Monitoring land surface soil moisture from multiangular SMOS observations

Jean-Pierre Wigneron (1) , Paolo Ferrazzoli (2) , Jean-Christophe Calvet (3) , Thierry Pellarin (3) , Philippe Waldteufel (4) , Yann H. Kerr (5)

1 Unité de bioclimatologie
2 Università degli Studi di Roma Tor Vergata [Roma] = University of Rome Tor Vergata
3 CNRM - Centre national de recherches météorologiques
4 IPSL (FR_636) - Institut Pierre-Simon-Laplace
5 CESBIO - Centre d'études spatiales de la biosphère

The main objective of the SMOS (Soil Moisture and Ocean Salinity) mission over the land surfaces, is to monitor soil moisture (SM) with a frequent (3-day revisit) and global coverage (ground resolution of similar to50 km). In this paper, we present some examples of the current activities aiming at developing and improving SM retrieval methods.

Mots clés: radiometer

Mots clés: soil moisture

Domaines: Traitement du signal et de l'image [eess.SP]

Jean-Pierre Wigneron, Paolo Ferrazzoli, Jean-Christophe Calvet, Thierry Pellarin, Philippe Waldteufel, et al.. Monitoring land surface soil moisture from multiangular SMOS observations. IEEE international geoscience and remote sensing symposium, IEEE Geoscience and Remote Sensing Society (GRSS). USA., Jul 2003, Toulouse, France. ⟨10.1109/IGARSS.2003.1293659⟩. ⟨hal-02763318⟩