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Remote Soil Moisture Measurement from Drone-Borne Reflectance Spectroscopy: Applications to Hydroperiod Measurement in Desert Playas

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REMOTE SENSING
卷 13, 期 5, 页码 -

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MDPI
DOI: 10.3390/rs13051035

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soil moisture; Alvord desert; drone; reflectance spectroscopy; hydropattern; hyperspectral; SWIR; clays

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  1. National Science Foundation Office of Polar Programs [ANT-1847067]
  2. Colgate University Department of Geology Boyce Fund

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The newly developed CRWI soil moisture index can effectively determine soil moisture content through hyperspectral imaging, regardless of soil composition and grain size. Compared to other indices, CRWI shows a stronger correlation with surface soil moisture and can be utilized for monitoring soil moisture in desert environments.
The extent, timing, and magnitude of soil moisture in wetlands (the hydropattern) is a primary physical control on biogeochemical processes in desert environments. However, determining playa hydropatterns is challenged by the remoteness of desert basin sites and by the difficulty in determining soil moisture from remotely sensed data at fine spatial and temporal scales (hundreds of meters to kilometers, and hours to days). Therefore, we developed a new, reflectance-based soil moisture index (continuum-removed water index, or CRWI) that can be determined via hyperspectral imaging from drone-borne platforms. We compared its efficacy at remotely determining soil moisture content to existing hyperspectral and multispectral soil moisture indices. CRWI varies linearly with in situ soil moisture content (R-2 = 0.89, p < 0.001) and is comparatively insensitive to soil clay content (R-2 = 0.4, p = 0.01), soil salinity (R-2 = 0.82, p < 0.001), and soil grain size distribution (R-2 = 0.67, p < 0.001). CRWI is negatively correlated with clay content, indicating it is not sensitive to hydrated mineral absorption features. CRWI has stronger correlation with surface soil moisture than other hyperspectral and multispectral indices (R-2 = 0.69, p < 0.001 for WISOIL at this site). Drone-borne reflectance measurements allow monitoring of soil moisture conditions at the Alvord Desert playa test site over hectare-scale soil plots at measurement cadences of minutes to hours. CRWI measurements can be used to determine surface soil moisture at a range of desert sites to inform management decisions and to better reveal ecosystem processes in water-limited environments.

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