Soil Moisture Retrieval over a Semiarid Area by Means of PCA Dimensionality Reduction
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Abstract
The main objective of this study is to develop a multifeature soil moisture retrieval method based on the principal component analysis (PCA) dimensionality reduction technique. RADARSAT-2 data were used to compute the backscattering coefficients and polarimetric variables. The optimal input features for soil moisture retrieval were selected by means of PCA dimensionality reduction and least root mean square error (RMSE) criterion. The support vector regression (SVR) model was used to estimate soil moisture content. The results indicated that the optimal features extracted by the PCA dimensionality reduction showed high correlation with soil moisture content. The RMSE, R2 (determination coefficient) and mean relative error (MRE) were (1.4 vol.%, 0.73, 18.2%) and (1.6 vol.%, 0.66, 15.6%) over the low grass cover areas A and B, respectively. For the bare soil areas A and B, the statistic results were (1.3 vol.%, 0.76, 12.1%) and (1.6 vol.%, 0.72, 14.9%), respectively. This case study confirmed the potential of the developed approach to estimate soil moisture over the low grass cover and bare soil areas.
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| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
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| Open science | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Research integrity | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
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