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To meet this objective, two machine learning approaches, Random Forest (RF), Support Vector Machine (SVM), as well as a statistical Ordinary Least Squares (OLS) model were established, with the auxiliary data including the 16-day composite MODIS NDVI (MOD13Q1) and Surface Temperature (ST). The entire data were divided into two parts corresponding to ascending (6:00 p.m. local time) and descending (6:00 a.m. local time) orbits of SMAP overpasses. Thus, the three models were trained using the descending data acquired during the five years (2015 to 2019), and validated using the ascending product of the same period. Consequently, three different temporal variations of the soil moisture were obtained based on the three models. To evaluate their accuracies, the retrieved soil moisture was compared against the SMAP level-2 soil moisture product, as well as to in-situ ground station data. The comparative results show that the soil moisture obtained using the OLS, RF and SVM algorithms are highly correlated to the SMAP level-2 product, with high coefficients of determination (R2OLS = 0.981, R2SVM = 0.943, R2RF = 0.983) and low RMSE (RMSEOLS = 0.016 cm3\/cm3, RMSESVM = 0.047 cm3\/cm3, RMSERF = 0.016 cm3\/cm3). Meanwhile, the estimated soil moistures agree with in-situ station data across different years (R2OLS = 0.376~0.85, R2SVM = 0.376~0.814, R2RF = 0.39~0.854; RMSEOLS = 0.049~0.105 cm3\/cm3, RMSESVM = 0.073~0.1 cm3\/cm3, RMSERF = 0.047~0.102 cm3\/cm3), but an overestimation issue is observed for high vegetation conditions. The RF algorithm outperformed the SVM and OLS, in terms of the agreement with the ground measurements. This study suggests an alternative soil moisture retrieval scheme, in complementary to the SMAP baseline algorithm, for a fast soil moisture retrieval.<\/jats:p>","DOI":"10.3390\/rs12193173","type":"journal-article","created":{"date-parts":[[2020,9,28]],"date-time":"2020-09-28T08:02:58Z","timestamp":1601280178000},"page":"3173","update-policy":"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.3390\/mdpi_crossmark_policy","source":"Crossref","is-referenced-by-count":31,"title":["Soil Moisture Retrievals by Combining Passive Microwave and Optical Data"],"prefix":"10.3390","volume":"12","author":[{"given":"Cheng","family":"Tong","sequence":"first","affiliation":[{"name":"College of Environmental and Resource Sciences, Zhejiang University, Hangzhou 310029, China"}],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"given":"Hongquan","family":"Wang","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"College of Environmental and Resource Sciences, Zhejiang University, Hangzhou 310029, China"}],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"given":"Ramata","family":"Magagi","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Centre d\u2019Applications et de Recherche en T\u00e9l\u00e9d\u00e9tection, Universit\u00e9 de Sherbrooke, Sherbrooke, QC J1K 2R1, Canada"}],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"ORCID":"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0000-0001-6992-5093","authenticated-orcid":false,"given":"Kalifa","family":"Go\u00efta","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Centre d\u2019Applications et de Recherche en T\u00e9l\u00e9d\u00e9tection, Universit\u00e9 de Sherbrooke, Sherbrooke, QC J1K 2R1, Canada"}],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"given":"Luyao","family":"Zhu","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"College of Environmental and Resource Sciences, Zhejiang University, Hangzhou 310029, China"}],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"given":"Mengying","family":"Yang","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"College of Environmental and Resource Sciences, Zhejiang University, Hangzhou 310029, China"}],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"given":"Jinsong","family":"Deng","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"College of Environmental and Resource Sciences, Zhejiang University, Hangzhou 310029, China"}],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]}],"member":"1968","published-online":{"date-parts":[[2020,9,28]]},"reference":[{"key":"ref_1","doi-asserted-by":"crossref","first-page":"125","DOI":"10.1016\/j.earscirev.2010.02.004","article-title":"Investigating soil moisture-climate interactions in a changing climate: A review","volume":"99","author":"Seneviratne","year":"2010","journal-title":"Earth-Sci. 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