The SMOS L3 mapping algorithm for sea surface salinity

IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing

Volumn 49, Issue 3, 2011, Pages 1032-1051

  Jordà, Gabriel ^a   Gomis, Damià ^a   Talone, Marco ^b  

^a INSTITUTO MEDITERRÁNEO DE ESTUDIOS AVANZADOS   (Spain)

^b UNIVERSITAT POLITÈCNICA DE CATALUNYA   (Spain)

Author keywords

Microwave radiometry; Observational errors; Optimal interpolation; Sea salinity; Soil moisture and ocean salinity (SMOS)

Indexed keywords

MICROWAVE RADIOMETRY; OBSERVATIONAL ERRORS; OPTIMAL INTERPOLATION; SEA SALINITY; SOIL MOISTURE AND OCEAN SALINITY (SMOS);

ALGORITHMS; CLIMATOLOGY; CONFORMAL MAPPING; CORRELATION METHODS; EXPERIMENTS; INTERPOLATION; MICROWAVES; MOISTURE DETERMINATION; OCEANOGRAPHY; OPTIMIZATION; RADIOMETERS; RADIOMETRY; SALINITY MEASUREMENT; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS; SOIL MOISTURE;

ERROR STATISTICS;

ALGORITHM; CLIMATOLOGY; CORRELATION; INTERPOLATION; MICROWAVE RADIOMETER; SATELLITE MISSION; SEA SURFACE SALINITY; STATISTICAL APPLICATION;

EID: 79952043152     PISSN: 01962892     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TGRS.2010.2068551     Document Type: Article

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