The CoSMOS L-band experiment in Southeast Australia

Author

Saleh, K. ; Kerr, Yann H. ; Boulet, G. ; Maisongrande, P. ; de Rosnay, P. ; Floricioiu, Dana ; Escorihuela, M.J. ; Wigneron, Jean-Pierre ; Cano, A. ; Lopez-Baeza, E. ; Grant, J.P. ; Balling, J. ; Skou, N. ; Berger, Marcel ; Delwart, Steven ; Wursteisen, P

Author_Institution

Univ. of Cambridge, Cambridge

fYear

2007

fDate

23-28 July 2007

Firstpage

3948

Lastpage

3951

Abstract

The CoSMOS (Campaign for validating the Operation of the Soil Moisture and Ocean Salinity mission) campaign was conducted during November of 2005 in the Goulburn River Catchment, in SE Australia. The main objective of CoSMOS was to obtain a series of L-band measurements from the air in order to validate the L-band emission model that will be used by the SMOS (Soil Moisture and Ocean Salinity) ground segment processor. In addition, the campaign was designed to investigate open questions including the Sun-glint effect over land, the application of polarimetric measurements over land, and to clarify the importance of dew and interception for soil moisture retrievals. This paper summarises the campaign activities, and presents progress on the analysis of the CoSMOS data set.

Keywords

hydrological techniques; microwave measurement; moisture control; moisture measurement; radiometry; soil; AD 2005 11; CoSMOS L-band experiment; Goulburn River Catchment; L-band emission model; L-band measurement; Sun-glint effect; dew; passive microwave; polarimetric measurement; radiometer; soil moisture retrieval; southeast Australia; Aircraft; Australia; Crops; L-band; Moisture measurement; Rivers; SMOS mission; Sea measurements; Soil measurements; Soil moisture; L-band; SMOS; passive microwaves; soil moisture;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

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

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/IGARSS.2007.4423712

Filename

4423712