Status of RFI in the 1400–1427 MHz passive band: The SMOS perspective

Author

Oliva, R. ; Daganzo, E. ; Soldo, Yan ; Kerr, Yann ; Cabot, Francois ; Richaume, Philippe ; Anterrieu, Eric ; Gutierrez, Alvaro ; Barbosa, J. ; Lopes, Gary

Author_Institution

ESA-ESAC Villanueva de la Canada, Eur. Space Agency, Villanueva de la Cañada, Spain

fYear

2014

fDate

16-23 Aug. 2014

Firstpage

1

Lastpage

4

Abstract

The current paper describes the status of Radio Frequency interference (RFI) in the SMOS observations and the recent efforts performed by the SMOS team to mitigate the negative effects of the interfering sources. This efforts comprise new methodologies being introduced at the new level 1 processor in order to flag the observations affected by RFI and a continuous monitoring and reporting of the RFI sources worldwide, to request countries to protect the spectrum from illegal transmissions.

Keywords

microwave imaging; oceanographic techniques; radiofrequency interference; salinity (geophysical); soil; RFI sources; SMOS observations; SMOS perspective; SMOS team; interfering sources; passive band; radio frequency interference; soil moisture and ocean salinity mission; Antenna measurements; Europe; Geophysical measurements; Monitoring; Radiofrequency interference; SMOS mission; Temperature measurement;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

General Assembly and Scientific Symposium (URSI GASS), 2014 XXXIth URSI

Conference_Location

Beijing

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/URSIGASS.2014.6929667

Filename

6929667