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  • IN42B-05: Assessing Performance of Remote-Sensing Based Machine Learning Approaches for Soil Moisture Retrieval Across Agricultural Landscapes Using ISMN
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Author(s):
Veda Sunkara, Stanford University (First Author, Presenting Author)
Siddharth Sachdeva, Stanford University
David Lobell, Stanford University
Alexandra Konings, Stanford University


Soil moisture plays a crucial role in agriculture, particularly in regions that rely heavily on rainfall. Retrieving soil moisture from remote sensing at a high resolution is challenging, but necessary for estimating soil moisture within small fields in the absence of expensive instrumentation. While satellites like ESA's Sentinel-1 can be leveraged to estimate soil moisture from space, most existing methods have not been evaluated for agricultural applications, specifically their transferability to novel crop types, regions, or seasons, at a high resolution.


In this study, we leverage published machine learning models to predict soil moisture in agricultural areas from satellite data. We test how well these models perform when trained on one crop or season and then applied to another. This approach mimics real-world shifts that often happen in farming. We evaluate the diversity of training data needed for reliable results by comparing model performance across diverse agricultural conditions using the International Soil Moisture Network (ISMN). These findings can inform future field campaigns for developing agriculture-focused soil moisture datasets in new regions.




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