Inversion Model of Soil Salt Content in Different Depths Based on Radar Remote Sensing

Abstract:

With the aim to monitor the salinization of soil salt content timely and effectively, taking Shahaoqu District of Hetao Irrigation Area as study area, the Sentinel-1 image as a data source, synchronous acquisition different depths of soil salinity data, by combining the two groups of radar backscatter coefficient to build a variety of indices, by using gray correlation degree (GCD) index to exclude the index with strong collinearity, and partial least squares regression (PLSR), quantile regression (QR) and support vector machine regression (SVM) were used to construct soil salinity inversion models at different depths of 0~10cm and 10~20cm. The results showed that among the three regression methods the accuracy of SVM regression model was the highest, the model modeling set determination coefficient R2c and the validation set determination coefficient R2p were all above 04, the modeling set root mean square error RMSEc and the validation set root mean square error RMSEp were all less than 03%, QR regression model was the next, PISR regression model was the worst. At each inversion depth, the inversion accuracy of 0~10cm was higher than that of 10~20cm, among which the SVM inversion model was better than other models at 0~10cm depth, R2c and R2p were 0.568 and 0.686, respectively, and RMSEc and RMSEp were 0.201% and 0.151%, respectively. The results could provide a reference for monitoring soil salinization in bare soil stage by radar remote sensing.