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@ARTICLE{Badou:857212,
author = {Badou, D. F. and Diekkrüger, B. and Montzka, Carsten},
title = {{V}alidation of satellite soil moisture in the absence of
in situ soil moisture: the case of the {T}ropical {Y}ankin
{B}asin},
journal = {South African journal of geomatics},
volume = {7},
number = {3},
issn = {2225-8531},
address = {Mombray},
publisher = {Consas Conference},
reportid = {FZJ-2018-06446},
pages = {243-256},
year = {2018},
abstract = {Soil moisture is known to be important in hydrology,
agronomy, flood and drought forecasting. Acquisition of in
situ soil moisture data is time consuming, costly, and does
not cover the scale required for basin analysis. The
consideration of remotely-sensed soil moisture is therefore
promising. However, considering the limitations of satellite
data, there is a need to check their validity prior to their
utilization for impact studies. This, in turn, poses a
problem in the absence of in situ soil moisture. The present
study suggests a methodology for testing the validity of
remotely-sensed soil moisture without in situ soil moisture.
Hydrological models with a detailed soil moisture routine
are calibrated and validated with measured stream flows. The
most behavioural solutions of modelled soil moistures are
averaged, and used as proxy measurements. This methodology
was applied to the Yankin Basin (8,171 km2), a tributary of
the Niger River Basin. The soil moistures of three
hydrological models (UHP-HRU, SWAT and WaSiM) used as proxy
were compared with the daily ESA-CCI soil moisture for a
four year period (2005-2008). The coefficient of
determination (R2), bias and visual inspection were used as
quality criteria. A rather small bias ranging from
-0.01cm3/cm3 (SWAT $\&$ UHP-HRU) to -0.04cm3/cm3 (WaSiM
$\&UHP-HRU)$ was determined as well as good R2 varying
between 0.71 (SWAT $\&$ UHP-HRU) and 0.81 (WaSiM $\&$ SWAT
$\&$ UHP-HRU). The ESA-CCI soil moisture was therefore
judged as reliable for the study area. More important, this
research shows that averaging soil moistures from different
hydrological models provides valuable proxy measurements for
testing the reliability of satellite soil moistures.},
cin = {IBG-3},
ddc = {550},
cid = {I:(DE-Juel1)IBG-3-20101118},
pnm = {255 - Terrestrial Systems: From Observation to Prediction
(POF3-255)},
pid = {G:(DE-HGF)POF3-255},
typ = {PUB:(DE-HGF)16},
UT = {WOS:000449010200003},
doi = {10.4314/sajg.v7i3.3},
url = {https://juser.fz-juelich.de/record/857212},
}