Toward an optimal smos ocean salinity inversion algorithm

IEEE Geoscience and Remote Sensing Letters

Volumn 6, Issue 3, 2009, Pages 509-513

  Gabarro, Carolina ^a,b   Portabella, Marcos ^c   Talone, Marco ^b,d   Font, Jordi ^a,b  

^a INSTITUT DE CIÈNCIES DEL MAR   (Spain)

^b Passeig Maritim de la Barceloneta   (Spain)

^c CSIC   (Spain)

^d UNIVERSITAT POLITÈCNICA DE CATALUNYA   (Spain)

Author keywords

Inversion algorithm; Salinity; SMOS

Indexed keywords

APRIORI; BAYESIAN; COMMUNITY IS; EUROPEAN SPACE AGENCY; GEOPHYSICAL PARAMETERS; INVERSION ALGORITHM; LOW SENSITIVITY; NON-CONSTRAINED; OCEAN SALINITY; SALINITY; SATELLITE MISSION; SMOS; SOIL MOISTURE AND OCEAN SALINITIES; SURFACE EMISSIVITY; SURFACE SALINITIES;

COST FUNCTIONS; COSTS; GEOLOGIC MODELS; GROUNDWATER; OCEANOGRAPHY; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS; SOCIETIES AND INSTITUTIONS; SOIL MOISTURE;

SALINITY MEASUREMENT;

EID: 67651183616     PISSN: 1545598X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/LGRS.2009.2018490     Document Type: Article

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