SMOS validation and the COSMOS campaigns

IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing

Volumn 46, Issue 3, 2008, Pages 695-703

  Delwart, Steven ^b   Bouzinac, Catherine ^b   Wursteisen, Patrick ^b   Berger, Michael ^b,c   Drinkwater, Mark ^a,b   Martín Neira, Manuel ^a,b   Kerr, Yann H ^a,d  

^a IEEE

^b EUROPEAN SPACE AGENCY   (Netherlands)

^c ESA ESRIN   (Italy)

^d CESBIO   (France)

Author keywords

Calibration; Moisture measurement; Radiometry; Remote sensing; Sea surface; Sea surface salinity (SSS); Soil; Soil moisture (SM); Soil moisture and ocean salinity (SMOS); Validation; Vicarious

Indexed keywords

CALIBRATION; RADIOMETRY; REMOTE SENSING; SALINITY MEASUREMENT;

MOISTURE MEASUREMENT; SEA SURFACE; SEA SURFACE SALINITY (SSS);

SOIL MOISTURE;

EID: 40149103661     PISSN: 01962892     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TGRS.2007.914811     Document Type: Article

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