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MDPI, Remote Sensing, 2(15), p. 366, 2023

DOI: 10.3390/rs15020366

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Real-Time Forecast of SMAP L3 Soil Moisture Using Spatial–Temporal Deep Learning Model with Data Integration

Journal article published in 2023 by Ye Zhang ORCID, Feini Huang, Lu Li, Qinglian Li ORCID, Yongkun Zhang, Wei Shangguan ORCID
This paper is made freely available by the publisher.
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Abstract

Soil moisture (SM) has significant impacts on the Earth’s energy and water cycle system. Remote sensing, such as the Soil Moisture Active Passive (SMAP) mission, has delivered valuable estimations of global surface soil moisture. However, it has a 2~3 days revisit time leading to gaps between SMAP areas. To achieve accurate and comprehensive real-time forecast of SM, we propose a spatial–temporal deep learning model based on the Convolutional Gated Recursive Units with Data Integration (DI_ConvGRU) to capture the spatial and temporal variation in SM simultaneously by modeling the influence of adjacent SM values in space and time. Experiments show that the DI_ConvGRU outperforms the ConvGRU with Linear Interpolation (interp_ConvGRU) and the Long Short-Term Memory with Data Integration (DI_LSTM). The best performance (Bias = 0.0132 m3/m3, ubRMSE = 0.022 m3/m3, R = 0.977) has been achieved through the use of spatial–temporal deep learning model and Data Integration term. In comparison with interp_ConvGRU and DI_LSTM, DI_ConvGRU has improved the model performance in 74.88% and 68.99% of the regions according to RMSE, respectively. The predictability of SM depends highly on SM memory characteristics. DI_ConvGRU can provide accurate spatial–temporal forecast for SM with missing data, making them potentially useful for applications such as filling observational gaps in satellite data.