Radiometric performance of the SMOS reference radiometersassessment after one year of operation

IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing

Volumn 50, Issue 5 PART 1, 2012, Pages 1367-1383

  Kainulainen, Juha ^a   Colliander, Andreas ^b   Closa, Josep ^b   Martin Neira, Manuel ^c   Oliva, Roger ^d   Buenadicha, Guillermo ^d   Alcaine, Pilar Rubiales ^b   Hakkarainen, Anssi ^a   Hallikainen, Martti T ^a  

^a AALTO UNIVERSITY   (Finland)

^b CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^c EUROPEAN SPACE AGENCY   (Netherlands)

^d EUROPEAN SPACE AGENCY   (Spain)

Author keywords

Calibration; radiometry; remote sensing; stability; synthetic aperture imaging

Indexed keywords

ANTENNA TEMPERATURE; BRIGHTNESS TEMPERATURES; DESIGN REQUIREMENTS; EUROPEAN SPACE AGENCY; FIRST YEAR; MEASUREMENT DATA; NOISE INJECTION RADIOMETER; ORBITAL OPERATIONS; RADIOMETRIC PERFORMANCE; RADIOMETRIC RESOLUTION; SOIL MOISTURE AND OCEAN SALINITY (SMOS); SYNTHETIC APERTURE IMAGING; THERMAL MODEL;

CALIBRATION; CONVERGENCE OF NUMERICAL METHODS; RADIOMETERS; REMOTE SENSING; SALINITY MEASUREMENT; SOIL MOISTURE;

RADIOMETRY;

ANTENNA; BRIGHTNESS TEMPERATURE; IMAGE RESOLUTION; PERFORMANCE ASSESSMENT; RADIOMETER; RADIOMETRIC SURVEY; REMOTE SENSING; SATELLITE DATA; SMOS;

EID: 84860279664     PISSN: 01962892     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TGRS.2011.2177273     Document Type: Article

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