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An inter-comparison of different PSO-optimized artificial intelligence algorithms for thermal-based soil moisture retrieval

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Soil moisture is one of the most important variables which affects different aspects of human life such as agriculture, flood, landslide, water resources, etc. There are different methods for modeling soil moisture such as conceptual, empirical and physically based models. Conceptual and physically based models are robust but they need several different data and information. However data driven models can be run using limited number of data. In this study, four data driven models i.e. MLP, ANFIS, SVR and GMDH were used to model soil moisture. Particle Swarm Optimization technique was used to optimize the structure of the four aforementioned models. Several different remote sensing-based indices were calculated using Landsat Imagery e.g. NDVI, TVDI, VTCI and TVX. An extensive field survey was conducted to collect soil moisture data in the region. A 70/30 ration was used to separate train and test data. 30 additional samples were used for a final validation of produced maps. Results showed a relatively poor performance of PSO-MLP model. The performance of PSO-ANFIS and PSO-SVR was moderate with R2 of 0.74 and 0.84 and RMSE of 3.4% and 3.1%, respectively. PSO-GMDH had a superior performance with R2 of 0.91 and RMSE of 2.4%. Therefore, PSO-GMDH can be suggested as a powerful modeling approach to produce soil moisture maps.

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  1. Department of Arid Lands Management, Faculty of Natural Resources, Yazd University, Yazd, 8915818411, Iran

    Negin Behnia & Mohammad Zare

  2. Department of Watershed Management Engineering, Faculty of Natural Resources, Tarbiat Modares University, Tehran, 4641776489, Iran

    Vahid Moosavi

  3. Department of Natural Resources, Isfahan University of Technology, Isfahan, 8415683111, Iran

    Seyed Jamaleddin Khajeddin

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Negin Behnia: Data curation; Investigation; Methodology; Software; Writing - original draft; Visualization

Mohammad Zare: Formal analysis; Data curation; Methodology

Vahid Moosavi: Conceptualization; Supervision; Validation; Writing - review & editing

Seyed Jamaleddin Khajeddin: Formal analysis; Data curation

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Behnia, N., Zare, M., Moosavi, V. et al. An inter-comparison of different PSO-optimized artificial intelligence algorithms for thermal-based soil moisture retrieval. Earth Sci Inform 15, 473–484 (2022). https://doi.org/10.1007/s12145-021-00747-7

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