SMOS Validation and the COSMOS Campaigns

Author

Delwart, Steven ; Bouzinac, Catherine ; Wursteisen, Patrick ; Berger, Michael ; Drinkwater, Mark ; Martín-Neira, Manuel ; Kerr, Yann H.

Author_Institution

Eur. Space Agency, Noordwijk

Volume

46

Issue

3

fYear

2008

fDate

3/1/2008 12:00:00 AM

Firstpage

695

Lastpage

704

Abstract

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 Opportunity Mission to be selected. The mission objectives of SMOS are to provide soil moisture and ocean salinity observations for weather forecasting, climate monitoring, and the global freshwater cycle. This paper will describe the scientific campaigns performed to date, as well as the plans for the on-orbit calibration and validation activities.

Keywords

atmospheric techniques; climatology; hydrological techniques; hydrology; moisture; oceanographic techniques; remote sensing; seawater; soil; weather forecasting; COSMOS campaign; ESA Earth Explorer Opportunity Mission; ESA Living Planet Program; ESA-CNES (F)-CDTI (E) mission; SMOS mission; SMOS validation; Soil Moisture and Ocean Salinity mission; climate monitoring; global freshwater cycle; ocean salinity observations; on orbit calibration; on orbit validation; soil moisture observations; weather forecasting; Earth; Land surface; Microwave radiometry; Ocean temperature; SMOS mission; Samarium; Sea surface; Space missions; Space technology; Vegetation; Calibration; Soil Moisture and Ocean Salinity (SMOS); moisture measurement; radiometry; remote sensing; sea surface; sea surface salinity (SSS); soil; soil moisture (SM); validation; vicarious;

fLanguage

English

Journal_Title

Geoscience and Remote Sensing, IEEE Transactions on

Publisher

ieee

ISSN

0196-2892

Type

jour

DOI

10.1109/TGRS.2007.914811

Filename

4456815