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An L-Band Brightness Temperature Disaggregation Method Using S-Band Radiometer Data for the Water Cycle Observation Mission (WCOM)
- Source :
- IEEE Journal of Selected Topics in Applied Earth Observations and Remote Sensing. 12:3184-3193
- Publication Year :
- 2019
- Publisher :
- Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE), 2019.
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Abstract
- The water cycle observation mission (WCOM) will build upon previous L and C band passive microwave soil moisture satellite missions. WCOM will consist of a passive microwave synthetic aperture radiometer operating at L , S , and C bands. The WCOM requirements for passive soil moisture are to estimate soil moisture in the top 5 cm of soil layer with an error less than 0.04 m3/m3, at 15-km resolution and with a 3-day revisit. A new set of algorithms for these multi-frequency platforms will need to be developed for estimating the data products at the desired resolution. To accomplish this, a brightness temperature (TB) downscaling methodology is developed that uses passive S -band TB (30 km) to downscale L -band TB (50 km) and to estimate soil moisture at a 30-km resolution, based on the linear relationships between the passive signals of L band and S band. To test this downscaling method, analysis was performed using PALS data from the Soil Moisture Experiments in 2002 (SMEX02). For this study, 4-km L -band observations were downscaled to 800 m. The root mean square errors between the downscaled TBL at 800 m with the observed TBL at 800 m are 2.63 and 1.60 K for H and V polarizations, respectively. The results also showed that it was possible to use these disaggregated TB to estimate soil moisture to meet the mission requirement of 0.04 m3/m3. These results showed that we can obtain higher resolution soil moisture from the L -band passive TB with a high accuracy ( S -band information.
- Subjects :
- Atmospheric Science
L band
Radiometer
010504 meteorology & atmospheric sciences
C band
0211 other engineering and technologies
02 engineering and technology
01 natural sciences
Brightness temperature
Environmental science
Satellite
S band
Computers in Earth Sciences
Water content
Microwave
021101 geological & geomatics engineering
0105 earth and related environmental sciences
Remote sensing
Subjects
Details
- ISSN :
- 21511535 and 19391404
- Volume :
- 12
- Database :
- OpenAIRE
- Journal :
- IEEE Journal of Selected Topics in Applied Earth Observations and Remote Sensing
- Accession number :
- edsair.doi...........ead0f95db44a10b6911bc8dcdca566b6