Title :
Design and technical implementation of MIRAS payload
Author_Institution :
Avda. Aragon 404, Madrid
Abstract :
SMOS (soil moisture and ocean salinity) is the second Earth Explorer Mission of Opportunity within the European Space Agency (ESA) Living Planet Program. The purpose of the SMOS mission is to provide soil moisture and ocean salinity maps from space. The mission is comprised of a satellite that measures the electromagnetic noise generated by Earth at L- band (1.4 GHz) with a spatial resolution of 50-100 Km and radiometric sensitivity of 5 K. SMOS detects the electromagnetic radiation at L band where microwave theorists have encountered a direct relationship between soil moisture and ocean salinity with Earth emissivity. SMOS single instrument is a innovative 2D synthetic aperture interferometric radiometer.
Keywords :
oceanographic techniques; oceanography; radiometers; remote sensing; soil; 2D synthetic aperture interferometric radiometer; ESA Living Planet Program; Earth emissivity; European Space Agency; L- band; MIRAS payload; Opportunity; SMOS; Soil Noisture and Ocean Salinity; electromagnetic noise; electromagnetic radiation; radiometric sensitivity; second Earth Explorer Mission; spatial resolution; Earth; Electromagnetic radiation; Extraterrestrial measurements; Microwave measurements; Microwave radiometry; Payloads; Planets; SMOS mission; Satellite broadcasting; Space missions; synthetic aperture interferometic radiometer;
Conference_Titel :
Geoscience and Remote Sensing Symposium, 2007. IGARSS 2007. IEEE International
Conference_Location :
Barcelona
Print_ISBN :
978-1-4244-1211-2
Electronic_ISBN :
978-1-4244-1212-9
DOI :
10.1109/IGARSS.2007.4423629
