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IEEE GEOSCIENCE AND REMOTE SENSING LETTERS
卷 9, 期 2, 页码 262-266出版社
IEEE-INST ELECTRICAL ELECTRONICS ENGINEERS INC
DOI: 10.1109/LGRS.2011.2165932
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Microwave radiometry; soil moisture; Soil Moisture and Ocean Salinity (SMOS); soil salinity
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资金
- Australian Research Council [DP0879212]
- Australian Research Council [DP0879212] Funding Source: Australian Research Council
The recently launched Soil Moisture and Ocean Salinity (SMOS) satellite is providing soil moisture observations at continental scales by measuring L-band microwave radiation emitted from the land surface. While its retrieval algorithms will correct for factors such as vegetation and surface roughness, it will not correct for soil salinity. This letter tests the assumption that soil salinity will have a negligible impact on L-band brightness temperature (T-b) at SMOS scales using field data; airborne T-b observations were collected in a saline groundwater discharge area near Nilpinna Station, South Australia. At the 500-m scale, the airborne observations of T-b could not be reproduced using the baseline algorithm of the SMOS Level 2 retrieval scheme, without accounting for soil salinity in the model. The analysis in this letter shows that soil moisture retrieval errors of at least 0.04 m(3)m(-3) (i.e., the entire SMOS error budget) will occur due to salinity alone in SMOS footprints with saline coverage as low as 25% (possibly even much less). Consequently, fractional salinity coverage cannot be considered a negligible factor by microwave soil moisture satellite missions.
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