DocumentCode
484649
Title
The Soil Moisture and Ocean Salinity Mission - An Overview
Author
Mecklenburg, S. ; Kerr, Y. ; Font, J. ; Hahne, A.
Volume
4
fYear
2008
fDate
7-11 July 2008
Abstract
The Soil Moisture and Ocean Salinity (SMOS) mission is the European Space Agency´s (ESA) second Earth Explorer Opportunity mission. The scientific objectives of the SMOS mission directly respond to the current lack of global observations of soil moisture and ocean salinity, two key variables used in predictive hydrological, oceanographic and atmospheric models. The paper will give an overview on the scientific objectives and the (access to the) available data products.
Keywords
moisture; oceanography; soil; Earth Explorer Opportunity mission; European Space Agency; SMOS mission; ocean salinity; soil moisture; Earth; L-band; Land surface; Microwave radiometry; Ocean temperature; Rough surfaces; SMOS mission; Sea surface; Surface roughness; Surface topography; L-Band radiometry; Soil Moisture and Ocean Salinity (SMOS) Mission; remote sensing; sea surface salinity; soil moisture;
fLanguage
English
Publisher
ieee
Conference_Titel
Geoscience and Remote Sensing Symposium, 2008. IGARSS 2008. IEEE International
Conference_Location
Boston, MA
Print_ISBN
978-1-4244-2807-6
Electronic_ISBN
978-1-4244-2808-3
Type
conf
DOI
10.1109/IGARSS.2008.4779878
Filename
4779878
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