From the Determination of Sea Emissivity to the Retrieval of Salinity: Recent Contributions to the SMOS Mission from the UPC and ICM

Author

Camps, A. ; Font, J. ; Val-Ilossera, M. ; Villarino, R. ; Gabarró, C. ; Enrique, L. ; Miranda, J. ; Corbella, I. ; Duffo, N. ; Torres, F. ; Blanch, S. ; Aguasca, A. ; Sabia, R.

Author_Institution

Univ. Politec. de Catalunya, Barcelona

fYear

2006

fDate

July 31 2006-Aug. 4 2006

Firstpage

1697

Lastpage

1701

Abstract

This work summarizes the main findings of the activities carried out in the past years by the Microwave Radiometry Team at the Technical University of Catalonia (UPC) in the field of sea surface salinity retrieval within the frame of the SMOS mission in collaboration with the Institute of Marine Sciences (ICM/CMIMA-CSIC). They cover the measurement of the dielectric permittivity of the sea water at L- band, the impact on the sea emissivity of the surface roughness (waves, swell, currents, rain ...) and oil spills, and its comparison with numerical models, as well as the development of sea surface salinity retrieval algorithms for SMOS.

Keywords

oceanography; remote sensing; seawater; terrestrial electricity; Institute of Marine Sciences; L-band measurement; SMOS mission; Soil Moisture and Ocean Salinity; Technical University of Catalonia; UPC; oil spills; sea emissivity determination; sea emissivity impact; sea surface roughness; sea surface salinity retrievals; sea water dielectric permittivity; Collaborative work; Current measurement; Dielectric measurements; Microwave radiometry; Online Communities/Technical Collaboration; Permittivity measurement; SMOS mission; Sea measurements; Sea surface salinity; Surface waves;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Geoscience and Remote Sensing Symposium, 2006. IGARSS 2006. IEEE International Conference on

Conference_Location

Denver, CO

Print_ISBN

0-7803-9510-7

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/IGARSS.2006.439

Filename

4241586