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 …

Synthetic aperture imaging radiometers (SAIRs) are potential powerful instruments for high-
resolution observation of planetary surfaces at low microwave frequencies. This paper deals …

End-to-end calibration of the Microwave Imaging Radiometer by Aperture Synthesis
(MIRAS) radiometer refers to processing the measured raw data up to dual-polarization …

The European Space Agency (ESA) successfully launched the Soil Moisture and Ocean
Salinity (SMOS) mission in November 2, 2009. SMOS uses a new type of instrument, a …

This paper presents the concept and initial breadboarding results of Geostationary
Atmospheric Sounder (GAS), which is being developed by Saab Space AB and Omnisys AB …

The European Space Agency's Soil Moisture and Ocean Salinity (SMOS) mission aims at
producing global and frequent maps of SMOS and will be launched in 2008. SMOS'single …

Nonuniform aperture synthesis radiometers (NASRs) have the advantage of flexibility in
practical applications. However, the main limitation of NASRs for Earth observation is the …

The Microwave Imaging Radiometer by Aperture Synthesis (MIRAS) is the single payload of
the European Space Agency's (ESA) Soil Moisture and Ocean Salinity (SMOS) Earth …

The spatial resolution is still a problem in passive microwave remote sensing, especially in
low frequency. In recent years, the satellite formation flying has been proposed. Based on …

For most Earth observation applications, passive microwave radiometry from the
geostationary orbit requires prohibitively large apertures for conventional single-satellite …