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Active microwave sensors such as C-band Sentinel-1 synthetic aperture radar (SAR) can serve as powerful tools to detect field-scale soil FT state. Using Sentinel-1 SAR observations, this study compares the performance of two FT detection approaches, a commonly used seasonal threshold approach (STA) and a computationally inexpensive general threshold approach (GTA) at an agricultural field in New Hampshire, US. It also explores the applicability of an interferometric coherence approach (ICA) for FT detection. STA and GTA achieved 85% and 78% accuracy, respectively, using VH polarization. We find a marginal degradation in the performance of STA (82%) and GTA (76%) when employing VV-polarized data. While there was approximately a 6 percentage point difference between STA\u2019s and GTA\u2018s overall accuracy, we recommend GTA for FT detection using SAR images at sub-field-scale over extended regions because of its higher computational efficiency. Our analysis shows that interferometric coherence is not suitable for detecting FT transitions under mild and highly dynamic winter conditions. We hypothesize that the relatively mild winter conditions and therefore the subtle FT transitions are not able to significantly reduce the correlation between the phase values. Also, the ephemeral nature of snowpack in our study area, further compounded by frequent rainfall, could cause decorrelation of SAR images even in the absence of a FT transition. 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