Use of Soil Moisture Variability in Artificial Neural Network Retrieval of Soil Moisture 英文参考文献.docVIP

Remote Sensing 2010, 2, 166-190; doi:10.3390/rs2010166 OPEN ACCESS Remote Sensing ISSN 2072-4292 /journal/remotesensing Article Use of Soil Moisture Variability in Artificial Neural Network Retrieval of Soil Moisture Soo-See Chai 1,*, Jeffrey P. Walker 2, Oleg Makarynskyy 3, Michael Kuhn 1, Bert Veenendaal 1 and Geoff West 1 1 Department of Spatial Sciences, Curtin University of Technology, Perth, WA 6000, Australia; E-Mails: M.Kuhn@.au (M.K.); b.veenendaal@.au (B.V.); g.west@.au (G.W.) 2 Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, The University of Melbourne, Victoria 3010, Australia; E-Mail: j.walker@.au 3 Asia-Pacific Applied Science Associates (APASA), P.O. Box 7650 Cloisters Square, Perth, WA 6850, Australia; E-Mail: omakarynskyy@.au * Author to whom correspondence should be addressed; E-Mail: soosee.chai@.au; Tel.: +618-926-67562. Received: 10 October 2009; in revised form: 9 December 2009 / Accepted: 23 December 2009 / Published: 31 December 2009 Abstract: Passive microwave remote sensing is one of the most promising techniques for soil moisture retrieval. However, the inversion of soil moisture from brightness temperature observations is not straightforward, as it is influenced by numerous factors such as surface roughness, vegetation cover, and soil texture. Moreover, the relationship between brightness temperature, soil moisture and the factors mentioned above is highly non-linear and ill-posed. Consequently, Artificial Neural Networks (ANNs) have been used to retrieve soil moisture from microwave data, but with limited success when dealing with data different to that from the training period. In this study, an ANN is tested for its ability to predict soil moisture at 1 km resolution on different dates following training at the same site for a specific date. A novel approach that utilizes information on the variability of soil moisture, in terms of its mean and sta