Sea Surface Salinity Retrieval within the ESA Soil Moisture and Ocean Salinity (SMOS) Mission
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The SMOS (Soil Moisture and Ocean Salinity) mission will provide from 2007 onwards global maps of soil moisture over land and sea surface salinity over ocean. The radiometry group of the Technical University of Catalonia (UPC) in Barcelona has been involved either in the definition of the SMOS single payload, MIRAS (Microwave Imaging Radiometer by Aperture Synthesis), or in the organization of field campaigns devoted to the comprehension of different parameters affecting the brightness temperature at L-band. At present, many efforts are focused on the issues relevant to the salinity and soil moisture retrieval procedures. In this paper the work related to the ocean salinity is summarized.
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