The Potential of Low-Frequency Polarimetric SAR Data for Soil Carbon Content Retrieval in the Arctic
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Abstract
Accurate soil carbon data are important for understanding the permafrost response and potential carbon release to future climate change. However, there is a large discrepancy in current soil organic carbon (SOC) estimates in the Arctic, where sparse measurements are unable to capture SOC complexity over the vast and remote region. Polarimetric Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR) data are sensitive to roughness and moisture conditions of soil and vegetation, and may provide useful information on surface and profile SOC properties ( Yi et al., 2021 , 2022 ). The NASA Arctic Boreal Vulnerability Experiment (ABoVE) airborne campaign acquired an abundance of full-polarimetric P- and L-band SAR data across Alaska and western Canada ( Miller et al., 2019 ), which provides opportunities to test new remote sensing applications. The main objective of this study is to investigate the potential of low-frequency polarimetric SAR data for regional SOC retrieval in the Arctic through data analysis and modeling. We chose the Alaska North Slope as our study area due to more in-situ data available in this area.
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How this classification was reachedexpand
Full frame machine prediction
Teacher imitationNot calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. The Gemma side is a direct model label for every work in the frame, read from the title-only record. The Codex side is a classifier learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and calibrated to design-weighted sample rates; fields without enough sample support carry no Codex call. Candidate is the union of the two sides; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels.
Distilled classifier scores by category (both heads)
| Category | Codex | Gemma |
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| Metaresearch | 0.000 | 0.001 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Open science | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Research integrity | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
Machine scores (provisional)
The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.
Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.
score_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from itClassification
machine, unvalidatedMachine predicted; a candidate call from one source (direct Gemma or distilled Codex), not a consensus.
How this classification was reached, model by model and score by score, is at the end of the page under "How this classification was reached".