From field experiments to salinity products: a tribute to the contributions of Jordi Font to the SMOS mission

Camps, Adriano . et al.-- Special volume: Planet Ocean. Scientia Marina 80(Suppl.1) 2016.-- 14 pages, 20 figures [EN] This article summarizes some of the activities in which Jordi Font, research professor and head of the Department of Physical and Technological Oceanography, Institut de Ciències del...

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Published in:Scientia Marina
Main Authors: Camps, Adriano, Gabarró, Carolina, Torres, Francesc, Corbella, Ignasi, Duffo, Nuria, Turiel, Antonio, Portabella, Marcos, Ballabrera-Poy, Joaquim, González Gambau, Verónica, Martínez, Justino, Piles, María, Pablos, Miriam, Valencia, Enric
Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
Language:unknown
Published: Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas (España) 2016
Subjects:
SMOS
Radiometry
Interferometry
Calibration
Validation
Salinity
Soil moisture
Sea ice
GNSS-R
Radiometría
Calibración
Validación
Salinidad
Humedad del terreno
Hielo marino
Interferometría
Alta
Hielo
Misión
Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/10261/138206
https://doi.org/10.3989/scimar.04285.04A
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Summary:Camps, Adriano . et al.-- Special volume: Planet Ocean. Scientia Marina 80(Suppl.1) 2016.-- 14 pages, 20 figures [EN] This article summarizes some of the activities in which Jordi Font, research professor and head of the Department of Physical and Technological Oceanography, Institut de Ciències del Mar (CSIC, Spanish National Research Council) in Barcelona, has been involved as co-Principal Investigator for Ocean Salinity of the European Space Agency Soil Moisture and Ocean Salinity (SMOS) Earth Explorer Mission from the perspective of the Remote Sensing Lab at the Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya. We have probably left out some of his many contributions to salinity remote sensing, but we hope that this review will give an idea of the importance of his work. We focus on the following issues: 1) the new accurate measurements of the sea water dielectric constant, 2) the WISE and EuroSTARRS field experiments that helped to define the geophysical model function relating brightness temperature to sea state, 3) the FROG 2003 field experiment that helped to understand the emission of sea foam, 4) GNSS-R techniques for improving sea surface salinity retrieval, 5) instrument characterization campaigns, and 6) the operational implementation of the Processing Centre of Levels 3 and 4 at the SMOS Barcelona Expert Centre [ES] Este artículo resume algunas de las actividades en las que Jordi Font, profesor de investigación y jefe del Departamento de Física y Tecnología Oceanográfica, del Institut de Ciències del Mar (CSIC) en Barcelona, ha estado desarrollando como co-Investigador Principal de la parte de la misión SMOS de la ESA, una misión Earth Explorer, desde la perspectiva del Remote Sensing Lab, de la Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya. Seguramente, estamos olvidando algunas de sus muchas contribuciones a la teledetección de la salinidad, pero esperamos que esta revisión dé una idea de la importancia de su trabajo. Este artículo se focaliza en los siguientes puntos: 1) las medidas de alta calidad de la ...

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