A three-dimensional gap filling method for large geophysical datasets: Application to global satellite soil moisture observations

G. Wang, D. Garcia, Y. Liu, R.A.M. de Jeu, A.J. Dolman

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Abstract

The presence of data gaps is always a concern in geophysical records, creating not only difficulty in interpretation but, more importantly, also a large source of uncertainty in data analysis. Filling the data gaps is a necessity for use in statistical modeling. There are numerous approaches for this purpose. However, particularly challenging are the increasing number of very large spatio-temporal datasets such as those from Earth observations satellites. Here we introduce an efficient three-dimensional method based on discrete cosine transforms, which explicitly utilizes information from both time and space to predict the missing values. To analyze its performance, the method was applied to a global soil moisture product derived from satellite images. We also executed a validation by introducing synthetic gaps. It is shown this method is capable of filling data gaps in the global soil moisture dataset with very high accuracy. © 2011 Elsevier Ltd.
Original languageEnglish
Pages (from-to)139-142
JournalEnvironmental Modelling & Software
Volume30
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 2012

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