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Font, Jordi; Camps, Adriano; Borges, Andres; Martin-neira, Manuel; Boutin, Jacqueline; Reul, Nicolas; Kerr, Yann H.; Hahne, Achim; Mecklenburg, Susanne. |
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 microwave interferometric radiometer with aperture synthesis (MIRAS) that generates brightness temperature images, from which both geophysical variables are computed. The retrieval of salinity requires very demanding performances of the instrument in terms of calibration and stability. This paper highlights the importance of ocean salinity for the Earth's water cycle and climate; provides a detailed description of the MIRAS instrument, its principles of operation, calibration, and image-reconstruction techniques; and presents the algorithmic approach implemented for the retrieval of... |
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Palavras-chave: Aperture synthesis; Imaging; Microwave radiometry; Remote sensing; Salinity. |
Ano: 2010 |
URL: http://archimer.ifremer.fr/doc/00004/11482/8066.pdf |
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Kerr, Yann H.; Waldteufel, Philippe; Wigneron, Jean-pierre; Delwart, Steven; Cabot, Francois; Boutin, Jacqueline; Escorihuela, Maria-jose; Font, Jordi; Reul, Nicolas; Gruhier, Claire; Juglea, Silvia Enache; Drinkwater, Mark R.; Hahne, Achim; Martin-neira, Manuel; Mecklenburg, Susanne. |
It is now well understood that data on soil moisture and sea surface salinity (SSS) are required to improve meteorological and climate predictions. These two quantities are not yet available globally or with adequate temporal or spatial sampling. It is recognized that a spaceborne L-band radiometer with a suitable antenna is the most promising way of fulfilling this gap. With these scientific objectives and technical solution at the heart of a proposed mission concept the European Space Agency (ESA) selected the Soil Moisture and Ocean Salinity (SMOS) mission as its second Earth Explorer Opportunity Mission. The development of the SMOS mission was led by ESA in collaboration with the Centre National d'Etudes Spatiales (CNES) in France and the Centro para... |
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Palavras-chave: Interferometry; L-band; Sea surface salinity (SSS); Soil moisture; Soil Moisture and Ocean Salinity (SMOS); Vegetation water content. |
Ano: 2010 |
URL: http://archimer.ifremer.fr/doc/00004/11483/8065.pdf |
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Reul, Nicolas; Fournier, Severine; Boutin, Jacqueline; Hernandez, Olga; Maes, Christophe; Chapron, Bertrand; Alory, Gael; Quilfen, Yves; Tenerelli, Joseph; Morisset, Simmon; Kerr, Yann; Mecklenburg, Susanne; Delwart, Steven. |
While it is well known that the ocean is one of the most important component of the climate system, with a heat capacity 1,100 times greater than the atmosphere, the ocean is also the primary reservoir for freshwater transport to the atmosphere and largest component of the global water cycle. Two new satellite sensors, the ESA Soil Moisture and Ocean Salinity (SMOS) and the NASA Aquarius SAC-D missions, are now providing the first space-borne measurements of the sea surface salinity (SSS). In this paper, we present examples demonstrating how SMOS-derived SSS data are being used to better characterize key land–ocean and atmosphere–ocean interaction processes that occur within the marine hydrological cycle. In particular, SMOS with its ocean mapping... |
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Palavras-chave: Sea surface salinity; SMOS satellite; Passive microwave remote sensing; Oceanic freshwater cycle. |
Ano: 2014 |
URL: http://archimer.ifremer.fr/doc/00152/26334/24430.pdf |
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