Title :
The Soil Moisture and Ocean Salinity Mission - An Overview
Author :
Mecklenburg, S. ; Kerr, Y. ; Font, J. ; Hahne, A.
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;
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
DOI :
10.1109/IGARSS.2008.4779878
