SMOS-IC: An Alternative SMOS Soil Moisture and Vegetation Optical Depth Product

SMOS-IC: An Alternative SMOS Soil Moisture and Vegetation Optical Depth Product

The main goal of the Soil Moisture and Ocean Salinity (SMOS) mission over land surfaces is the production of global maps of soil moisture (SM) and vegetation optical depth (τ) based on multi-angular brightness temperature (TB) measurements at L-band. The operational SMOS Level 2 and Level 3 soil moisture algorithms account for different surface effects, such as vegetation opacity and soil rough...

1 SMOS - IC : An alternative SMOS soil moisture and 2 vegetation optical depth product 3

The main goal of the Soil Moisture and Ocean Salinity (SMOS) mission over land surfaces 15 is the production of global maps of soil moisture (SM) and vegetation optical depth (τ) based on 16 multi-angular brightness temperature (TB) measurements at L-band. The operational SMOS Level 17 2 and Level 3 soil moisture algorithms account for different surface effects, such as vegetation 18 opacity an...

SMOS level 2 Processor for Soil Moisture

Comparing soil moisture retrievals from SMOS and ASCAT over France

The first products derived over France in 2010 from the L-band brightness temperatures (Tb) measured by the SMOS (Soil Moisture and Ocean Salinity) satellite, launched in November 2009, were compared with the surface soil moisture (SSM) estimates produced by the C-band Advanced Scatterometer, ASCAT, launched in 2006 on board METOP-A. SMOS and ASCAT SSM products were compared with the simulation...

Smos Smap Synergisms for the Retrieval of Soil Moisture

It is clear there is a dire need of both soil moisture measurements and sea surface salinity retrievals as they are key parameters of the Earth system. To access them in a global and reliable fashion it seems that – even if complemented by other measurements, L-band radiometry is currently the best choice. The advantages are linked to an optimal trade off between high sensitivity to soil moistu...