The SMOS Mission: New Tool for Monitoring Key Elements of the Global Water Cycle

Kerr, Y. ... et al.-- 22 pages, 9 figures, 3 tables.-- © 2010 IEEE. Personal use of this material is permitted. Permission from IEEE must be obtained for all other uses, in any current or future media, including reprinting/republishing this material for advertising or promotional purposes, creating...

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Autores: Kerr, Yann H., Font, Jordi
Tipo de recurso: artículo
Fecha de publicación:2010
País:España
Institución:Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas (CSIC)
Repositorio:DIGITAL.CSIC. Repositorio Institucional del CSIC
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Palabra clave:Interferometry
L-band
Soil Moisture and Ocean Salinity
Sea surface salinity
Soil moisture
Vegetation water content
SSS
SMOS
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spelling The SMOS Mission: New Tool for Monitoring Key Elements of the Global Water CycleKerr, Yann H.Font, JordiInterferometryL-bandSoil Moisture and Ocean SalinitySea surface salinitySoil moistureVegetation water contentSSSSMOSKerr, Y. ... et al.-- 22 pages, 9 figures, 3 tables.-- © 2010 IEEE. Personal use of this material is permitted. Permission from IEEE must be obtained for all other uses, in any current or future media, including reprinting/republishing this material for advertising or promotional purposes, creating new collective works, for resale or redistribution to servers or lists, or reuse of any copyrighted component of this work in other worksIt 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 el Desarrollo Tecnologico Industrial (CDTI) in Spain. SMOS carries a single payload, an L-Band 2-D interferometric radiometer operating in the 14001427-MHz protected band. The instrument receives the radiation emitted from Earth's surface, which can then be related to the moisture content in the first few centimeters of soil over land, and to salinity in the surface waters of the oceans. SMOS will achieve an unprecedented maximum spatial resolution of 50 km at L-band over land (43 km on average over the field of view), providing multiangular dual polarized (or fully polarized) brightness temperatures over the globe. SMOS has a revisit time of less than 3 days so as to retrieve soil moisture and ocean salinity data, meeting the mission's science objectives. The caveat in relation to its sampling requirements is that SMOS will have a somewhat reduced sensitivity when compared to conventional radiometers. The SMOS satellite was launched successfully on November 2, 2009The contributions came obviously from the science teams but also from the technical teams at Agencies (ESA and CNES) and in the Industry (mainly CASA EADS, Thales Alenia Space, and Eurockot, but also many others). The French contribution was supported also by the national program TOSCAPeer ReviewedInstitute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers2013201320102013info:eu-repo/semantics/articlehttp://purl.org/coar/resource_type/c_6501http://hdl.handle.net/10261/80994reponame:DIGITAL.CSIC. Repositorio Institucional del CSICinstname:Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas (CSIC)Ingléshttps://doi.org/10.1109/JPROC.2010.2043032info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccessoai:digital.csic.es:10261/809942026-05-22T06:33:51Z
dc.title.none.fl_str_mv The SMOS Mission: New Tool for Monitoring Key Elements of the Global Water Cycle
title The SMOS Mission: New Tool for Monitoring Key Elements of the Global Water Cycle
spellingShingle The SMOS Mission: New Tool for Monitoring Key Elements of the Global Water Cycle
Kerr, Yann H.
Interferometry
L-band
Soil Moisture and Ocean Salinity
Sea surface salinity
Soil moisture
Vegetation water content
SSS
SMOS
title_short The SMOS Mission: New Tool for Monitoring Key Elements of the Global Water Cycle
title_full The SMOS Mission: New Tool for Monitoring Key Elements of the Global Water Cycle
title_fullStr The SMOS Mission: New Tool for Monitoring Key Elements of the Global Water Cycle
title_full_unstemmed The SMOS Mission: New Tool for Monitoring Key Elements of the Global Water Cycle
title_sort The SMOS Mission: New Tool for Monitoring Key Elements of the Global Water Cycle
dc.creator.none.fl_str_mv Kerr, Yann H.
Font, Jordi
author Kerr, Yann H.
author_facet Kerr, Yann H.
Font, Jordi
author_role author
author2 Font, Jordi
author2_role author
dc.subject.none.fl_str_mv Interferometry
L-band
Soil Moisture and Ocean Salinity
Sea surface salinity
Soil moisture
Vegetation water content
SSS
SMOS
topic Interferometry
L-band
Soil Moisture and Ocean Salinity
Sea surface salinity
Soil moisture
Vegetation water content
SSS
SMOS
description Kerr, Y. ... et al.-- 22 pages, 9 figures, 3 tables.-- © 2010 IEEE. Personal use of this material is permitted. Permission from IEEE must be obtained for all other uses, in any current or future media, including reprinting/republishing this material for advertising or promotional purposes, creating new collective works, for resale or redistribution to servers or lists, or reuse of any copyrighted component of this work in other works
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