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@ARTICLE{Jakobi:875354,
author = {Jakobi, Jannis and Huisman, Johan A. and Schrön, Martin
and Fiedler, Justus and Brogi, Cosimo and Vereecken, Harry
and Bogena, Heye R.},
title = {{E}rror {E}stimation for {S}oil {M}oisture {M}easurements
{W}ith {C}osmic {R}ay {N}eutron {S}ensing and {I}mplications
for {R}over {S}urveys},
journal = {Frontiers in water},
volume = {2},
issn = {2624-9375},
address = {Lausanne},
publisher = {Frontiers Media},
reportid = {FZJ-2020-01972},
pages = {10},
year = {2020},
abstract = {Cosmic ray neutron (CRN) sensing allows for non-invasive
soil moisture measurements at the field scale and relies on
the inverse correlation between aboveground measured
epithermal neutron intensity (1eV – 100 keV) and
environmental water content. The measurement uncertainty
follows Poisson statistics and thus increases with
decreasing neutron intensity, which corresponds to
increasing soil moisture. In order to reduce measurement
uncertainty, the neutron count rate is usually aggregated
over 12 or 24 h time windows for stationary CRN probes. To
obtain accurate soil moisture estimates with mobile CRN
rover applications, the aggregation of neutron measurements
is also necessary and should consider soil wetness and
driving speed. To date, the optimization of spatial
aggregation of mobile CRN observations in order to balance
measurement accuracy and spatial resolution of soil moisture
patterns has not been investigated in detail. In this work,
we present and apply an easy-to-use method based on Gaussian
error propagation theory for uncertainty quantification of
soil moisture measurements obtained with CRN sensing. We
used a 3rd order Taylor expansion for estimating the soil
moisture uncertainty from uncertainty in neutron counts and
compared the results to a Monte Carlo approach with
excellent agreement. Furthermore, we applied our method with
selected aggregation times to investigate how CRN rover
survey design affects soil moisture estimation uncertainty.
We anticipate that the new approach can be used to improve
the strategic planning and evaluation of CRN rover surveys
based on uncertainty requirements.},
cin = {IBG-3},
ddc = {333.7},
cid = {I:(DE-Juel1)IBG-3-20101118},
pnm = {255 - Terrestrial Systems: From Observation to Prediction
(POF3-255) / DFG project 357874777 - FOR 2694: Large-Scale
and High-Resolution Mapping of Soil Moisture on Field and
Catchment Scales - Boosted by Cosmic-Ray Neutrons},
pid = {G:(DE-HGF)POF3-255 / G:(GEPRIS)357874777},
typ = {PUB:(DE-HGF)16},
UT = {WOS:000660303300001},
doi = {10.3389/frwa.2020.00010},
url = {https://juser.fz-juelich.de/record/875354},
}