End to end study of the Chinese salinity mission

The Ocean Salinity (OS) Satellite mission of the State Oceanic Administration of China dedicates to an “all-weather” estimate of high-quality global SSS and to reduce geophysical errors due to surface roughness and sea surface temperature from space. The payload of this mission has the capability of L/C/K multi-frequency passive and L-band active measurement, and can implement the simultaneously remote sensing of SSS, SST, WS and atmospheric parameters. The OS Satellite data processing prototype software has been developed to simulate the instrument and to generate Level 0 to Level 2 data. Based on the prototype software, the end to end study of the OS Satellite mission is performed and the errors of simultaneous retrieval of multiparameters are analyzed and noises level and stability requirement of instruments are estimated.