Downscaling analysis of SMAPL4 soil moisture products based on generative adversarial network models
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DOI:10.7606/j.issn.1000-7601.2024.03.26
Key Words: soil moisture  SMAP  random forest algorithm  generative adversarial networks  scale reduction analysis
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YANG Zhen School of Land and Resources Engineering, Kunming University of Science and Technology, Kunming, Yunnan 650093, China
Application Engineering Research Center of Spatial Information Surveying and Mapping Technology in Plateau and Mountainous Areas Set by Universities in Yunnan Province, Kunming, Yunnan 650093, China 
YANG Minglong School of Land and Resources Engineering, Kunming University of Science and Technology, Kunming, Yunnan 650093, China
Application Engineering Research Center of Spatial Information Surveying and Mapping Technology in Plateau and Mountainous Areas Set by Universities in Yunnan Province, Kunming, Yunnan 650093, China 
LI Guozhu Yunnan Haiju Geographic Information Technology Co., Ltd, Kunming, Yunnan 650000, China 
XIA Yonghua School of Land and Resources Engineering, Kunming University of Science and Technology, Kunming, Yunnan 650093, China
Application Engineering Research Center of Spatial Information Surveying and Mapping Technology in Plateau and Mountainous Areas Set by Universities in Yunnan Province, Kunming, Yunnan 650093, China 
YAN Zhengfei School of Land and Resources Engineering, Kunming University of Science and Technology, Kunming, Yunnan 650093, China
Application Engineering Research Center of Spatial Information Surveying and Mapping Technology in Plateau and Mountainous Areas Set by Universities in Yunnan Province, Kunming, Yunnan 650093, China 
LI Wantao School of Land and Resources Engineering, Kunming University of Science and Technology, Kunming, Yunnan 650093, China
Application Engineering Research Center of Spatial Information Surveying and Mapping Technology in Plateau and Mountainous Areas Set by Universities in Yunnan Province, Kunming, Yunnan 650093, China 
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Abstract:
      Soil moisture is an important link in the exchange of water and heat processes between the surface and the atmosphere, which is of great significance for agricultural production and optimization of planting structure. SMAPL4 under NASA satellite is a passive microwave remote sensing technology as a means of monitoring soil moisture, with the ability to penetrate the clouds, all\|weather monitoring. However, due to its low spatial resolution, it is difficult to meet the practical research needs at small scale or small area scale. In view of this, according to the special geographic location of the plateau irrigation area in Yaoan County, Yunnan Province, the correlation coefficients were quoted to derive the explanatory variables related to the spatial distribution of soil moisture in the study area, and along the random forest algorithm, the coupled 1 km MODIS surface products containing surface temperature and normalized vegetation index were used to establish a spatially descaled model of 1 km passive microwave soil moisture based on the linear regression of the RF global window, and then the four variables of surface temperature (LST), normalized vegetation index (NDVI), precipitation (Prec), and surface evapotranspiration (ET) were stacked to form a conditional generative adversarial network framework, and the neural network was trained using the mean squared error (RMSE) and the conditional generative adversarial loss function to establish the low\|resolution and high\|resolution mapping relationship, and then the results of the spatial distribution of soil moisture were obtained after the downscaling. In addition, the spatially averaged aggregated data from actual sampling and monitoring stations were compared and analyzed with the downscaled CGAN and RF results of the original SMAPL4 results. The results showed that the mean value of the correlation between LST, NDVI, Prec, ET and soil moisture was more than 0.44, which was correlated. The downscaling results of the conditional generation adversarial network (CGAN) had the best effect on the indicators R2 and Bias, with the mean values of 0.7 and 0.032, respectively.The downscaling results of RF had the best effect on the RMSE, with the mean value of 0.006. Compared with the original data of SMAPL4, the spatial distribution of the RF results was better than that of the original data of SMAPL4, and the RF results had the best effect on the RMSE raw data, the RF results had a smoother spatial distribution, but the polar value variability was larger. The CGAN results effectively characterized the spatial distribution of soil water content, and its data variability and polar value characterization ability was more prominent. After the training of RMSE and adversarial loss function, the value range of 0.2~0.28 was considered as the numerical distribution of soil moisture in the study area after downscaling.