Decomposition-Based Soil Moisture Estimation Using UAVSAR Fully Polarimetric Images

Author:

Akhavan ZeinabORCID,Hasanlou MahdiORCID,Hosseini Mehdi,McNairn HeatherORCID

Abstract

Polarimetric decomposition extracts scattering features that are indicative of the physical characteristics of the target. In this study, three polarimetric decomposition methods were tested for soil moisture estimation over agricultural fields using machine learning algorithms. Features extracted from model-based Freeman–Durden, Eigenvalue and Eigenvector based H/A/α, and Van Zyl decompositions were used as inputs in random forest and neural network regression algorithms. These algorithms were applied to retrieve soil moisture over soybean, wheat, and corn fields. A time series of polarimetric Uninhabited Aerial Vehicle Synthetic Aperture Radar (UAVSAR) data acquired during the Soil Moisture Active Passive Experiment 2012 (SMAPVEX12) field campaign was used for the training and validation of the algorithms. Three feature selection methods were tested to determine the best input features for the machine learning algorithms. The most accurate soil moisture estimates were derived from the random forest regression algorithm for soybeans, with a correlation of determination (R2) of 0.86, root mean square error (RMSE) of 0.041 m3 m−3 and mean absolute error (MAE) of 0.030 m3 m−3. Feature selection also impacted results. Some features like anisotropy, Horizontal transmit and Horizontal receive (HH), and surface roughness parameters (correlation length and RMS-H) had a direct effect on all algorithm performance enhancement as these parameters have a direct impact on the backscattered signal.

Publisher

MDPI AG

Subject

Agronomy and Crop Science

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