Title :
Extended Ocean Salinity Error Budget Analysis within the SMOS Mission
Author :
Sabia, R. ; Camps, A. ; Vall-llossera, M. ; Talone, M.
Author_Institution :
Remote Sensing Lab./ SMOS-BEC, Univ. Politec. de Catalunya, Barcelona
Abstract :
The Soil Moisture and Ocean Salinity mission will provide from 2009 onwards sea surface salinity maps over the oceans. In this paper an ocean salinity error budget is described. Instrumental, external noise sources and geophysical errors have been analysed, stressing their relative degree of impact. With the aim of improving this study, an extended version of this analysis provides an overall vision of the salinity retrieval in a wider set of configurations.
Keywords :
error analysis; oceanography; AD 2009; SMOS mission; Soil Moisture and Ocean Salinity mission; error budget analysis; geophysical errors; ocean salinity; Brightness temperature; Calibration; Error analysis; Image retrieval; Instruments; Ocean salinity; Radiometry; Remote sensing; SMOS mission; Sea surface salinity; Error Budget; Retrieval; SMOS; Salinity;
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.2008.4779776
