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This study estimates soil moisture content (SMC) using Sentinel-1A/B C-band synthetic aperture radar (SAR) images and an artificial neural network (ANN) over a 40 × 50-km2 area located in the Geum River basin in South Korea. The hydrological components characterized by the antecedent precipitation index (API) and dry days were used as input data as well as SAR (cross-polarization (VH) and copolarization (VV) backscattering coefficients and local incidence angle), topographic (elevation and slope), and soil (percentage of clay and sand)-related data in the ANN simulations. A simple logarithmic transformation was useful in establishing the linear relationship between the observed SMC and the API. In the dry period without rainfall, API did not decrease below 0, thus the Dry days were applied to express the decreasing SMC. The optimal ANN architecture was constructed in terms of the number of hidden layers, hidden neurons, and activation function. The comparison of the estimated SMC with the observed SMC showed that the Pearson’s correlation coefficient (R) and the root mean square error (RMSE) were 0.85 and 4.59%, respectively.

Soil Moisture Content Estimation Based on Sentinel-1 SAR Imagery Using an Artificial Neural Network and Hydrological Components