Browsing by Author "Peggy E. O'Neill"

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Appraisal of SMAP operational soil moisture product from a global perspective
(MDPI AG, 2020) Swati Suman; Prashant K. Srivastava; George P. Petropoulos; Dharmendra K. Pandey; Peggy E. O'Neill
Space-borne soil moisture (SM) satellite products such as those available from Soil Moisture Active Passive (SMAP) offer unique opportunities for global and frequent monitoring of SM and also to understand its spatiotemporal variability. The present study investigates the performance of the SMAP L4 SM product at selected experimental sites across four continents, namely North America, Europe, Asia and Australia. This product provides global scale SM estimates at 9 km x 9 km spatial resolution at daily intervals. For the product evaluation, co-orbital in situ SM measurements were used, acquired at 14 test sites in North America, Europe, and Australia belonging to the International Soil Moisture Network (ISMN) and local networks in India. The satellite SM estimates of up to 0-5 cm soil layer were compared against collocated ground measurements using a series of statistical scores. Overall, the best performance of the SMAP product was found in North America (RMSE = 0.05 m3/m3) followed by Australia (RMSE = 0.08 m3/m3), Asia (RMSE = 0.09 m3/m3) and Europe (RMSE = 0.14 m3/m3). Our findings provide important insights into the spatiotemporal variability of the specific operational SM product in different ecosystems and environments. This study also furnishes an independent verification of this global product, which is of international interest given its suitability for a wide range of practical and research applications. © 2020 by the authors.
Passive Only Microwave Soil Moisture Retrieval in Indian Cropping Conditions: Model Parameterization and Validation
(Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc., 2023) Dileep Kumar Gupta; Prashant K. Srivastava; Dharmendra Kumar Pandey; Sumit Kumar Chaudhary; Rajendra Prasad; Peggy E. O'Neill
The present study carried out to parameterize the single channel soil moisture active passive (SMAP) passive soil moisture (SM) retrieval algorithm, over Indian conditions. The moderate resolution imaging spectroradiometer (MODIS) data products and soil texture data were used for an improved parameterization of the algorithm. The bias correction was applied to the MODIS leaf area index (LAI) for accurate computation of vegetation optical depth. The necessary vegetation and roughness parameter were calibrated through minimization of the error between model retrieved and ground measured SM. The value of root mean square error (RMSE) for retrieved SM was found as 0.059m3m-3 with bias and correlation coefficients of 0.036m3m-3 and 0.724 for ascending overpass, respectively, while a lower value was recorded (RMSE = 0.059m3m-3, bias = 0.024m3m-3, and correlation coefficients = 0.752) for descending overpass. The same method is also implemented on two other test sites in different regions of India to check the model robustness, which indicates that the current parameterization provides a better estimate of SM over croplands in India. The overall performance of new parameterized model is found as (RMSE = 0.052 and bias = 0.034) for ascending and descending (RMSE = 0.048 and bias = 0.026) satellite overpasses for all the three test sites. Additionally, the intercomparing of various operational SM products SMAP SM (L2_SM_P), Soil Moisture and Ocean Salinity (SMOS) SM (SMOS_L3_SM), and SMOS-IC data products was carried out with the SAC-ISRO PAN India SM network, which showed a significant RMSE, dry and wet biases over all three test sites as compared to the developed improved parameterized algorithm. © 1980-2012 IEEE.