luca pasolli 1,2 claudia notarnicola 2 lorenzo bruzzone 1 giacomo bertoldi 3 georg niedriest 3
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Spatial and Temporal Mapping of Soil Moisture Content with Polarimetric RADARSAT2 SAR Imagery in the Alpine Area. Luca Pasolli 1,2 Claudia Notarnicola 2 Lorenzo Bruzzone 1 Giacomo Bertoldi 3 Georg Niedriest 3 Ulrike Tappeiner 3 Marc Zebisch 2 Fabio Del Frate 4 - PowerPoint PPT PresentationTRANSCRIPT
1Remote Sensing LaboratoryDept. of Information Engineering and Computer Science
University of TrentoVia Sommarive, 14, I-38123 Povo, Trento, Italy
2Institute for Applied Remote Sensing3Institute for Alpine Environment
Eurac ResearchViale Druso, 1, I-39100 Bolzano, Italy
4Department of Computer, System and Production EngineeringTor Vergata University
Via del Politecnico, 1, I-00133 Rome Italy
Luca Pasolli1,2
Claudia Notarnicola2
Lorenzo Bruzzone1
Giacomo Bertoldi3
Georg Niedriest3
Ulrike Tappeiner3
Marc Zebisch2
Fabio Del Frate4
Gaia Vaglio Laurin4
Spatial and Temporal Mapping of Soil Moisture Content with Polarimetric RADARSAT2 SAR Imagery
in the Alpine Area
E-mail: [email protected]@eurac.edu
Web: http://rslab.disi.unitn.ithttp://www.eurac.edu
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Introduction
Aim of the Work
Estimation System Description
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Analysis of Results
Study Area and Dataset
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Outline
Conclusion6
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Introduction
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SOFIA: SOil and Forest Information retrieval by using RADARSAT2 images• ESA AO-SOAR 6820 • Supported in the framework of the IRKIS project (Civil Protection Department, Province of
Bolzano)
Main Innovative Aspects:• Fully-polarimetric RADARSAT2 satellite SAR data• Mountain landscape (Alpine area)• Advanced estimation methods
Objectives:• Estimation of soil moisture content on bare and vegetated areas (alpine meadows and
pastures)• Estimation of vegetation biomass (forest)• Investigation on the influence of soil and vegetation parameters in connection to natural
hazard in Alpine regions.
• Estimation of soil moisture content on bare and vegetated areas (alpine meadows and pastures)
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Introduction
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Soil moisture estimation supports various application domains:• drought monitoring • flood and landslide prediction • climate change analysis
Challenges: • non-linearity of the relationship between microwave signals and soil moisture• sensitivity of microwave signals on different target properties (moisture content,
roughness, vegetation, land use)• influence of topography on the microwave signal acquired by the sensor
In a previous study (Pasolli et al., 2010) RADARSAT2 SAR images have shown to be promising for the retrieval of soil moisture in Alpine areas:
• by integrating the information coming from ancillary data• by exploiting an advanced retrieval algorithm based on the Support Vector Regression (SVR)
method
IEEE International Geoscience and Remote Sensing Symposium IGARSS 2011 Vancouver, Canada – 24-29 July, 2011
L. Pasolli, C. Notarnicola, L. Bruzzone, G. Bertoldi, S. Della Chiesa, V. Hell, G. Niedrist, U. Tappeiner, M. Zebisch, F. Del Frate, G.V. Laurin, “Estimagion of Soil Moisture in an Alpine catchment with RADARSAT2 images”, Applied and Environmental Soil Science, in press
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To Further Investigate the Retrieval of Soil Moisture
from RADARSAT2 SAR Images in Alpine Areas
1.By exploiting the fully-polarimetric capability of RADARSAT2 in combination with standard and advanced feature extraction/selection methods
2.By extending the analysis in time and space with the available images
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Aim of the Work
Study Area
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Well known and monitored area
Well representative in terms of• Topography• Land use • Soil moisture content conditions
Mazia Valley, Alto Adige, Italy
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Dataset
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Meadow Pasture
June July June July
Min Diel 6.7 3.8 6.4 3.2
Max Diel 21.8 27 16.2 25.63
Average Diel 16.5 14.2 11.2 7.7
2.Field measurements:• 77 soil dielectric constant measurements on
meadows (blue) and pasture (red) acquired contemporary to satellite overpasses (3rd June and 21st July) RADARSAT2, 21° July 2010 (R=HH, G=HV, B=VV)
1.Satellite SAR images:• 4 RADATSAT2 quad-pol standard mode
images (3rd June, 21st July, 14th August, 5th October 2010)
• DEM geocoded, filtered (Frost 7x7)• Final pixel size 20 m
3.Ancillary data:
• NDVI map extracted from MODIS Terra images (pixel size 250 m)
• Land use map (meadows, pasture);
• DEM (pixel size 2.5 m)
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Estimation System
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Data Pre-processing
Feature Extraction & Selection
Retrieval Algorithm
Polarimetric RADARSAT2 SAR image
Estimated Soil Moisture Content Map
Ancillary Data
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Estimation System: Retrieval Algorithm
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Data Pre-processing
Feature Extraction & Selection
Retrieval Algorithm
Polarimetric RADARSAT2 SAR image
Estimated Soil Moisture Content Map
Ancillary Data
Aim: to define the mapping between the input features and the target biophysical variable• Support Vector Regression (SVR) technique trained on
Field Reference Samples• Multi-objective Model Selection Approach
Ground TruthFeatures from
Remotely Sensed Image
SVR Learning
SVREstimation
PerformanceEvaluation
Model Selection
Reference Samples
Training SetValidation Set
SVR Parameters Config.
Estimation Perform. (MSE, R2)
K-Fold Cross Validation
Multi-Objective Model Selection
Features from Ancillary Data
Training Phase
Sub-Sample Generator
Estimation Operational PhaseInput Features
(Image + Ancillary)SVR
EstimatorOutput
SMC Value
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Estimation System: Features Extraction and Selection
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Data Pre-processing
Feature Extraction & Selection
Retrieval Algorithm
Polarimetric RADARSAT2 SAR image
Estimated Soil Moisture Content Map
Ancillary Data
Aim: to extract and select from the remotely sensed data the most relevant information for the estimation problem considered
Features Extraction• Standard Intensity&Phase SAR processing
• Polarimetric backscattering coefficients• Polarimetric Combinations: Span (HH+HV+2HV), Polarization
Ratio (HH/VV) and Linear Depolarization Ratio (HV/VV)• Polarimetric phase difference (PPD) and interferometric
coherence
• Polarimetric Decompositions• H/A/α decomposition
• General purpose feature extraction techniques• Independent Component Analysis (ICA)
Features Selection• Sequential Forward Selection (SFS) strategy with
performance evaluation on a subset of reference samples
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Experiment 1: Assessment of the Estimation System with the proposed Feature Extraction & Selection strategies
• 60 reference samples for training/tuning the estimation system according to a 5-fold cross validation procedure
• Retrieval Algorithm Settings:• SVR with Gaussian RBF kernel function• Hyper-parameters ranges: 10-3 < γ < 103 , 10-3< C < 103 , 10-3 < ε < 10• Multi-objectives model selection according to RMSE and R2 quality metrics
• Performance assessment on 17 independent test reference samples according to:• Root Mean Squared Error (RMSE)• Determination coefficient (R2)• Slope and Intercept of the linear tendency line between estimated and measured target values
Experimental Setup
Experiment 2: Assessment of Spatially and Temporally Distributed Soil Moisture Estimates in the Alpine Area
• Exploitiation of the estimation system configuration identified in Experiment 1• Generation of soil moisture content maps associated with RADARSAT 2 SAR images time
series acquired during summer 2010• Qualitative and quantitative assessment with prior knowledge on the area and field station
measurements
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Results: Experiment 1
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Selected Features RMSE R2 Slope Intercept
Reference
HH 2.79 0.79 0.77 2.13
HH HV/VV features ICA1 ICA4 features α A features
HH feature
Intensity & Phase Features
HH HV/VV 2.55 0.82 0.8 2.37
ICA Features
ICA1 ICA4 2.66 0.81 0.86 1.53
Cloude Decomposition Features
α A 3.1 0.73 0.76 3.09
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Results: Experiment 2
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Estimated Soil Moisture Content Map, June 2010
Estimated dielectric constant Map, October 2010
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Results: Experiment 2
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Estimated dielectric constant Map, August 2010
Estimated dielectric constant map, July 2010
Estimated Dielectric constant Map, June 2010
Conclusion
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The potential of fully-polarimetric RADARSAT 2 SAR images in combination with an advanced retrieval algorithm has been investigated for the mapping in space and time of soil moisture in the Alpine area
1.Polarimetric features are effective for improving the retrieval of soil moisture in the challenging Alpine environment
• Generally, they allow one to reduce the ambiguity in the data and increase the accuracy of the estimation
• The HH HV/VV configuration has shown to be the most suitable in this specific operative conditions
2.The achieved results suggest the potential of the proposed estimation system in combination with RADARSAT 2 SAR data for the retrieval of soil moisture in Alpine areas
• Good capability to reproduce the spatial patterns of the desired target parameter• Good agreement with the measured temporal trends of soil moisture
Future work• Investigation of the proposed estimation system in combination with higher geometrical resolution
polarimetric SAR data• Integration of data from different sensors (e.g., L-Band SAR images)
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