Title :
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
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;
Conference_Titel :
Geoscience and Remote Sensing Symposium (IGARSS), 2012 IEEE International
Conference_Location :
Munich
Print_ISBN :
978-1-4673-1160-1
Electronic_ISBN :
2153-6996
DOI :
10.1109/IGARSS.2012.6350834
