SMOS: The challenging sea surface salinity measurement from space

J Font, A Camps, A Borges… - Proceedings of the …, 2009 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Soil Moisture and Ocean Salinity, European Space Agency, is the first satellite mission
addressing the challenge of measuring sea surface salinity from space. It uses an L-band …

[图书][B] Thermal microwave radiation: applications for remote sensing

C Mätzler - 2006 - books.google.com
This book combines theoretical concepts with experimental results on thermal microwave
radiation to advance the understanding of the complex nature of terrestrial media. With the …

The determination of surface salinity with the European SMOS space mission

J Font, GSE Lagerloef, DM Le Vine… - … on geoscience and …, 2004 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
The European Space Agency Soil Moisture and Ocean Salinity (SMOS) mission aims at
obtaining global maps of soil moisture and sea surface salinity from space for large-scale …

Overview of the SMOS sea surface salinity prototype processor

S Zine, J Boutin, J Font, N Reul… - … on Geoscience and …, 2008 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
The L-band interferometric radiometer onboard the Soil Moisture and Ocean Salinity mission
will measure polarized brightness temperatures (Tb). The measurements are affected by …

The WISE 2000 and 2001 field experiments in support of the SMOS mission: Sea surface L-band brightness temperature observations and their application to sea …

A Camps, J Font, M Vall-Llossera… - … on Geoscience and …, 2004 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Soil Moisture and Ocean Salinity (SMOS) is an Earth Explorer Opportunity Mission from the
European Space Agency with a launch date in 2007. Its goal is to produce global maps of …

MIRAS end-to-end calibration: Application to SMOS L1 processor

I Corbella, F Torres, A Camps… - … on Geoscience and …, 2005 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
End-to-end calibration of the Microwave Imaging Radiometer by Aperture Synthesis
(MIRAS) radiometer refers to processing the measured raw data up to dual-polarization …

SMOS validation and the COSMOS campaigns

S Delwart, C Bouzinac, P Wursteisen… - … on Geoscience and …, 2008 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
The Soil Moisture and Ocean Salinity (SMOS) mission is a joint ESA-CNES (F)-CDTI (E)
mission within the ESA Living Planet Program, and it was the second ESA Earth Explorer …

Determination of the sea surface emissivity at L-band and application to SMOS salinity retrieval algorithms: Review of the contributions of the UPC-ICM

A Camps, J Font, M Vall-llossera, I Corbella… - Radio …, 2008 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
This work describes the main effects that have to be taken into account to model the sea
surface emission at L-band, and the existing approaches to perform the sea surface salinity …

Polarimetric formulation of the visibility function equation including cross-polar antenna patterns

A Camps, I Corbella, F Torres… - … and Remote Sensing …, 2005 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
The European Space Agency's Soil Moisture and Ocean Salinity (SMOS) mission will be the
first one using two-dimensional aperture synthesis radiometry for Earth observation. This …

New instrument concepts for ocean sensing: Analysis of the PAU-radiometer

A Camps, X Bosch-Lluis, I Ramos-Pérez… - … on Geoscience and …, 2007 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Sea surface salinity can be remotely measured by means of L-band microwave radiometry.
However, the brightness temperature also depends on the sea surface temperature and on …