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 …

Satellite-based microwave radiometers can measure sea surface temperature (SST) over
wide areas, even under cloud cover, owing to the weak absorption of microwaves by cloud …

L-band microwave backscatter and brightness temperature of sea surfaces acquired using
the Passive/Active L-band Sensor during the High Ocean Wind campaign are reported in …

Whitecap foam decay times for 552 individual breaking waves determined from digital
images of the sea surface are reported. The images had sub‐centimeter pixel resolution and …

For the first time, rain effects on the polarimetric observations of the global navigation
satellite system reflectometry (GNSS-R) are investigated. The physical feasibility of tracking …

The interest of the scientific community in global climate has been constantly increasing in
the last years. Much effort has been devoted to better understand the water cycle and its role …

A new payload concept has been proposed: the microwave imager combined active/passive
(MICAP). MICAP is a combined one-dimensional microwave interferometric radiometer that …

In order to have the required accuracies in method of moments (MoM) for numerical
simulations of ocean scattering at microwave frequencies, we need to account for the much …

L-band radiometry is widely considered the best technique for Earth observing satellites to
measure sea surface salinity (SSS). Interferometric aperture synthesis is a new technology …

This paper presents the description and performance tests of an L-band microwave
radiometer with Digital Beamforming (DBF), developed for the Passive Advanced Unit (PAU) …