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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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| Al Bitar, Ahmad; Mialon, Arnaud; Kerr, Yann H.; Cabot, Francois; Richaume, Philippe; Jacquette, Elsa; Quesney, Arnaud; Mahmoodi, Ali; Tarot, Stephane; Parrens, Marie; Al-yaari, Amen; Pellarin, Thierry; Rodriguez-fernandez, Nemesio; Wigneron, Jean-pierre. |
| The objective of this paper is to present the multi-orbit (MO) surface soil moisture (SM) and angle-binned brightness temperature (TB) products for the SMOS (Soil Moisture and Ocean Salinity) mission based on a new multi-orbit algorithm. The Level 3 algorithm at CATDS (Centre Aval de Traitement des Donnees SMOS) makes use of MO retrieval to enhance the robustness and quality of SM retrievals. The motivation of the approach is to make use of the longer temporal autocorrelation length of the vegetation optical depth (VOD) compared to the corresponding SM autocorrelation in order to enhance the retrievals when an acquisition occurs at the border of the swath. The retrieval algorithm is implemented in a unique operational processor delivering multiple... |
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| Ano: 2017 |
URL: https://archimer.ifremer.fr/doc/00388/49941/50526.pdf |
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