• 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 ...
    • Characterization of the SMOS instrumental error pattern correction over the ocean 

      Gourrion, J.; Sabia, R.; Portabella, M.; Tenerelli, J.; Guimbard, S.; Camps Carmona, Adriano José (2012-07)
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      The Soil Moisture and Ocean Salinity (SMOS) mission was launched on November 2nd, 2009 aiming at providing sea surface salinity (SSS) estimates over the oceans with frequent temporal coverage. The detection and mitigation ...
    • Impact of the local oscillator calibration on the SMOS sea surface salinity maps 

      Gabarró Prats, Carolina; González-Gambau, Verónica; Martínez, J.; Guimbard, S.; Gourrion, J.; Piles Guillem, Maria; Portabella, M.; Font, J. (Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE), 2012)
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      The Local Oscillators (LO) of the Microwave Imaging Radiometer using Aperture Synthesis (MIRAS) onboard the Soil Moisture and Ocean Salinity (SMOS) satellite are used to maintain the operating frequency of the 69 receivers. ...
    • Issues in the balancing of the SMOS ocean salinity trieval cost function 

      Sabia, Roberto; Camps, A.; Portabella, M.; Talone, Marco; Ballabrera, J.; Gourrion, J.; Aretxabaleta, A.L.; Gabarró Prats, Carolina; Font, J. (SARTI (Technological Development Centre of Remote Acquisition and Data processing Systems), 2010-03-10)
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    • SMOS CP34 soil moisture and ocean salinity maps 

      Font Ferré, Jordi; Gabarró Prats, Carolina; Ballabrera Poy, Joaquim; Turiel Martínez, Antonio; Martínez, Justino; Umbert, M.; Pérez, Francisco C.; Hoareau, N.; Portabella, M.; González Gambau, Veronica; Gourrion, J.; Guimbard, S.; Piles Guillem, Maria; Camps Carmona, Adriano José; Vall-Llossera Ferran, Mercedes Magdalena (2012)
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      This paper presents the soil moisture and ocean salinity maps from the SMOS mission generated operationally by the Spanish SMOS Level 3 and 4 data processing center (CP34) and experimentally by the SMOS Barcelona Expert ...
    • SMOS L3 salinity performances at decreasing sea surface temperature 

      Sabia, R.; Fernández Prieto, D.; Portabella, M.; Gourrion, J.; Font Ferré, Jordi; Talone, Marco; Camps Carmona, Adriano José (2012)
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      A study of the latitudinal trend of the retrieved salinity performances along a Southwards transect has been performed, analyzing the trade-off between geophysical effects in cold seawater and the concomitant temporal ...