SMOS instrument performance and calibration

Author

Martín-Neira, Manuel ; Corbella, Ignasi ; Torres, Francesc ; Kainulainen, Juha ; Oliva, Roger ; Closa, Josep ; Cabot, François ; Castro, Rita ; Barbosa, José ; Gutierrez, Antonio ; Anterrieu, Eric ; Tenerelli, Joe ; Martín-Porqueras, Fernando ; Buenadicha

Author_Institution

ESTEC, Eur. Space Agency, Noordwijk, Netherlands

fYear

2012

fDate

22-27 July 2012

Firstpage

2864

Lastpage

2867

Abstract

This paper presents the progress made in the calibration and image reconstruction of the brightness temperature data provided by the SMOS mission of the European Space Agency. This progress has been made thanks to the learning through the accumulation of results since the launch of the satellite. Current performance of the payload on-board SMOS, the MIRAS interferometer, our main findings on its behavior and open lines of investigation are included in this contribution.

Keywords

atmospheric techniques; atmospheric temperature; calibration; geophysical image processing; image reconstruction; radiometry; remote sensing; European Space Agency; MIRAS interferometer; SMOS instrument performance; brightness temperature data; image reconstruction; instrument calibration; Antarctica; Calibration; Image reconstruction; Instruments; Microwave radiometry; Oceans; Sea measurements; MIRAS; SMOS mission; aperture synthesis; microwave radiometry;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Geoscience and Remote Sensing Symposium (IGARSS), 2012 IEEE International

Conference_Location

Munich

ISSN

2153-6996

Print_ISBN

978-1-4673-1160-1

Electronic_ISBN

2153-6996

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/IGARSS.2012.6350834

Filename

6350834