Recent advance in earth observation big data for hydrology

L Chen, L Wang - Big Earth Data, 2018 - Taylor & Francis
In the past three decades, breakthroughs in satellites and remote sensing have highly
demonstrated their potential to characterize and model the various components of the …

Validation of Soil Moisture and Ocean Salinity (SMOS) soil moisture over watershed networks in the US

TJ Jackson, R Bindlish, MH Cosh… - IEEE transactions on …, 2011 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Estimation of soil moisture at large scale has been performed using several satellite-based
passive microwave sensors and a variety of retrieval methods over the past two decades …

Initial results of the geostationary synthetic thinned array radiometer (GeoSTAR) demonstrator instrument

AB Tanner, WJ Wilson, BH Lambrigsten… - … on Geoscience and …, 2007 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
The design, error budget, and preliminary test results of a 50-56-GHz synthetic aperture
radiometer demonstration system are presented. The instrument consists of a fixed 24 …

Global evaluation of SMAP/Sentinel-1 soil moisture products

F Mohseni, SM Mirmazloumi, M Mokhtarzade… - Remote Sensing, 2022 - mdpi.com
SMAP/Sentinel-1 soil moisture is the latest SMAP (Soil Moisture Active Passive) product
derived from synergistic utilization of the radiometry observations of SMAP and radar …

L-band radiometer observations of soil processes in boreal and subarctic environments

K Rautiainen, J Lemmetyinen… - … on Geoscience and …, 2011 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
The launch of the European Space Agency (ESA)'s Soil Moisture and Ocean Salinity
(SMOS) satellite mission in November 2009 opened a new era of global passive monitoring …

SMOS calibration

MA Brown, F Torres, I Corbella… - IEEE Transactions on …, 2008 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
The calibration of the Soil Moisture and Ocean Salinity (SMOS) payload instrument, known
as Microwave Imaging Radiometer by Aperture Synthesis (MIRAS), is based on …

Denormalization of visibilities for in-orbit calibration of interferometric radiometers

F Torres, I Corbella, A Camps, N Duffo… - … on Geoscience and …, 2006 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
This paper reviews the relative calibration of an interferometric radiometer taking into
account the experimental results of the first batch of receivers developed in the frame of the …

MIRAS calibration and performance: Results from the SMOS in-orbit commissioning phase

I Corbella, F Torres, N Duffo… - … on Geoscience and …, 2011 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
After the successful launching of the Soil Moisture and Ocean Salinity satellite in November
2009, continuous streams of data started to be regularly downloaded and made available to …

A passive millimeter-wave imager used for concealed weapon detection

C Zheng, X Yao, A Hu, J Miao - Progress In Electromagnetics Research B, 2013 - jpier.org
An 8 mm-band passive millimeter-wave imager BHU-2D has been developed by Beihang
University. This imager is designed for detecting concealed weapons on human body. The …

Combined SMAP–SMOS thin sea ice thickness retrieval

C Paţilea, G Heygster, M Huntemann, G Spreen - The Cryosphere, 2019 - tc.copernicus.org
The spaceborne passive microwave sensors Soil Moisture Ocean Salinity (SMOS) and Soil
Moisture Active Passive (SMAP) provide brightness temperature data in the L band (1.4 …