SMOSHiLat: microwave L-band emissions of organic-rich soils in the Northern cold climate zone in support of the SMOS Mission

• Main Authors: Bircher, Simone, Richaume, Philippe, Demontoux, François, Mahmoodi, Ali, Jonard, François, Weihermüller, Lutz, Andreasen, Mie, Ikonen, Jaakko, Vehviläinen, Juho, Razafindratsima, Stephen, Rautiainen, Kimmo, Schwank, Mike, Mialon, Arnaud, Wigneron, Jean-Pierre, Kerr, Yann H.
• Other Authors: Centre d'études spatiales de la biosphère (CESBIO), Institut de Recherche pour le Développement (IRD)-Université Toulouse III - Paul Sabatier (UT3), Université de Toulouse (UT)-Université de Toulouse (UT)-Institut national des sciences de l'Univers (INSU - CNRS)-Observatoire Midi-Pyrénées (OMP), Université de Toulouse (UT)-Université de Toulouse (UT)-Institut national des sciences de l'Univers (INSU - CNRS)-Centre National d'Études Spatiales Toulouse (CNES)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Météo-France-Institut national des sciences de l'Univers (INSU - CNRS)-Centre National d'Études Spatiales Toulouse (CNES)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Météo-France-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Institut National de Recherche pour l’Agriculture, l’Alimentation et l’Environnement (INRAE), Université Sciences et Technologies - Bordeaux 1 (UB), Forschungszentrum Jülich GmbH, Helmholtz-Gemeinschaft = Helmholtz Association, Department of Geosciences and Natural Resource Management Copenhagen (IGN), Faculty of Science Copenhagen, University of Copenhagen = Københavns Universitet (UCPH)-University of Copenhagen = Københavns Universitet (UCPH), Finnish Meteorological Institute (FMI), Swiss Federal Institute for Forest, Snow and Landscape Research WSL, Interactions Sol Plante Atmosphère (UMR ISPA), Institut National de la Recherche Agronomique (INRA)-Ecole Nationale Supérieure des Sciences Agronomiques de Bordeaux-Aquitaine (Bordeaux Sciences Agro), European Space Agency (ESA). INT.
• Format: Conference Object
• Language: English
• Published: HAL CCSD 2015
• Subjects: [SDU.STU]Sciences of the Universe [physics]/Earth Sciences; [SPI.SIGNAL]Engineering Sciences [physics]/Signal and Image processing; [SPI.ELEC]Engineering Sciences [physics]/Electromagnetism; [SDE.MCG]Environmental Sciences/Global Changes; [SDU.ENVI]Sciences of the Universe [physics]/Continental interfaces; environment; Islay; Sodankylä
• Online Access: https://hal.inrae.fr/hal-02742610

International audience L-band microwave (1.4 GHz) brightness temperature (TB) observations of the Soil Moisture and Ocean Salinity (SMOS) satellite are used to retrieve global soil moisture data, taking advantage of the large difference between the dielectric constant of dry soil and water. The retr...