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Extracting Agronomic Information from SMOS Vegetation Optical Depth in the US Corn Belt Using a Nonlinear Hierarchical Model
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Journal Article
Extracting Agronomic Information from SMOS Vegetation Optical Depth in the US Corn Belt Using a Nonlinear Hierarchical Model
2020
Overview
Remote sensing observations that vary in response to plant growth and senescence can be used to monitor crop development within and across growing seasons. Identifying when crops reach specific growth stages can improve harvest yield prediction and quantify climate change. Using the Level 2 vegetation optical depth (VOD) product from the European Space Agency’s Soil Moisture and Ocean Salinity (SMOS) satellite, we retrospectively estimate the timing of a key crop development stage in the United States Corn Belt. We employ nonlinear curves nested within a hierarchical modeling framework to extract the timing of the third reproductive development stage of corn (R3) as well as other new agronomic signals from SMOS VOD. We compare our estimates of the timing of R3 to United States Department of Agriculture (USDA) survey data for the years 2011, 2012, and 2013. We find that 87%, 70%, and 37%, respectively, of our model estimates of R3 timing agree with USDA district-level observations. We postulate that since the satellite estimates can be directly linked to a physiological state (the maximum amount of plant water, or water contained within plant tissue per ground area) it is more accurate than the USDA data which is based upon visual observations from roadways. Consequently, SMOS VOD could be used to replace, at a finer resolution than the district-level USDA reports, the R3 data that has not been reported by the USDA since 2013. We hypothesize the other model parameters contain new information about soil and crop management and crop productivity that are not routinely collected by any federal or state agency in the Corn Belt.
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