing data. In this experiment, the results demonstrates that the CNN deployed to retrieve global soil moisture can achieve a better performance than the support vector regression (SVR) for soil moisture retrieval.

scholarly journals Global soil moisture data derived through machine learning trained with in-situ measurements

2021 ◽  
Vol 8 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Sungmin O. ◽  
Rene Orth
Keyword(s):  
Machine Learning ◽  
Soil Moisture ◽  
Large Scale ◽  
Short Term Memory ◽  
Temporal Dynamics ◽  
Soil Moisture Data ◽  
Wide Range ◽  
Global Soil

AbstractWhile soil moisture information is essential for a wide range of hydrologic and climate applications, spatially-continuous soil moisture data is only available from satellite observations or model simulations. Here we present a global, long-term dataset of soil moisture derived through machine learning trained with in-situ measurements, SoMo.ml. We train a Long Short-Term Memory (LSTM) model to extrapolate daily soil moisture dynamics in space and in time, based on in-situ data collected from more than 1,000 stations across the globe. SoMo.ml provides multi-layer soil moisture data (0–10 cm, 10–30 cm, and 30–50 cm) at 0.25° spatial and daily temporal resolution over the period 2000–2019. The performance of the resulting dataset is evaluated through cross validation and inter-comparison with existing soil moisture datasets. SoMo.ml performs especially well in terms of temporal dynamics, making it particularly useful for applications requiring time-varying soil moisture, such as anomaly detection and memory analyses. SoMo.ml complements the existing suite of modelled and satellite-based datasets given its distinct derivation, to support large-scale hydrological, meteorological, and ecological analyses.

scholarly journals Deep Learning Forecasts of Soil Moisture: Convolutional Neural Network and Gated Recurrent Unit Models Coupled with Satellite-Derived MODIS, Observations and Synoptic-Scale Climate Index Data

2021 ◽  
Vol 13 (4) ◽  
pp. 554
Author(s):  
A. A. Masrur Ahmed ◽  
Ravinesh C Deo ◽  
Nawin Raj ◽  
Afshin Ghahramani ◽  
Qi Feng ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Neural Network ◽  
Soil Moisture ◽  
Deep Learning ◽  
Convolutional Neural Network ◽  
Climate Index ◽  
Climate Indices ◽  
High Temporal Resolution ◽  
Synoptic Scale ◽  
Time Step ◽  
Gated Recurrent Unit

Remotely sensed soil moisture forecasting through satellite-based sensors to estimate the future state of the underlying soils plays a critical role in planning and managing water resources and sustainable agricultural practices. In this paper, Deep Learning (DL) hybrid models (i.e., CEEMDAN-CNN-GRU) are designed for daily time-step surface soil moisture (SSM) forecasts, employing the gated recurrent unit (GRU), complete ensemble empirical mode decomposition with adaptive noise (CEEMDAN), and convolutional neural network (CNN). To establish the objective model’s viability for SSM forecasting at multi-step daily horizons, the hybrid CEEMDAN-CNN-GRU model is tested at 1st, 5th, 7th, 14th, 21st, and 30th day ahead period by assimilating a comprehensive pool of 52 predictor dataset obtained from three distinct data sources. Data comprise satellite-derived Global Land Data Assimilation System (GLDAS) repository a global, high-temporal resolution, unique terrestrial modelling system, and ground-based variables from Scientific Information Landowners (SILO) and synoptic-scale climate indices. The results demonstrate the forecasting capability of the hybrid CEEMDAN-CNN-GRU model with respect to the counterpart comparative models. This is supported by a relatively lower value of the mean absolute percentage and root mean square error. In terms of the statistical score metrics and infographics employed to test the final model’s utility, the proposed CEEMDAN-CNN-GRU models are considerably superior compared to a standalone and other hybrid method tested on independent SSM data developed through feature selection approaches. Thus, the proposed approach can be successfully implemented in hydrology and agriculture management.

scholarly journals Structured (De)composable Representations Trained with Neural Networks

Computers ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 9 (4) ◽  
pp. 79
Author(s):  
Graham Spinks ◽  
Marie-Francine Moens
Keyword(s):  
Neural Networks ◽  
Deep Learning ◽  
Contextual Information ◽  
Learning To Learn ◽  
Class Label ◽  
Impact Performance ◽  
Novel Technique ◽  
Language Data ◽  
Concept Classes ◽  
Generic Representation

This paper proposes a novel technique for representing templates and instances of concept classes. A template representation refers to the generic representation that captures the characteristics of an entire class. The proposed technique uses end-to-end deep learning to learn structured and composable representations from input images and discrete labels. The obtained representations are based on distance estimates between the distributions given by the class label and those given by contextual information, which are modeled as environments. We prove that the representations have a clear structure allowing decomposing the representation into factors that represent classes and environments. We evaluate our novel technique on classification and retrieval tasks involving different modalities (visual and language data). In various experiments, we show how the representations can be compressed and how different hyperparameters impact performance.

scholarly journals NOAA Satellite Soil Moisture Operational Product System (SMOPS) Version 3.0 Generates Higher Accuracy Blended Satellite Soil Moisture

2020 ◽  
Vol 12 (17) ◽  
pp. 2861
Author(s):  
Jifu Yin ◽  
Xiwu Zhan ◽  
Jicheng Liu
Keyword(s):  
Soil Moisture ◽  
Real Time ◽  
Land Surface ◽  
Vital Role ◽  
Product System ◽  
Global Soil ◽  
One Stop ◽  
Satellite Sensors ◽  
Blended Data

Soil moisture plays a vital role for the understanding of hydrological, meteorological, and climatological land surface processes. To meet the need of real time global soil moisture datasets, a Soil Moisture Operational Product System (SMOPS) has been developed at National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration to produce a one-stop shop for soil moisture observations from all available satellite sensors. What makes the SMOPS unique is its near real time global blended soil moisture product. Since the first version SMOPS publicly released in 2010, the SMOPS has been updated twice based on the users’ feedbacks through improving retrieval algorithms and including observations from new satellite sensors. The version 3.0 SMOPS has been operationally released since 2017. Significant differences in climatological averages lead to remarkable distinctions in data quality between the newest and the older versions of SMOPS blended soil moisture products. This study reveals that the SMOPS version 3.0 has overwhelming advantages of reduced data uncertainties and increased correlations with respect to the quality controlled in situ measurements. The new version SMOPS also presents more robust agreements with the European Space Agency’s Climate Change Initiative (ESA_CCI) soil moisture datasets. With the higher accuracy, the blended data product from the new version SMOPS is expected to benefit the hydrological, meteorological, and climatological researches, as well as numerical weather, climate, and water prediction operations.

scholarly journals The Role of Averaging for Improving Sea Surface Salinity Retrieval from the Soil Moisture and Ocean Salinity (SMOS) Satellite and Impact of Auxiliary Data

2007 ◽  
Vol 24 (2) ◽  
pp. 255-269 ◽  
Author(s):  
Sabine Philipps ◽  
Christine Boone ◽  
Estelle Obligis
Keyword(s):  
Soil Moisture ◽  
Sensitivity Study ◽  
Sea Surface ◽  
Sea Surface Salinity ◽  
Global Ocean ◽  
Surface Salinity ◽  
Auxiliary Data ◽  
Additional Information ◽  
Ocean Salinity

Abstract Soil Moisture and Ocean Salinity (SMOS) was chosen as the European Space Agency’s second Earth Explorer Opportunity mission. One of the objectives is to retrieve sea surface salinity (SSS) from measured brightness temperatures (TBs) at L band with a precision of 0.2 practical salinity units (psu) with averages taken over 200 km by 200 km areas and 10 days [as suggested in the requirements of the Global Ocean Data Assimilation Experiment (GODAE)]. The retrieval is performed here by an inverse model and additional information of auxiliary SSS, sea surface temperature (SST), and wind speed (W). A sensitivity study is done to observe the influence of the TBs and auxiliary data on the SSS retrieval. The key role of TB and W accuracy on SSS retrieval is verified. Retrieval is then done over the Atlantic for two cases. In case A, auxiliary data are simulated from two model outputs by adding white noise. The more realistic case B uses independent databases for reference and auxiliary ocean parameters. For these cases, the RMS error of retrieved SSS on pixel scale is around 1 psu (1.2 for case B). Averaging over GODAE scales reduces the SSS error by a factor of 12 (4 for case B). The weaker error reduction in case B is most likely due to the correlation of errors in auxiliary data. This study shows that SSS retrieval will be very sensitive to errors on auxiliary data. Specific efforts should be devoted to improving the quality of auxiliary data.

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