Title
SMOS: The Challenging Sea Surface Salinity Measurement From Space
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 which both geophysical variables are computed. The retrieval of salinity requires very demanding perfor...
Year
DOI
Venue
2010
10.1109/JPROC.2009.2033096
Proceedings of the IEEE
Keywords
Field
DocType
Sea surface salinity,Sea measurements,Extraterrestrial measurements,Geophysical measurements,Soil measurements,Space missions,Geophysics computing,Instruments,Calibration,SMOS mission
Meteorology,Satellite,Remote sensing,Ocean chemistry,Space exploration,Environmental science,Radiometry,Microwave imaging,Salinity,Water cycle,Microwave radiometer
Journal
Volume
Issue
ISSN
98
5
0018-9219
Citations 
PageRank 
References 
73
7.52
35
Authors
9
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Jordi Font144453.52
Adriano Camps21050218.43
Andrés Borges3737.52
Manuel Martin-Neira452451.78
Jacqueline Boutin553164.06
Nicolas Reul648248.10
Yann H. Kerr7953105.41
Achim Hahne832326.44
Susanne Mecklenburg934229.11