Overview of the SMOS sea surface salinity prototype processor

IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing

Volumn 46, Issue 3, 2008, Pages 621-644

  Zine, Sonia ^a   Boutin, Jacqueline ^a   Font, Jordi ^b   Reul, Nicolas ^c   Waldteufel, Philippe ^d   Gabarró, Carolina ^b   Tenerelli, Joseph ^c   Petitcolin, François ^e   Vergely, Jean Luc ^e   Talone, Marco ^b   Delwart, Steven ^f  

^a MUSÉUM NATIONAL D'HISTOIRE NATURELLE   (France)

^b INSTITUT DE CIÈNCIES DEL MAR   (Spain)

^c IFREMER   (France)

^d CNRS   (France)

^e ACRI ST   (France)

^f EUROPEAN SPACE AGENCY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Microwave radiometry; Oceanography; Salinity

Indexed keywords

EARTH (PLANET); OCEANOGRAPHY; SALINITY MEASUREMENT; THERMAL EFFECTS;

MICROWAVE RADIOMETRY; SALINITY;

PROGRAM PROCESSORS;

EID: 40149091436     PISSN: 01962892     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TGRS.2008.915543     Document Type: Review

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