The SMOS soil moisture retrieval algorithm

IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing

Volumn 50, Issue 5 PART 1, 2012, Pages 1384-1403

  Kerr, Yann H ^a   Waldteufel, Philippe ^b   Richaume, Philippe ^a   Wigneron, Jean Pierre ^c   Ferrazzoli, Paolo ^d   Mahmoodi, Ali ^e   Al Bitar, Ahmad ^a   Cabot, François ^a   Gruhier, Claire ^a   Juglea, Silvia Enache ^a   Leroux, Delphine ^a   Mialon, Arnaud ^a   Delwart, Steven ^f  

^a UNIVERSITÉ DE TOULOUSE   (France)

^b SERVICE D AÉRONOMIE DU CNRS   (France)

^c CEMAGREF   (France)

^d UNIVERSITY OF ROME TOR VERGATA   (Italy)

^e Array Systems Computing Inc   (Canada)

^f ESA ESRIN   (Italy)

Author keywords

Cal Val; model; retrievals; SMOS; soil moisture; vegetation opacity

Indexed keywords

BRIGHTNESS TEMPERATURES; CAL/VAL; EARTH EXPLORER; EARTH SURFACE; END USERS; EUROPEAN SPACE AGENCY; GEOPHYSICAL PRODUCTS; GROUND SEGMENTS; INCIDENCE ANGLES; ITERATIVE APPROACH; JOINT PROGRAMS; LEVEL 2; LEVEL-1; OPERATIONAL ALGORITHMS; QUALITY INDICES; RETRIEVAL ALGORITHMS; RETRIEVALS; SEA SURFACE SALINITY; SMOS; SOIL MOISTURE AND OCEAN SALINITY MISSIONS; SOIL MOISTURE RETRIEVALS; SURFACE EMISSIVITY; TEMPERATURE CORRECTION; THEORETICAL BASIS; VEGETATION OPACITY;

ALGORITHMS; COST FUNCTIONS; EARTH ATMOSPHERE; ELECTROMAGNETIC WAVE EMISSION; MODELS; OPACITY; POLES; SALINITY MEASUREMENT; SOIL MOISTURE; SURFACE ROUGHNESS; VEGETATION;

PARAMETER ESTIMATION;

ALGORITHM; EMISSIVITY; FREQUENCY-MAGNITUDE DISTRIBUTION; INTERFEROMETER; SEA SURFACE SALINITY; SEA SURFACE TEMPERATURE; SMOS; SOIL MOISTURE; SURFACE TEMPERATURE; SWATH BATHYMETRY;

EID: 84860281509     PISSN: 01962892     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TGRS.2012.2184548     Document Type: Article

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