Hydrological Evaluation of Satellite Soil Moisture Data in Two Basins of Different Climate and Vegetation Density Conditions

Figure 7

The calibration and validation results using temperature-based discrimination approach. For PB the performance of SMOS derived SMD (a) and AMSR-E derived SMD (b) are presented. For FBB the performance of SMOS derived SMD (c) and AMSR-E derived SMD (d) is shown. It is important to note that, for the calibration, the calculated NSE and RMSE are between the XAJ SMD1 and the satellites’ derived SMD during the calibration period; therefore all the RMSEs shown here are in the unit of meter.

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