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The EuroSTARRS airborne campaign in support of the SMOS mission: first results over land surfaces
Ernesto Lopez-baezaP. WursteisenPaolo FerrazzoliK. SalehJean-christophe CalvetM. BergerJ. MillerL. SimmondsJean-pierre Wigneronsubject
[SPI.OTHER]Engineering Sciences [physics]/Other010504 meteorology & atmospheric sciencesMeteorology0211 other engineering and technologies02 engineering and technology01 natural sciences14. Life underwaterSea surface salinityWater contentComputingMilieux_MISCELLANEOUS021101 geological & geomatics engineering0105 earth and related environmental sciencesRemote sensingRadiometerSurface emission[SPI.OTHER] Engineering Sciences [physics]/OtherSTARRSSURFACE DU SOLSettore ING-INF/02 - Campi ElettromagneticiSalinity13. Climate actionBrightness temperatureGeneral Earth and Planetary SciencesEnvironmental scienceRadiometryMicrowave radiometrydescription
A number of experiments using ground-based and airborne sensors have shown the high potential of L-band passive microwave radiometry for estimating and monitoring surface soil moisture. This has led to the Soil Moisture and Ocean Salinity (SMOS) mission, a European Space Agency (ESA) Earth Explorer Opportunity mission. SMOS has the objective to observe soil moisture over land and sea surface salinity over sea, both key parameters for atmospheric, oceanographic and hydrological predictive models. In preparation of SMOS, the EuroSTARRS airborne campaign was carried out in November 2001. Multi-angular measurements of the surface brightness temperature at L-band (1.4 GHz) at vertical polarization were acquired by the ‘Salinity Temperature and Roughness Remote Scanner’ (STARRS) radiometer from the Naval Research Laboratory (NRL, USA) over several sites in Southern France, the Pyrenees and Eastern Spain. The chosen sites represent specific land conditions and vegetation canopies where microwave surface emission...
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| 2004-01-01 |