The LAB-Net Soil Moisture Network: Application to Thermal Remote Sensing and Surface Energy Balance

Mattar, Cristián; Santamaría-Artigas, Andrés; Durán‐Alarcón, Claudio; Olivera-Guerra, Luis; Fuster, Rodrigo; Borvarán, Dager

doi:10.3390/data1010006

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“…Meteorological stations data were obtained from LAB-network [31], located across the valley over three crops, as was described in Mattar et al [31] and Olivera-Guerra et al [27]. Crop coefficients (kc) used are in concordance with those used by Olivera-Guerra et al [27] for olives and vineyards (Table 1), and the pomegranates kc values were adapted from Franck [32] and Otárola Aliaga [33], which estimated kc values to arid and semiarid conditions in Chile.…”

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Determining Actual Evapotranspiration Based on Machine Learning and Sinusoidal Approaches Applied to Thermal High-Resolution Remote Sensing Imagery in a Semi-Arid Ecosystem

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Remote Sensing

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Evapotranspiration (ET) is key to assess crop water balance and optimize water-use efficiency. To attain sustainability in cropping systems, especially in semi-arid ecosystems, it is necessary to improve methodologies of ET estimation. A method to predict ET is by using land surface temperature (LST) from remote sensing data and applying the Operational Simplified Surface Energy Balance Model (SSEBop). However, to date, LST information from Landsat-8 Thermal Infrared Sensor (TIRS) has a coarser resolution (100 m) and longer revisit time than Sentinel-2, which does not have a thermal infrared sensor, which compromises its use in ET models as SSEBop. Therefore, in the present study we set out to use Sentinel-2 data at a higher spatial-temporal resolution (10 m) to predict ET. Three models were trained using TIRS’ images as training data (100 m) and later used to predict LST at 10 m in the western section of the Copiapó Valley (Chile). The models were built on cubist (Cub) and random forest (RF) algorithms, and a sinusoidal model (Sin). The predicted LSTs were compared with three meteorological stations located in olives, vineyards, and pomegranate orchards. RMSE values for the prediction of LST at 10 m were 7.09 K, 3.91 K, and 3.4 K in Cub, RF, and Sin, respectively. ET estimation from LST in spatial-temporal relation showed that RF was the best overall performance (R2 = 0.710) when contrasted with Landsat, followed by the Sin model (R2 = 0.707). Nonetheless, the Sin model had the lowest RMSE (0.45 mm d−1) and showed the best performance at predicting orchards’ ET. In our discussion, we argue that a simplistic sinusoidal model built on NDVI presents advantages over RF and Cub, which are constrained to the spatial relation of predictors at different study areas. Our study shows how it is possible to downscale Landsat-8 TIRS’ images from 100 m to 10 m to predict ET.

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Determining Actual Evapotranspiration Based on Machine Learning and Sinusoidal Approaches Applied to Thermal High-Resolution Remote Sensing Imagery in a Semi-Arid Ecosystem

Rojas

Moletto‐Lobos²,

Corradini

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Remote Sensing

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“…A33 LAB-net LAB-net was created as the first soil moisture network in Chile to support remote sensing research on drought and water use conflicts (Mattar et al, 2016). Three stations measuring soil moisture, soil temperature, precipitation, and air temperature between 2014 until 2017 over various land cover types have been included in the ISMN.…”

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In 2009, the International Soil Moisture Network (ISMN) was initiated as a community effort, funded by the European Space Agency, to serve as a centralised data hosting facility for globally available in situ soil moisture measurements (Dorigo et al., 2011b, a). The ISMN brings together in situ soil moisture measurements collected and freely shared by a multitude of organisations, harmonizes them in terms of units and sampling rates, applies advanced quality control, and stores them in a Ground-based soil moisture measurements of land surface variables are indispensable in the process of developing, validating, and advancing spatially contiguous data sets derived from satellites or models (Loew et al., 2017;Gruber et al., 2020). Although the first systematic measurements of soil moisture started well before the satellite era in the former Soviet Union to support agricultural decision making (Robock et al., 2000), it was not until the early 2000s that soil moisture monitoring networks started being widely established as part of hydrological and meteorological observing capacities. Particularly, the launch of the Soil Moisture Ocean Salinity (SMOS) mission of the European Space Agency (ESA) in 2009 (Kerr et al., 2016), and the launch of the Soil Moisture Active Passive (SMAP) mission of the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) in 2015 (Entekhabi et al., 2010), boosted the establishment of new research networks (Colliander et al., 2017).While all networks are a valuable asset for assessing the skill of soil moisture products under various conditions and scales, their usage is hampered by the diversity of sensors, data formats, quality control, and accessibility mechanisms. The need of bringing together and harmonising available soil moisture data was recognised by the international soil moisture community and expedited by the Global Energy and Water cycle Exchanges (GEWEX) project of the World Climate Research Programme (WCRP) with support of the Commission on Earth Observation Satellites (CEOS), the Global Climate Observing System (GCOS), and the Group on Earth Observation (GEO). In the advent of the SMOS mission, ESA decided to provide the financial impetus to establish a global reference database of in situ soil moisture measurements for the purpose of satellite product development and validation. As a result, the International Soil Moisture Network (ISMN) went online in 2010 (Dorigo et al., 2011b, a).The primary objective of the ISMN is to collect in situ soil moisture data sets shared by various data organisations on a voluntary basis and make them available in a harmonized format through a centralised free and open web portal (ismn.earth).While 10 years after its launch the core objective of the ISMN remains valid, its functionality has expanded since then. This new functionality includes the integration of advanced quality control methods (Dorigo et al., 2013), the provision of additional metadata and ancillary variables (e.g., precipitation, soil and air temperature), ongoing automation, the ...

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“…Air temperature (T a ), Relative Humidity (RH) and Wind speed (u) measured at 2 m above the surface were obtained from 20 agrometeorological stations of the Chilean Agricultural Research Institute (INIA; available at: http://agromet.inia.cl/. Moreover, the automated weather station at Oromo Calibration Site (OCS) from LAB-Net [47] was used to validate surface temperature (T s ) and actual evapotranspiration (ET a ) estimates. Unlike the agrometeorological stations, this station also records radiative variables of the surface energy budget such as infrared temperature (TIR), Net Radiation (R n ) and soil heat flux (G).…”

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Performance of Satellite-Based Evapotranspiration Models in Temperate Pastures of Southern Chile

Moletto‐Lobos

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Barichivich

2020

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Farmers in the temperate zone of southern Chile have started to irrigate historically rainfed pastures during recent years to reduce dairy productivity losses against increasingly severe summer droughts. The lack of information on pasture water requirements (i.e., evapotranspiration), however, hampers the implementation of efficient irrigation programs. Here, we use in-situ observations to evaluate the skill of four remote sensing Surface Energy Balance (SEB) models and two satellite-based global evapotranspiration products (PML_V2 and GLEAM) to estimate actual evapotranspiration (ETa) of pastures in southern Chile during 2014–2017. Daily ETa measured at an evaluation site over the period ranges between 1.2 mm and 6.2 mm day−1 during the growing season (October–March), with an annual maximum of about 4.8 mm day−1 in January and a minimum 0.6 mm day−1 in June. Only the Simplified SEB (SEBS) model and its operational variant (SSEBop) and the PML_V2 global evapotranspiration product perform well, capturing 63–79% of the variance of in-situ evapotranspiration with an error between 0.75 mm day−1 and 1.1 mm day−1. The readily available PML_V2 product can be used as a convenient way to determine average water footprint of pastures and the two SEBs models can be implemented to monitor irrigation requirements in near-real time from field to regional scales. These results demonstrated a high potential of satellite observations for monitoring evapotranspiration and quantify the water footprint of pastures in southern Chile for a sustainable irrigation practice.

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The LAB-Net Soil Moisture Network: Application to Thermal Remote Sensing and Surface Energy Balance

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Determining Actual Evapotranspiration Based on Machine Learning and Sinusoidal Approaches Applied to Thermal High-Resolution Remote Sensing Imagery in a Semi-Arid Ecosystem

Determining Actual Evapotranspiration Based on Machine Learning and Sinusoidal Approaches Applied to Thermal High-Resolution Remote Sensing Imagery in a Semi-Arid Ecosystem

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Performance of Satellite-Based Evapotranspiration Models in Temperate Pastures of Southern Chile

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