It is now well understood that data on soil moisture and sea surface salinity (SSS) are required to improve meteorological and climate predictions. These two quantities are not yet …
Y Leroy, B Bocquet, A Mamouni - Physiological measurement, 1998 - iopscience.iop.org
Near-field microwave radiometry and radiometric imaging are non-invasive techniques that are able to provide temperature information at a depth of up to several centimetres in …
J Font, A Camps, A Borges… - Proceedings of the …, 2009 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
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 …
KD McMullan, MA Brown… - … on Geoscience and …, 2008 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
The European Space Agency's Soil Moisture and Ocean Salinity satellite comprises a single payload instrument known as the Microwave Interferometric Radiometer with Aperture …
I Corbella, N Duffo, M Vall-Llossera… - … on Geoscience and …, 2004 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
The fundamental equation of interferometric aperture synthesis radiometry is revised to include full antenna pattern characterization and receivers' interaction. It is shown that the …
DM Le Vine, AJ Griffis, CT Swift… - Proceedings of the …, 1994 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
ESTAR represents a new technology being developed for passive microwave remote sensing of the environment from space. The instrument employs an interferometric …
N Reul, J Tenerelli, B Chapron… - Journal of …, 2012 - Wiley Online Library
The Soil Moisture and Ocean Salinity (SMOS) mission currently provides multiangular L‐ band (1.4 GHz) brightness temperature images of the Earth. Because upwelling radiation at …
N Reul, S Fournier, J Boutin, O Hernandez… - Surveys in …, 2014 - Springer
While it is well known that the ocean is one of the most important component of the climate system, with a heat capacity 1,100 times greater than the atmosphere, the ocean is also the …
In Earth observation programs there is a need of passive low frequency (L-band) measurements to monitor soil moisture and ocean salinity with high spatial resolution 10-20 …