Extended ocean salinity error budget analysis within the smos mission

International Geoscience and Remote Sensing Symposium (IGARSS)

Volumn 4, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 534-537

  Sabia, R ^a   Camps, A ^a,b   Vall llossera, M ^a   Talone, M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITAT POLITÈCNICA DE CATALUNYA   (Spain)

^b INSTITUT D ESTUDIS ESPACIALS DE CATALUNYA IEEC   (Spain)

Author keywords

Error Budget; Retrieval; Salinity; SMOS

Indexed keywords

ERRORS; GEOLOGY; OCEANOGRAPHY; REMOTE SENSING; SOIL MOISTURE; SURFACE WATERS;

ERROR BUDGETS; EXTENDED VERSIONS; RELATIVE DEGREES; RETRIEVAL; SALINITY; SEA SURFACE SALINITY MAPS; SMOS; SOIL MOISTURE AND OCEAN SALINITY MISSIONS;

BUDGET CONTROL;

EID: 67649768567     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/IGARSS.2008.4779776     Document Type: Conference Paper

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