SMOS instrument performance and calibration after 6 years in orbit

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Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya. Departament de Teoria del Senyal i Comunicacions

Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya. RF&MW - Grup de Recerca de sistemes, dispositius i materials de RF i microones

Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya. RSLAB - Grup de Recerca en Teledetecció

Publication date

2016

Abstract

ESA’s Soil Moisture and Ocean Salinity (SMOS) mission has been in orbit for over 6 years, and its Microwave Imaging Radiometer with Aperture Synthesis (MIRAS) in two dimensions keeps working well. The data for almost this whole period has been reprocessed with the new fully polarimetric version (v620) of the Level-1 processor which also includes refined calibration schema for the antenna losses. This reprocessing has allowed the assessment of an improved performance benchmark, a better understanding of the observations, and the preparation of a new version (v700) of the Level-1 processor with further potential.


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Document Type

Conference report

Language

English

Publisher

Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE)

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