Title :
Overview on calibration and validation activities for ESA´s soil moisture and ocean salinity mission
Author :
Mecklenburg, S. ; Bouzinac, C. ; Delwart, S.
Author_Institution :
Eur. Space Agency (ESA), Noordwijk, Netherlands
Abstract :
The Soil Moisture and Ocean Salinity (SMOS) mission is the European Space Agency´s (ESA) second Earth Explorer Opportunity mission. The scientific objectives of the SMOS mission directly respond to the current lack of global observations of soil moisture and ocean salinity, two key variables used in predictive hydrological, oceanographic and atmospheric models. The paper will give an overview on the scientific objectives and the (access to the) available data products.
Keywords :
calibration; hydrology; oceanography; radiometry; remote sensing; seawater; soil; ESA SMOS mission; European Space Agency; Soil Moisture And Ocean Salinity; atmospheric models; calibration; hydrology; ocean salinity; oceanography; second Earth Explorer Opportunity mission; soil moisture; validation activities; Calibration; Earth; Land surface; Ocean temperature; Rough surfaces; SMOS mission; Sea surface; Soil moisture; Space missions; Surface roughness; L-Band radiometry; Soil Moisture and Ocean Salinity (SMOS) Mission; remote sensing; sea surface salinity; soil moisture;
Conference_Titel :
Geoscience and Remote Sensing Symposium,2009 IEEE International,IGARSS 2009
Conference_Location :
Cape Town
Print_ISBN :
978-1-4244-3394-0
Electronic_ISBN :
978-1-4244-3395-7
DOI :
10.1109/IGARSS.2009.5418111
