Temperature Vegetation Dryness Index-Based Soil Moisture Retrieval Algorithm Developed for Geo-KOMPSAT-2A
Open Access
- 29 July 2021
- journal article
- research article
- Published by MDPI AG in Remote Sensing
- Vol. 13 (15), 2990
- https://doi.org/10.3390/rs13152990
Abstract
The Korea Meteorological Administration (KMA) has developed many product algorithms including that for soil moisture (SM) retrieval for the geostationary satellite Geo-Kompsat-2A (GK-2A) launched in December 2018. This was developed through a five-year research project owing to the significance of SM information for hydrological and meteorological applications. However, GK-2A’s visible and infrared sensors lack direct SM sensitivity. Therefore, in this study, we developed an SM algorithm based on the conversion relationships between SM and the temperature vegetation dryness index (TVDI) estimated for various land types in the full disk area using two of GK-2A’s level 2 products, land surface temperature (LST) and normalized difference vegetation index (NDVI), and the Global Land Data Assimilation System (GLDAS) SM data for calibration. Methodologically, various coefficients were obtained between TVDI and SM and used to estimate the GK-2A-based SM. The GK-2A SM algorithm was validated with GLDAS SM data during different periods. Our GK-2A SM product showed seasonal and spatial agreement with GLDAS SM data, indicating a dry-wet pattern variation. Quantitatively, the GK-2A SM showed annual validation results with a correlation coefficient (CC) >0.75, bias TVDI-based SMs often occurred in dry Australian regions during dry seasons due to the high LST sensitivity of GK-2A TVDI. We determined that relationships between TVDI and SM had positive or negative slopes depending on land cover types, which differs from the traditional negative slope observed between TVDI and SM. The KMA is currently operating this GK-2A SM algorithm.This publication has 63 references indexed in Scilit:
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