Satellite salinity observing system: Recent discoveries and the way forward

N Vinogradova, T Lee, J Boutin, K Drushka… - Frontiers in Marine …, 2019 - frontiersin.org
Advances in L-band microwave satellite radiometry in the past decade, pioneered by ESA's
SMOS and NASA's Aquarius and SMAP missions, have demonstrated an unprecedented …

The soil moisture active passive (SMAP) mission

D Entekhabi, EG Njoku, PE O'neill… - Proceedings of the …, 2010 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
The Soil Moisture Active Passive (SMAP) mission is one of the first Earth observation
satellites being developed by NASA in response to the National Research Council's …

A review of RFI mitigation techniques in microwave radiometry

J Querol, A Perez, A Camps - Remote Sensing, 2019 - mdpi.com
Radio frequency interference (RFI) is a well-known problem in microwave radiometry
(MWR). Any undesired signal overlapping the MWR protected frequency bands introduces a …

Radio-frequency interference mitigation for the soil moisture active passive microwave radiometer

JR Piepmeier, JT Johnson… - … on Geoscience and …, 2013 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
The Soil Moisture Active Passive (SMAP) radiometer operates in the L-band protected
spectrum (1400-1427 MHz) that is known to be vulnerable to radio-frequency interference …

SMAP L-band microwave radiometer: RFI mitigation prelaunch analysis and first year on-orbit observations

PN Mohammed, M Aksoy, JR Piepmeier… - … on Geoscience and …, 2016 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
The National Aeronautics and Space Administration's (NASA) Soil Moisture Active and
Passive (SMAP) mission, which was launched on January 31, 2015, is providing global …

Sensitivity of the kurtosis statistic as a detector of pulsed sinusoidal RFI

RD De Roo, S Misra, CS Ruf - IEEE Transactions on …, 2007 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
A new type of microwave radiometer detector that is capable of identifying low-level pulsed
radio frequency interference (RFI) has been developed. The Agile Digital Detector can …

Radio frequency interference detection for smap radiometer using convolutional neural networks

AM Alam, M Kurum, AC Gurbuz - IEEE Journal of Selected …, 2022 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Passive remote sensing is a crucial technology for climate studies and Earth science.
National Aeronautics and Space Administration's soil moisture active passive (SMAP) is a …

Radio frequency interference excision using spectral‐domain statistics

GM Nita, DE Gary, Z Liu, GJ Hurford… - Publications of the …, 2007 - iopscience.iop.org
ABSTRACT A radio frequency interference (RFI) excision algorithm based on spectral
kurtosis, a spectral variant of time‐domain kurtosis, is proposed and implemented in …

A first assessment of the SMOS soil moisture product with in situ and modeled data in Italy and Luxembourg

T Lacava, P Matgen, L Brocca, M Bittelli… - … on Geoscience and …, 2012 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
The European Space Agency Soil Moisture and Ocean Salinity (SMOS) mission was
launched on November 2, 2009. Providing accurate soil moisture (SM) estimation is one of …

Time and frequency blanking for radio-frequency interference mitigation in microwave radiometry

B Guner, JT Johnson… - IEEE Transactions on …, 2007 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Radio-frequency interference (RFI) is a major limiting factor in passive microwave remote
sensing and radio astronomy. A digitally based radiometer system has been developed to …