Open source toolbox and web application for soil moisture validation

Author

Paulik, Christoph ; Steiner, Caroline ; Hahn, Sebastian ; Melzer, Thomas ; Gruber, Alexander ; Wagner, Wolfgang

Author_Institution

Dept. of Geodesy & Geoinf., Res. Group on Remote Sensing, Vienna Univ. of Technol., Vienna, Austria

fYear

2014

fDate

13-18 July 2014

Firstpage

3331

Lastpage

3333

Abstract

Validation of soil moisture observations from remote sensing platforms is quickly becoming a routine task as operational soil moisture products continue to be developed. Despite this, there are no agreed upon validation procedures or open source implementations of common tasks and methods. This makes the reproduction of scientific results difficult, especially since it is not yet common that software is include in publications. The presented work aims to improve this situation by showing an open source toolbox that makes it easy to perform common validation tasks. This toolbox is also used as the backend of a web application that aims to simplify the comparison of different validation methods.

Keywords

geophysics computing; public domain software; remote sensing; soil; common method open source implementation; common task open source implementation; common validation task; open source toolbox; operational soil moisture product; remote sensing platform; scientific result reproduction; soil moisture observation validation; validation method comparison simplification; validation procedure; web application backend; Measurement; Remote sensing; Satellites; Soil moisture; Standards; Time series analysis; Soil moisture; open source; python; validation;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Geoscience and Remote Sensing Symposium (IGARSS), 2014 IEEE International

Conference_Location

Quebec City, QC

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/IGARSS.2014.6947193

Filename

6947193