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Jan E. Balling

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The CoSMOS L-band experiment in Southeast Australia

2007

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 …

Radiometer010504 meteorology & atmospheric sciencesMeteorologyPASSIVE MICROWAVES[SDV]Life Sciences [q-bio]BRIGHTNESS TEMPERATURE0211 other engineering and technologiesL-BAND EMISSION MODEL02 engineering and technology15. Life on land01 natural sciencesSalinity13. Climate action[SDE]Environmental SciencesSOIL MOISTUREEnvironmental scienceRadiometryDewGround segmentInterceptionWater contentCosmosComputingMilieux_MISCELLANEOUS021101 geological & geomatics engineering0105 earth and related environmental sciences
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Atmosphere-Space Interactions Monitor, Instrument and First Results

2019

The Atmosphere-Space Interaction Monitor (ASIM) is an observatory mounted outside the Columbus module on the International Space Station. It has been operational since April 13th, 2018. It contains two instruments: The Modular X- and Gamma-ray Sensor (MXGS) and The Modular Multispectral Imaging Array (MMIA). The objective of ASIM is to monitor thunderstorms and auroras, including lightning discharges, especially discharges upwards above thunderstorms. This paper presents the instrument package and some first results.

010504 meteorology & atmospheric sciencesbusiness.industryMultispectral imageModular designSpace (mathematics)01 natural sciencesLightningAtmosphereObservatory0103 physical sciencesInternational Space StationThunderstormEnvironmental sciencebusiness010303 astronomy & astrophysics0105 earth and related environmental sciencesRemote sensingIGARSS 2019 - 2019 IEEE International Geoscience and Remote Sensing Symposium
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The SMOS mediterranean ecosystem L-band characterisation experiment (MELBEX) over natural shrubs

2010

10 páginas, 5 figuras, 7 tablas.

Mediterranean climate[SPI.OTHER]Engineering Sciences [physics]/Other010504 meteorology & atmospheric sciencesBiomeved/biology.organism_classification_rank.speciesMISSION SMOSMicrowave radiometry0211 other engineering and technologiesRock fractionSoil Science02 engineering and technologyL-MEB MODEL7. Clean energy01 natural sciencesShrubMICROWAVE RADIOMETRY14. Life underwaterComputers in Earth SciencesWater contentOptical depthComputingMilieux_MISCELLANEOUS021101 geological & geomatics engineering0105 earth and related environmental sciencesRemote sensingRadiometerved/biologyBiosphereGeologyVegetation15. Life on landL-bandL-MEB13. Climate actionSOIL MOISTUREEnvironmental scienceSoil moistureROCK FRACTION[SPI.SIGNAL]Engineering Sciences [physics]/Signal and Image processingSMOSL-BAND
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The Modular X- and Gamma-Ray Sensor (MXGS)of the ASIM Payload on the International Space Station

2019

The Modular X- and Gamma-ray Sensor (MXGS) is an imaging and spectral X- and Gamma-ray instrument mounted on the starboard side of the Columbus module on the International Space Station. Together with the Modular Multi-Spectral Imaging Assembly (MMIA) (Chanrion et al. this issue) MXGS constitutes the instruments of the Atmosphere-Space Interactions Monitor (ASIM) (Neubert et al. this issue). The main objectives of MXGS are to image and measure the spectrum of X- and γ-rays from lightning discharges, known as Terrestrial Gamma-ray Flashes (TGFs), and for MMIA to image and perform high speed photometry of Transient Luminous Events (TLEs) and lightning discharges. With these two instruments sp…

Modular Multi-Spectral Imaging AssemblyPhysics - Instrumentation and Detectors010504 meteorology & atmospheric sciencesModular X- and Gamma-ray SensorFOS: Physical sciencesTerrestrial Gamma-ray FlashesInternational Space Station01 natural sciencesPhysics - Space Physics0103 physical sciencesInternational Space Station010303 astronomy & astrophysicsInstrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics (astro-ph.IM)Atmosphere-Space Interaction Monitor0105 earth and related environmental sciencesRemote sensingPhysicsbusiness.industryPayloadGamma rayX- and Gamma-ray detector for spaceAstronomy and AstrophysicsInstrumentation and Detectors (physics.ins-det)Modular designLightningSpace Physics (physics.space-ph)Photometry (astronomy)Space and Planetary ScienceTransient (oscillation)Astrophysics - Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysicsbusiness
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