SMOS: The Challenging Sea Surface Salinity Measurement From Space

Font, Jordi; Camps, Adriano; Borges, Andrés; Martín‐Neira, Manuel; Boutin, Jacqueline; Reul, Nicolás; H. Kerr, Yann; Hahne, A.; Mecklenburg, Susanne

doi:10.1109/jproc.2009.2033096

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SMOS: The Challenging Sea Surface Salinity Measurement From Space

Published in Proceedings of the IEEE • Dec 1, 2009

Authors:

Jordi Font

Adriano Camps

Andrés Borges

Abstract

Soil Moisture and Ocean Salinity, European Space Agency, is the first satellite mission addressing the challenge of measuring sea surface salinity from space. It uses an L-band microwave interferometric radiometer with aperture synthesis (MIRAS) that generates brightness temperature images, from whi...

Subject

Remote sensing

Salinity

Radiometer

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