Intercalibration of satellite instruments is critical for detection and quantification of changes
in the Earth's environment, weather forecasting, understanding climate processes, and …

Abstract The Global Precipitation Measurement (GPM) mission is a constellation-based
satellite mission designed to unify and advance precipitation measurements using both …

The European Space Agency Soil Moisture and Ocean Salinity (SMOS) mission aims at
obtaining global maps of soil moisture and sea surface salinity from space for large-scale …

This paper presents an approach, with emphasis on the newly proposed line segment
matching method, for extracting urban road networks from high-resolution satellite images …

A technique for comparing spaceborne microwave radiometer brightness temperatures (Tb)
is described in the context of the upcoming National Aeronautics and Space Administration …

Updated absolute bias estimates are presented from the Bass Strait calibration site
(Australia) for the TOPEX/Poseidon (T/P), Jason-1 and the Ocean Surface Topography …

Radar altimetry was, very early in the development of space technology, identified as a key
technique to provide essential information on solid Earth and ocean dynamics. Satellite …

The accuracy of geophysical retrievals from radiometers relies on calibration quality,
encompassing both absolute radiometric accuracy and spectral consistency. Radiometers …

The Soil Moisture and Ocean Salinity (SMOS) mission is a joint ESA-CNES (F)-CDTI (E)
mission within the ESA Living Planet Program, and it was the second ESA Earth Explorer …

Results are presented from the on-orbit calibration of the Jason Microwave Radiometer
(JMR). The JMR brightness temperatures (TBs) are calibrated at the hottest and coldest …