Aiming to provide sea surface salinity (SSS) maps with a spatio-temporal averaged accuracy of 0.1 psu, the SMOS community is increasingly focusing on the determination of a robust inversion scheme to enable SSS retrieval from L-band brightness temperature data. In the framework of the "Synergetic Aspects and Auxiliary Data Concepts for Sea Surface Salinity Measurements from Space" project, efforts have been oriented towards a quantitative analysis of SSS retrieval once different auxiliary data are plugged into the minimization procedure, providing statistical distributions of the spatio-temporal averaged errors.
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Geoscience and Remote Sensing Symposium, 2005. IGARSS '05. Proceedings. 2005 IEEE International
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Date of Conference: 25-29 July 2005