A New L-Band Passive Radiometer for Earth Observation: SMOS-High Resolution (SMOS-HR)

N. J. RODRIGUEZ-FERNANDEZ; E. ANTERRIEU; F. CABOT; J. BOUTIN; G. PICARD; T. PELLARIN; O. MERLIN; J. VIALARD; F. VIVIER; J. COSTERASTE; B. PALACIN; R. RODRIGUEZ-SUQUET; T. AMIOT; A. KHAAZAL; B. ROUGE; J. M. MOREL; M. COLOM; T. DECOOPMAN; N. JEANNIN; R. CAUJOLLE; M. J. ESCORIHUELA; A. Al BITAR; P. RICHAUME; A. MIALON; C. SUERE; Y. H. KERR

doi:10.1109/IGARSS39084.2020.9324685

A New L-Band Passive Radiometer for Earth Observation: SMOS-High Resolution (SMOS-HR)

N. J. RODRIGUEZ-FERNANDEZ
, E. ANTERRIEU
, F. CABOT
, J. BOUTIN
, G. PICARD
, T. PELLARIN
, O. MERLIN
, J. VIALARD
, F. VIVIER
, J. COSTERASTE
, B. PALACIN
, R. RODRIGUEZ-SUQUET
, T. AMIOT
, A. KHAAZAL
, B. ROUGE
, J. M. MOREL^*
, M. COLOM
, T. DECOOPMAN
, N. JEANNIN
, R. CAUJOLLE

M. J. ESCORIHUELA, A. Al BITAR, P. RICHAUME, A. MIALON, C. SUERE, Y. H. KERR

^*Corresponding author for this work

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Abstract

The European Space Agency (ESA) Soil Moisture and Ocean Salinity (SMOS) has been providing the longest consistent data record of passive L-band (1.4 GHz) observations for more than ten years. SMOS, as well as the NASA missions SMAP and Aquarius have demonstrated the interest of L-band observations for land, ocean and cryosphere studies. The continuity of L-band observations must be assured taking into account that the spatial resolution (∼ 40 km) of SMOS and SMAP is too coarse for some applications. Disaggregation strategies can be implemented but using airborne data, we show that the quality of the downscaled data cannot match that of an instrument with higher native resolution. The goal of the SMOS-HR (High Resolution) mission is to ensure the continuity of L-band observations while increasing the native resolution to 10 km. SMOS-HR will carry an array of ∼ 230 antennas to perform aperture synthesis. The antenna distribution has been optimized to reduce the aliasing in the reconstructed images and SMOS-HR will incorporate advanced on-board Radio Frequency Interferences (RFI) mitigation techniques.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	2020 IEEE International Geoscience and Remote Sensing Symposium, IGARSS 2020, Proceedings
Publisher	IEEE
Pages	5978-5981
Number of pages	4
ISBN (Electronic)	9781728163741
ISBN (Print)	9781728163758
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1109/IGARSS39084.2020.9324685
Publication status	Published - 26 Sept 2020
Externally published	Yes

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L-Band
Passive Radiometry
Soil Moisture and Ocean Salinity satellite
Vegetation Optical Depth

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RODRIGUEZ-FERNANDEZ, N. J., ANTERRIEU, E., CABOT, F., BOUTIN, J., PICARD, G., PELLARIN, T., MERLIN, O., VIALARD, J., VIVIER, F., COSTERASTE, J., PALACIN, B., RODRIGUEZ-SUQUET, R., AMIOT, T., KHAAZAL, A., ROUGE, B., MOREL, J. M., COLOM, M., DECOOPMAN, T., JEANNIN, N., ... KERR, Y. H. (2020). A New L-Band Passive Radiometer for Earth Observation: SMOS-High Resolution (SMOS-HR). In 2020 IEEE International Geoscience and Remote Sensing Symposium, IGARSS 2020, Proceedings (pp. 5978-5981). Article 9324685 IEEE. https://doi.org/10.1109/IGARSS39084.2020.9324685

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A New L-Band Passive Radiometer for Earth Observation: SMOS-High Resolution (SMOS-HR). / RODRIGUEZ-FERNANDEZ, N. J.; ANTERRIEU, E.; CABOT, F. et al.
2020 IEEE International Geoscience and Remote Sensing Symposium, IGARSS 2020, Proceedings. IEEE, 2020. p. 5978-5981 9324685.

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