Relative surface soil moisture for the Thames Valley, United Kingdom, October 2015 to September 2021

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https://doi.org/10.5285/b23d63d1-dcc5-4c49-a6b5-67154f3739b7

This dataset includes relative surface soil moisture across the Thames Valley, between October 2015 and September 2021, using backscatter radar data collected using the ESA Sentinel-1 Constellation.

Radar backscatter was normalised to 40 incidence angle, using a novel monthly normalisation parameterisation.

Publication date: 2022-09-21

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Format

NetCDF

Spatial information

Study area

Spatial representation type

Vector

Spatial reference system

OSGB 1936 / British National Grid

Temporal information

Temporal extent

2015-10-01 to 2021-09-30

Provenance & quality

Sentinel-1 IWGRDH data (VV Pol) went through the following processing steps:
• Extraction
• Orbital Correction
• Thermal and Border Noise Removal
• Calibration
• Speckle Filtering (Refined Lee)
• Terrain Correction
• Conversion to dB
• Subsetting
• Look Incidence Angle Normalisation
• Dynamic Masking (removing anomolus data)
• Spatial Averaging to 100m resolution
• rSSM Calculation
Full explanation of lineage and methodology can be found here: 10.1109/TGRS.2022.3175256

Licensing and constraints

This dataset is available under the terms of the Open Government Licence

Cite this dataset as:

Maslanka, W.M.; Morrison, K.; White, K. (2022). Relative surface soil moisture for the Thames Valley, United Kingdom, October 2015 to September 2021. NERC EDS Environmental Information Data Centre. https://doi.org/10.5285/b23d63d1-dcc5-4c49-a6b5-67154f3739b7

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This dataset is included in the following collections

Soil, hydrology, vegetation, land use and land management data for the Thames catchment, UK, collected by the ‘Land Management in Lowland Catchments for Integrated Flood Risk Reduction’ (LANDWISE) project

Supplemental information

W. Maslanka, K. Morrison, K. White, A. Verhoef and J. Clark, "Retrieval of Sub-Kilometric Relative Surface Soil Moisture With Sentinel-1 Utilizing Different Backscatter Normalization Factors," in IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing, vol. 60, pp. 1-13, 2022, Art no. 4410613

https://doi.org/10.1109/TGRS.2022.3175256

Monitoring Relative Surface Soil Moisture Using Sentinel-1 Across the River Thames Catchment, William Maslanka, Keith Morrison, Kevin White, Anne Verhoef and Joanna Clark.

https://doi.org/10.5194/egusphere-egu22-9798