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    • A new space technology for ocean observation: the SMOS mission 

      Font Ferré, Jordi; Ballabrera Poy, Joaquim; Camps Carmona, Adriano José; Corbella Sanahuja, Ignasi; Duffo Ubeda, Núria; Durán Martínez, Israel; Emelianov Kolomitski, Mikhail; Enrique González, Luis; Fernández Gallego, Pedro; Gabarró Prats, Carolina; González, Cristina; González, Veronica; Gourrion, J.; Guimbard, S.; Hoareau, N.; Julià, A; Kalaroni, S.; Konstantinidou, Anna; Aretxabaleta, L.; Martínez, Justino; Miranda, Jorge Miguel; Monerris Belda, Alessandra; Montero, Sergio; Mourre, B.; Pablos Hernández, Miriam; Pérez Villar, Fernando; Piles Guillem, Maria; Portabella, M.; Sabia, R.; Salvador, Joaquin; Talone, Marco; Torres Torres, Francisco; Turiel Martínez, Antonio; Vall-Llossera Ferran, Mercedes Magdalena; Villarino Villarino, Ramón (2012)
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      Capability for sea surface salinity observation was an important gap in ocean remote sensing in the last few decades of the 20th century. New technological developments during the 1990s at the European Space Agency led to ...

    • Calibration of the MIRAS Radiometers 

      Corbella Sanahuja, Ignasi; Torres Torres, Francisco; Duffo Ubeda, Núria; Durán Martínez, Israel; González Gambau, Verónica; Oliva Balagué, Roger; Closa, Josep; Martín Neira, Manuel (Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE), 2018-12-21)
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      The microwave imaging radiometer with aperture synthesis (MIRAS) is formed by 69 total power radiometers, of which three are the noise-injection type. Their calibration is reviewed on the basis of the data gathered during ...

    • Contribution to advanced sensor development for passive imaging of the Earth 

      Durán Martínez, Israel (Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya, 2017-11-20)
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      This work has been formally undertaken within the frame of the scholarship number BES-2012-053917 of 1 December 2012, by the "Secretario de Estado de Investigación del Ministerio de Economía y Competitividad" related to ...

    • Deriving VTEC maps from SMOS radiometric data 

      Rubino, Roselena; Duffo Ubeda, Núria; González Gambau, Verónica; Corbella Sanahuja, Ignasi; Torres Torres, Francisco; Durán Martínez, Israel; Martín Neira, Manuel (Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute (MDPI), 2020-05-01)
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      In this work, a new methodology is proposed in order to derive vertical total electron content (VTEC) maps from the radiometric measurements of the Soil Moisture and Ocean Salinity (SMOS) mission as an alternative approach ...

    • External calibration of MIRAS/SMOS Instrument Drift and SuperMIRAS Error Budget 

      Durán Martínez, Israel (Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya, 2013-04)
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      [ANGLÈS] This Master Thesis is a collection of all research activities developed to analyze the temperature drift of MIRAS instrument and perform amplitude calibration during the operational SMOS mission. Moreover, some ...

    • Impact of amplitude calibration errors on SMOS global images 

      Durán Martínez, Israel; Corbella Sanahuja, Ignasi; Torres Torres, Francisco; Duffo Ubeda, Núria; Oliva, Roger; Martín Neira, Manuel (Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE), 2016)
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      Some of the artifacts observed in SMOS brightness temperature images are originated in an inconsistency between correlation and antenna temperature calibration errors, which produces a multiplicative bias that scales with ...

    • Impact of antenna tuning on SMOS correlation loss 

      Torres Torres, Francisco; Durán Martínez, Israel; Corbella Sanahuja, Ignasi; Duffo Ubeda, Núria; Closa, Josep; Oliva, Roger; Martín-Neira, Manuel (Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE), 2016)
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      The Soil Moisture and Ocean Salinity (SMOS) mission by the European Space Agency (ESA) was launched in 2009 [1]. Since then, it has produced a continuous stream of valuable geophysical data over land, ice and ocean [2] ...

    • Impact of correlator efficiency errors on SMOS land-sea contamination 

      Corbella Sanahuja, Ignasi; Durán Martínez, Israel; Wu, Lin; Torres Canals, Francesc; Duffo Ubeda, Núria; Khazaal, Ali; Martín Neira, Manuel (2015-09-01)
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      Land-sea contamination observed in Soil Moisture and Ocean Salinity (SMOS) brightness temperature images is found to have two main contributions: the floor error inherent of image reconstruction and a multiplicative error ...

    • MIRAS calibration and performance: results from the SMOS in-orbit commissioning phase 

      Corbella Sanahuja, Ignasi; Torres Torres, Francisco; Duffo Ubeda, Núria; González Gambau, Veronica; Pablos Hernández, Miriam; Durán Martínez, Israel; Martín Neira, Manuel (IEEE Press. Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, 2011-09)
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      After the successful launching of the Soil Moisture and Ocean Salinity satellite in November 2009, continuous streams of data started to be regularly downloaded and made available to be processed. The first six months of ...

    • Mitigation of cross-polar antenna pattern errors in SMOS: simplified approach 

      Durán Martínez, Israel; Torres Torres, Francisco; Corbella Sanahuja, Ignasi; Duffo Ubeda, Núria; Lin, Wu; Martín Neira, Manuel (Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE), 2016)
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      This paper analyzes a simplified image reconstruction method that exclusively takes into account the dominant antenna pattern terms to model image inversion artifacts and mitigate SMOS polarimetric spatial bias over the ...

    • One-point microwave radiometer calibration 

      Corbella Sanahuja, Ignasi; Torres Torres, Francisco; Closa Soteras, Josep; Duffo Ubeda, Núria; Durán Martínez, Israel; González Gambau, Verónica; Martín Neira, Manuel (2020-03-01)
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      A method for internally calibrating microwave total power radiometers by using only one level of noise injection is presented. It is based on having a previous accurate characterization of the receiver noise temperature, ...

    • Practical issues on SMOS single antenna patterns 

      Wu, Lin; Durán Martínez, Israel; Torres Torres, Francisco; Corbella Sanahuja, Ignasi; Duffo Ubeda, Núria; Closa, Josep; Manrique, Rodrigo; Garcia, Quiterio; Oliva Balagué, Roger; Martín Neira, Manuel (2014)
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      This paper provides a wrap-up of some of the activities undertaken by SMOS L1 team to fine tune the instrument calibration and modeling that eventually has resulted into a SMOS full-polarimetric measurement and image ...

    • Radiometric performance of SMOS full polarimetric imaging 

      Wu, Lin; Torres Torres, Francisco; Corbella Sanahuja, Ignasi; Duffo Ubeda, Núria; Durán Martínez, Israel; Vall-Llossera Ferran, Mercedes Magdalena; Camps, Adiano; Delwart, Steven; Martín Neira, Manuel (2013-11)
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      This work has been conducted in the framework of several projects devoted to assess the performance of the Soil Moisture and Ocean Salinity (SMOS) mission full-pol measurement mode. Since its launch in November 2009, SMOS ...

    • Refining the methodology to correct the faraday rotation angle from SMOS measurements 

      Rubino, Roselena; Duffo Ubeda, Núria; González Gambau, Verónica; Corbella Sanahuja, Ignasi; Durán Martínez, Israel; Torres Torres, Francisco; Martín Neira, Manuel (Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE), 2019)
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      In this work, a refined methodology to correct the Faraday Rotation angle (FRA) for the SMOS mission is proposed. The method is based on calculating the FRA using the SMOS full-pol radiometric data to obtain VTEC maps ...

    • Residual calibration error impact on SMOS SLL performance 

      Torres Torres, Francisco; Corbella Sanahuja, Ignasi; Durán Martínez, Israel; Lin, Wu; Duffo Ubeda, Núria; Martín Neira, Manuel (Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE), 2014)
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      SMOS Side Lobe Level (SLL), which is caused by the limited coverage of the measured visibility samples in the frequency domain, is responsible for non-negligible radiometric errors at pixels placed close to large brightness ...

    • SMOS Flight external calibration and monitoring 

      Durán Martínez, Israel (Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya, 2010-07)
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      This project has been devoted to develop several tools to assess in-flight performance of the MIRAS SMOS amplitude calibration. It has been mainly focused to analyze the performance of current internal calibration by ...

    • SMOS image reconstruction quality assessment 

      Corbella Sanahuja, Ignasi; Torres Torres, Francisco; Wu, Lin; Duffo Ubeda, Núria; Durán Martínez, Israel; Martín Neira, Manuel (Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE), 2014)
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      After more than four years of operation, the SMOS (Soil Moisture and Ocean Salinity) European Space Agency (ESA) mission [1] has proven to be highly useful for a variety of scientific applications related to soil moisture ...

    • SMOS instrument performance after more than 8 years in orbit and lessons learnt for future L-band missions 

      Martín Neira, Manuel; Oliva Balagué, Roger; Corbella Sanahuja, Ignasi; Torres Torres, Francisco; Duffo Ubeda, Núria; Durán Martínez, Israel; Kainulainen, Juha; Closa Soteras, Josep; Zurita Campos, Alberto Manuel; Cabot, François; Khazaal, Ali; Anterrieu, E.; Barbosa, José; Tenerelli, Joseph; Díez, Raúl; Turiel, Antonio; González Gambau, Verónica (Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE), 2018)
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    • SMOS instrument performance and calibration after 6 years in orbit 

      Martín Neira, Manuel; Oliva, Roger; Corbella Sanahuja, Ignasi; Torres Torres, Francisco; Duffo Ubeda, Núria; Durán Martínez, Israel; Kainulainen, Juha; Closa, Josep; Zurita Campos, Alberto Manuel; Cabot, François; Khazaal, Ali; Anterrieu, E.; Barbosa, José; Tenerelli, Joseph (Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE), 2016)
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      ESA’s Soil Moisture and Ocean Salinity (SMOS) mission has been in orbit for over 6 years, and its Microwave Imaging Radiometer with Aperture Synthesis (MIRAS) in two dimensions keeps working well. The data for almost this ...

    • SMOS instrument performance and calibration after six years in orbit 

      Martín Neira, Manuel; Oliva, Roger; Corbella Sanahuja, Ignasi; Duffo Ubeda, Núria; Durán Martínez, Israel; Torres Torres, Francisco; Kainulainen, Juha; Closa, Josep; Zurita Campos, Alberto Manuel; Cabot, François; Khazaal, Ali; Anterrieu, E.; Barbosa, José; Tenerelli, Joseph; Turiel, Antonio; Delwart, Steven (2016-07-01)
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      ESA's Soil Moisture and Ocean Salinity (SMOS) mission, launched 2-Nov-2009, has been in orbit for over 6 years, and its Microwave Imaging Radiometer with Aperture Synthesis (MIRAS) in two dimensions keeps working well. The ...