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Performance of Global Soil Moisture Products in Crop Growing Region of Central India

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The study was carried out to evaluate the global soil moisture product of Advanced Microwave Scanning Radiometer-2 (AMSR-2), Advanced Microwave Scanning Radiometer–Earth Observing System (AMSR-E), Soil Moisture and Ocean Salinity (SMOS) and Tropical Rainfall Measuring Mission’s (TRMM) Microwave Imager (TMI) in central region of India for monsoon period of 2011 and 2013. The evaluation was done using 100, 75 in-situ soil moisture measurements of 2011, 2013 respectively. The in-situ measurements were spread across ~10,000 sq.km area which is roughly equal to 12 pixels of SMOS, AMSR-2 AMSR-E and TMI data. The result shows reasonable correlation of r 2 = 0.506, 0.467 between SMOS and in-situ soil moisture for 2011, 2013 respectively. TMI exhibits good correlation of r 2 = 0.55 in 2013 but failed to do the same in 2011. AMSR-2 soil moisture products shows moderate correlation r 2 = 0.32 in 2011 but poorly correlated in 2013.

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Acknowledgments

The ground truth collection was done under RISAT Utilization Project funded by Indian Space Research Organization (ISRO). The project team wants to thank Dr. V. K Dadhwal, Director, NRSC for his encouragements and support. We express our thanks to the Dr. Manab Chakraborthy, Project Director, RISAT-UP for his help throughout this project. The project team thank D. S Mohekar—NBSS, Nitin Tendulkar, CICR, Siva Prasad Reddy—JRF RRSC/NRSC, I Ramteke, S Verma- MRSAC, S R Potpite, J.P Suman, Arun Kumar Rajwar—SLUSI for their help in soil sample analysis, ground truth collection and process. We also thank Directors of National Bureau Soil Science / Land Use Planning, Nagpur, Central Institute Cotton Research (CICR), Nagpur, Maharashtra Remote Sensing Applications Centre (MRSAC) and Soil and Land Use Survey of India (SLUSI) for their support in throughout the project.

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  1. Regional Centre, National Remote Sensing Centre, Balanagar, Hyderabad, India, 500037

    Sitiraju Srinivasa Rao, Dinesh Kumar Sahadevan & Jaswanth Raj Sharma

  2. Regional Remote Sensing Centre-Central, Amravati Road, Nagpur, India, 440 010

    Milind R. Wadodkar, Subrata N. Das & Asok Kumar Joshi

  3. National Bureau of Soil Survey & Land Use Planning, Nagpur, India, 440 033

    M/ S. S. Nagaraju & Sudipta Chattaraj

  4. Soil and Land Use Survey of India, Nagpur, India, 440 0130

    William Joseph

  5. Maharashtra Remote Sensing Applications Centre, Nagpur, India, 440 011

    Prasanth Rajankar & Titu Sengupta

  6. Central Institute of Cotton Research, Nagpur, India, 440 010

    M. V. Venugopalan

  7. Department of Geo Enng, AU College of Engg, Visakhapatnam, India, 530 003

    Eadara Amminedu

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Rao, S.S., Sahadevan, D.K., Wadodkar, M.R. et al. Performance of Global Soil Moisture Products in Crop Growing Region of Central India. J Indian Soc Remote Sens 44, 277–285 (2016). https://doi.org/10.1007/s12524-015-0496-7

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