The SMOS Mission: New Tool for Monitoring Key Elements ofthe Global Water Cycle

By Yann H. Kerr, P. Waldteufel, J. Wigneron, S. Delwart, F. Cabot, Jacqueline Boutin, M. Escorihuela, Jordi Font, Nicolas Reul, C. Gruhier and 5 more. Proceedings of the IEEE, 2010

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• Assimilation of remote sensing into crop growth models: Current status and perspectives (2019, background): “…biophysical parameters of interest for monitoring the land surface (and in particular, croplands), such as soil moisture (SM) (Njoku et al., 2003; Kerr et al., 2010; Liu et al., 2012; Dorigo et al., 2017), leaf area index (LAI) (Knyazikhin et al., 1998; Yang et al., 2006; Tian et al., 2002a,b),…”
• Coupling between the terrestrial carbon and water cycles—a review (2019, methodology): “Surface soil moisture has been retrieved from satellite microwave sensors since 1979 with both passive and active sensors (Entekhabi et al 2010, Kerr et al 2010, Dorigo et al 2017), and model estimates of soil moisture down to 2 m are also available from a wide range of land–surface models, global…”
• SMOS: The Challenging Sea Surface Salinity Measurement From Space (2010, background): “A companion paper in this issue [9] introduces the SMOS science goals, provides an overall system and mission analysis and, besides detailing the soil moisture component of the mission, describes the ocean salinity mapping objectives that SMOS has established, and what are the requirements this pose”
• The SMOS Soil Moisture Retrieval Algorithm (2012, background): “SMOS characteristics are given in [32]–[34] and are summarized in this section.”
• Downscaling SMOS-Derived Soil Moisture Using MODIS Visible/Infrared Data (2011, background): “at different polarizations and incidence angles, with a spatial resolution of ∼50 km [4].”
• Validation of Soil Moisture and Ocean Salinity (SMOS) Soil Moisture Over Watershed Networks in the U.S. (2012, background): “THE EUROPEAN Space Agency (ESA) Soil Moisture and Ocean Salinity (SMOS) [1], [2] satellite utilizes technology and algorithm approaches for soil moisture retrieval that have not been employed on satellite platforms in the past.”
• Triple Collocation-Based Merging of Satellite Soil Moisture Retrievals (2017, background): “Since then, the number of available instruments has been growing steadily, including missions that are specifically dedicated to soil moisture monitoring such as the Soil Moisture and Ocean Salinity (SMOS) [2] and the Soil Moisture Active Passive (SMAP) mission [3].”