Abstract
The accuracy of soil moisture estimated from Synthetic Aperture Radar backscatter data at high resolution is limited by speckle. Common practice to mitigate speckle is to multilook the data prior to retrieving soil moisture. While multilooking indeed reduces speckle, it also decreases the spatial resolution and removes possibly useful high resolution information from the data. We therefore hypothesised that using higher resolution backscatter data for soil moisture retrieval would lead to higher retrieval accuracies. A high-resolution field study combined with a synthetic experiment showed that calculating soil moisture prior to multilooking to the final target resolution (calculate-then-average, CtA) has substantial advantages over the average-then-calculate (AtC) approach. Currently, the AtC strategy is most often applied in soil moisture studies, mainly due to its computational advantage compared to the CtA approach. We show that by making use of a higher source resolution backscatter data than the target resolution, we could improve the soil moisture retrieval over an agricultural field.
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