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2020 , Vol. 43 >Issue 6: 1567 - 1572

DOI: https://doi.org/10.12118/j.issn.1000-6060.2020.06.18

Estimation of snow depth based on reflectance and bright temperature in Xilin Gol League

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  • Xilinhot National Climatological Observatory , Xilinhot 026000, Inner Mongolia, China

Received date: 2019-11-13

  Revised date: 2020-11-12

  Online published: 2020-11-25

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Abstract

Snow is an important water resource in arid and semi-arid regions of northwest China, which is also one of the important factors that affect the global climate change. Snow depth is the main parameter of the water resources and its estimation using a remote sensing technique has a vital effect on the assessment of resources and disease of northern China. The reflectance and brightness temperature data were the main data for snow remote sensing. Taking the snow depth data of 2012—2015 for Xilin Gol League, Inner Mongolia, China as an example, The MODIS/Terra satellite reflectance data and FY-3B brightness temperature data for the estimation of snow depth are combined for the first time in this study. The estimation accuracy for partial least squares and machine learning (artificial neural network, support vector machine and random forest) are then compared. When only reflectivity data is used, best accuracy is achieved by the random forest algorithm (RMSE=3.65 cm), followed by the neural network and support vector machine. The stochastic forest algorithm still performs best (RMSE=3.12 cm) when only the brightness and temperature data are used. However, no obvious difference is found with the artificial neural network. Using the partial least squares method exhibits the worst performance among the methods used. For the four methods, the accuracy of estimating snow depth using brightness temperature data is higher than that using reflectivity data, which may be attributed to the fact that reflectivity data is easy to saturate. Comprehensive research shows that the snow depth estimation accuracy based on the combination of reflectance and brightness temperature was better than that with single data. The random forest algorithm obtained the best performance, which is able to meet the needs of practical application. However, the accuracy of the three machine learning algorithms is not much different, with RMSE of 2.93- 3.92 cm, which is far lower than that of the partial least squares method (RMSE=7.12 cm). Although partial least squares method can eliminate the collinearity of variables, its performance in snow depth estimation is poor, which may be attributed to its difficulty in adapting to complex snow scenes. Results of this paper have important significance for the study of water resources distribution and ecological environment assessment in northern China.

Key words： snow depth;  MODIS;  MWRI;  machine learning

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LI Hui-rong . Estimation of snow depth based on reflectance and bright temperature in Xilin Gol League[J]. Arid Land Geography, 2020 , 43(6) : 1567 -1572 . DOI: 10.12118/j.issn.1000-6060.2020.06.18

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