Smos esa earth observation missions earth online esa. The soil moisture and ocean salinity smos mission will be esas second earth explorer in orbit. Cci soil moisture assessment with smos soil moisture and. In this research, the active, passive and combined climate change initiative cci soil moisture sm products were evaluated in comparison with in situ sm. Smos esas soil moisture ocean salinity is a radio telescope in orbit. Remote sensing free fulltext use of smos l3 soil moisture. Global estimates of land surface water fluxes from smos and smap satellite soil moisture data. The project smos toolbox for snap smos box has been brought into life in order to support users of data acquired by esas soil moisture and ocean salinity mission snap and the smos box are user tools which esaesrin is providing free of charge to the earth observation community. The global smos level 3 daily soil moisture and brightness.
Smos is an esa explorer opportunity science mission, a technology demonstration satellite project in esas living planet program, in cooperation with cnes france and cdti center for technological and industrial development, madrid, spain. In addition the remote sensing images are required to be free. You need to click on the link in the automatic email in order to receive the access credentials. Level 1 smos data products are designed for scientific and operational users who need to work with calibrated miras instrument measurements, while level 2 smos data products are designed for scientific and operational users who need to work with geolocated soil moisture and sea surface salinity estimation as retrieved from level 1 dataset. The smos l3 soil moisture and l3 brightness temperature products are delivered using an open licence and free of charge using a web. Access to esa eo data copernicus space component data access. Smos surface soil moisture barcelona expert center. Smos science products view data product earth online esa.
The smv is provided as an open and free data access tool from nasas oak ridge. Detailed information on the esas soil moisture and ocean salinity smos earth explorer mission, on the relevant product format specifications and data processing algorithms, can be found on the esa earth online portal. Tools for working with soil moisture and ocean salinity smos satellite data perrygeosmos. The smos satellite carries a novel interferometric radiometer that operates in the lband microwave range to capture brightness temperature images. Known as esas water mission, smos will make global observations of soil moisture over land and seasurface salinity over the oceans to improve our understanding of the water cycle. The corresponding eo data collections are made available under a free dataset. The smos level 3 soil moisture was developed to take advantage of several revisits of the same point in 7 days. You can search and browse for any smos products openly, from the collections button at the top of this page, but you first. The smos box software is developed by brockmann consult under esa contract initiated by steven delwart estec. The cloudfree level 4 l4 soil moisture products v4 at 1 km resolution are generated from.
Global estimates of land surface water fluxes from smos. The smos l3 soil moisture and l3 brightness temperature products are delivered using an open licence and free of charge using a web application. How can i get the soil moisture products freely online. Where can i get the soil moisture products feely online. Esas soil moisture ocean salinity smos earth explorer mission is a radio telescope in orbit, but pointing back to earth not space. Its microwave imaging radiometer using aperture synthesis miras radiometer picks up faint microwave emissions from earths surface to map levels of soil moisture, sea surface salinity, sea ice thickness and others geophysical variable such as wind speed over. These images are used to derive global maps of soil moisture every three days, achieving an accuracy of 4% at a spatial resolution of about 50 km. Sometimes the automatic email may also be trapped in your spam or. You can also download level 3 and 4 smos surface soil moisture from the catds centre.
It will be very kind of you who can provide me some useful information about soil. Please register for access to the requested data esa cci. For higherlevel sea surface salinity and soil moisture data products users. The goal of this study was to validate soil moisture data from soil moisture ocean salinity smos using two in situ databases for pernambuco state, located in. Smos level 1 and level 2 science data products are accessible online to all users, free of charge.
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