The Soil Moisture and Ocean Salinity (SMOS) space mission is currently undergoing phase-B studies at the European Space Agency. The SMOS payload is an L-band interferometric radiometer based on a two-dimensional aperture synthesis concept. This paper presents the first images obtained by a demonstrator of the SMOS instrument over land surfaces at the Avignon test site in 1999
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Geoscience and Remote Sensing, IEEE Transactions on
(Volume:40
,
Issue:
3
)
Date of Publication: Mar 2002