Ten Years of Remote Sensing at Barcelona Expert Center

Special Issue of Remote Sensing: Ten Years of Remote Sensing at Barcelona Expert Center The Barcelona Expert Centre (BEC) (http://bec.icm.csic.es) is a joint initiative between the Spanish Research Council (CSIC) and the Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya (UPC). It was created in 2007 to provide s...

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Main Authors: Martínez, Justino, González Gambau, Verónica, Gabarró, Carolina, Olmedo, Estrella
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute 2020
Subjects:
SAR
Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/10261/216401
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Summary:Special Issue of Remote Sensing: Ten Years of Remote Sensing at Barcelona Expert Center The Barcelona Expert Centre (BEC) (http://bec.icm.csic.es) is a joint initiative between the Spanish Research Council (CSIC) and the Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya (UPC). It was created in 2007 to provide support to the Spanish SMOS (Soil Moisture and Ocean Salinity) mission activities. Nowadays, BEC activities cover a wide variety of topics: - Improvements on calibration, image reconstruction and stability of radiometric data. - Synergy of observations from different sensors and data sources. - Retrieval of geophysical variables: forward modeling and non-linear inversion. - Validation and quality control - Assimilation into atmospheric and ocean models. - Generation of added-value products at Levels 3 and 4. This Special Issue is mainly dedicated to publishing papers on new scientific results covering topics, such as: - Microwave radiometry, scatterometry, SAR, GNSS-R. - Sensor calibration. - Image reconstruction. - Ocean Remote Sensing: salinity, winds, sea ice, currents, temperature, etc. - Soil Moisture. - Retrieval algorithms. - SMOS Third Mission Reprocessing after 10 Years in Orbit https://doi.org/10.3390/rs12101645. - Deriving VTEC Maps from SMOS Radiometric Data https://doi.org/10.3390/rs12101604. - Real-time Reconstruction of Surface Velocities from Satellite Observations in the Alboran Sea https://doi.org/10.3390/rs12040724. - Assessment with Controlled In-Situ Data of the Dependence of L-Band Radiometry on Sea-Ice Thickness https://doi.org/10.3390/rs12040650. - Assessment of Multi-Scale SMOS and SMAP Soil Moisture Products across the Iberian Peninsula https://doi.org/10.3390/rs12030570. - Assimilation of Satellite Salinity for Modelling the Congo River Plume https://doi.org/10.3390/rs12010011. - Quantifying Tidal Fluctuations in Remote Sensing Infrared SST Observations https://doi.org/10.3390/rs11192313. - Copernicus Imaging Microwave Radiometer (CIMR) Benefits for the Copernicus Level 4 Sea-Surface ...