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Therefore, this study selected the Qinghai\u2013Tibet Plateau (QTP) of China as research region, and explored the feasibility of using Artificial Neural Network (ANN) to reconstruct soil moisture product based on AMSR-2\/AMSR-E brightness temperature and SMAP satellite data by introducing auxiliary variables, specifically considering the sensitivity of different combination of input variables, number of neurons in hidden layer, sample ratio, and precipitation threshold in model building. The results showed that the ANN model had the highest accuracy when all variables were used as inputs, it had a network containing 12 neurons in a hidden layer, it had a sample ratio 80%-10%-10% (training-validation-testing), and had a precipitation threshold of 8.75 mm, respectively. Furthermore, validation of the reconstructed soil moisture product (named ANN-SM) in other period were conducted by comparing with SMAP (April 2019 to July 2021) for all grid cells and in situ soil moisture sites (August 2010 to March 2015) of QTP, which achieved an ideal accuracy. In general, the proposed method is capable of rebuilding soil moisture products by adopting different satellite data and our soil moisture product is promising for serving the studies of long-term global and regional dynamics in water cycle and climate.<\/jats:p>","DOI":"10.3390\/rs13245156","type":"journal-article","created":{"date-parts":[[2021,12,20]],"date-time":"2021-12-20T02:40:32Z","timestamp":1639968032000},"page":"5156","update-policy":"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.3390\/mdpi_crossmark_policy","source":"Crossref","is-referenced-by-count":9,"title":["Artificial Neural Network-Based Microwave Satellite Soil Moisture Reconstruction over the Qinghai\u2013Tibet Plateau, China"],"prefix":"10.3390","volume":"13","author":[{"ORCID":"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0000-0003-0089-0392","authenticated-orcid":false,"given":"Jie","family":"Wang","sequence":"first","affiliation":[{"name":"Key Laboratory of Land Surface Pattern and Simulation, Institute of Geographic Sciences and Natural Resources Research, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100101, China"},{"name":"Department of Environment and Resources, University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100049, China"}]},{"given":"Duanyang","family":"Xu","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Key Laboratory of Land Surface Pattern and Simulation, Institute of Geographic Sciences and Natural Resources Research, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100101, China"}]}],"member":"1968","published-online":{"date-parts":[[2021,12,19]]},"reference":[{"key":"ref_1","doi-asserted-by":"crossref","first-page":"110","DOI":"10.1016\/j.jhydrol.2012.06.021","article-title":"A review of the methods available for estimating soil moisture and its implications for water resource management","volume":"458\u2013459","author":"Dobriyal","year":"2012","journal-title":"J. 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