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The WISE 2000 campaign: sea surface salinity and wind retrievals from L-band radiometry
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Author:
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Camps Carmona, Adriano José; Corbella Sanahuja, Ignasi; Font Ferré, Jordi; Etcheto, Jacqueline; Duffo Ubeda, Núria; Vall-Llossera Ferran, Mercedes Magdalena; Bará Temes, Francisco Javier; Torres Torres, Francisco; Wursteisen, Patrick; Martín Neira, Manuel
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Other authors:
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Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya. Departament de Teoria del Senyal i Comunicacions; Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya. RSLAB - Grup de Recerca en Teledetecció |
Abstract:
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Sea surface salinity (SSS) has been recognized as a key parameter in climatological studies. SSS can be measured by passive microwave remote sensing at L band, where the sensitivity of the brightness temperatures shows a maximum and the atmosphere is almost transparent. To provide global coverage of this basic parameter with a 3-day revisit time, the SMOS mission was recently selected by ESA within the frame of the Earth Explorer Opportunity Missions. The SMOS mission will carry the MIRAS instrument, the first 2D L-band aperture synthesis interferometric radiometer. To address new challenges that this mission presents, such as incidence angle variation with pixel, polarization mixing, effect of wind and foam and others, a measurement campaign has been sponsored by ESA under the name of WISE 2000 and it is scheduled for October-November 2000. Two L-band radiometers, a video, a IR and a stereo-camera and four oceanographic and meteorological buoys will be installed in the oil platform 'Casablanca' located at 40 Km off the coast of Tarragona, where the sea conditions are representative of the Mediterranean open sea with periodic influence of the Ebro river fresh water plume. |
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Peer Reviewed |
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-Àrees temàtiques de la UPC::Enginyeria de la telecomunicació -Remote sensing -Salinity -L band -Radiometry -Physical oceanography -Polarization -Teledetecció -Salinitat |
Rights:
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http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/3.0/es/ |
Document type:
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Article - Published version Conference Object |
Published by:
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International Society for Photo-Optical Instrumentation Engineers (SPIE)
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