Intercomparison of Downscaling Techniques for Satellite Soil Moisture Products. (27th August 2018)
- Record Type:
- Journal Article
- Title:
- Intercomparison of Downscaling Techniques for Satellite Soil Moisture Products. (27th August 2018)
- Main Title:
- Intercomparison of Downscaling Techniques for Satellite Soil Moisture Products
- Authors:
- Kim, Daeun
Moon, Heewon
Kim, Hyunglok
Im, Jungho
Choi, Minha - Other Names:
- Yin Jifu Academic Editor.
- Abstract:
- Abstract : During recent decades, various downscaling methods of satellite soil moisture (SM) products, which incorporate geophysical variables such as land surface temperature and vegetation, have been studied for improving their spatial resolution. Most of these studies have used least squares regression models built from those variables and have demonstrated partial improvement in the downscaled SM. This study introduces a new downscaling method based on support vector regression (SVR) that includes the geophysical variables with locational weighting. Regarding the in situ SM, the SVR downscaling method exhibited a smaller root mean square error, from 0.09 to 0.07 m 3 ·m −3, and a larger average correlation coefficient increased, from 0.62 to 0.68, compared to the conventional method. In addition, the SM downscaled using the SVR method had a greater statistical resemblance to that of the original advanced scatterometer SM. A residual magnitude analysis for each model with two independent variables was performed, which indicated that only the residuals from the SVR model were not well correlated, suggesting a more effective performance than regression models with a significant contribution of independent variables to residual magnitude. The spatial variations of the downscaled SM products were affected by the seasonal patterns in temperature-vegetation relationships, and the SVR downscaling method showed more consistent performance in terms of seasonal effect. Based onAbstract : During recent decades, various downscaling methods of satellite soil moisture (SM) products, which incorporate geophysical variables such as land surface temperature and vegetation, have been studied for improving their spatial resolution. Most of these studies have used least squares regression models built from those variables and have demonstrated partial improvement in the downscaled SM. This study introduces a new downscaling method based on support vector regression (SVR) that includes the geophysical variables with locational weighting. Regarding the in situ SM, the SVR downscaling method exhibited a smaller root mean square error, from 0.09 to 0.07 m 3 ·m −3, and a larger average correlation coefficient increased, from 0.62 to 0.68, compared to the conventional method. In addition, the SM downscaled using the SVR method had a greater statistical resemblance to that of the original advanced scatterometer SM. A residual magnitude analysis for each model with two independent variables was performed, which indicated that only the residuals from the SVR model were not well correlated, suggesting a more effective performance than regression models with a significant contribution of independent variables to residual magnitude. The spatial variations of the downscaled SM products were affected by the seasonal patterns in temperature-vegetation relationships, and the SVR downscaling method showed more consistent performance in terms of seasonal effect. Based on these results, the suggested SVR downscaling method is an effective approach to improve the spatial resolution of satellite SM measurements. … (more)
- Is Part Of:
- Advances in meteorology. Volume 2018(2018)
- Journal:
- Advances in meteorology
- Issue:
- Volume 2018(2018)
- Issue Display:
- Volume 2018, Issue 2018 (2018)
- Year:
- 2018
- Volume:
- 2018
- Issue:
- 2018
- Issue Sort Value:
- 2018-2018-2018-0000
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- Publication Date:
- 2018-08-27
- Subjects:
- Meteorology -- Periodicals
Meteorology
Periodicals
551.505 - Journal URLs:
- https://www.hindawi.com/journals/amete/ ↗
http://rzblx1.uni-regensburg.de/ezeit/warpto.phtml?colors=7&jour_id=115640 ↗
http://bibpurl.oclc.org/web/41835 ↗ - DOI:
- 10.1155/2018/4832423 ↗
- Languages:
- English
- ISSNs:
- 1687-9309
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