Inversion Study of Simulated and Physical Soil Moisture Profiles using Multifrequency Soop-Sources

The potentiality of Signals of Opportunity (SoOp) over land can be investigated by advanced forward and inverse modeling and simulation tools to provide viable measurements for Earth science data products over land. This research investigates various inversion techniques that can leverage SoOp sources for land-based Earth science measurements by applying them to simulated soil moisture profiles over bare- and vegetated- soils. Forward modeling is accomplished using Mississippi State University’s Signals of Opportunity Coherent Bistatic Scattering Model (SCoBi), a new, open-source electromagnetic scattering model that can determine coherent received signals at a receiving antenna through application of Maxwell’s equations at discrete scattering soil layer boundaries in conjunction with the distorted Born approximation to describe vegetation propagation and scattering. The results of the forward model are used in various inverse methods to investigate the potentiality of using multiple SoOp sources for Soil Moisture Profile (SMP) retrieval. Multiple SMPs are analyzed by SCoBi to determine the sensitivity of soil moisture variation to SoOp transmitter characteristics such as polarization and elevation angle. Simultaneously, SoOp measurements conducted at Purdue University’s Agronomy Center for Research and Education (ACRE) are used to determine the impact that changes in both physical SMPs and vegetation canopies have on the scattered SoOp. The characteristics of the scattering surfaces, vegetation, and SMPs at the ACRE facility are modeled within SCoBi to observe patterns and relationships captured in reflectivity measurements that are caused by vegetation growth periods as well as rain and drought effects manifested by changing SMPs.

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