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5th International SMOS Science Workshop
Agenda
November 29th-December 1st, 2004
ESA-ESRIN, Frascati Italy
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| Monday November 29th |
| Introduction (Chair J. Benveniste) |
| Welcome | V. Liebig |
| Introduction and aim of the workshop | Y. Kerr |
| Workshop Organisation | Jérôme Benveniste |
| Status of the projects (Chair Y. Kerr) |
| SMOS activities | M. Martin Neira |
| Acquarius/SAC-D Mission Status | G. Lagerloef, F. Colomb et al |
| Hydros Pathfinder Mission | D. Entekhabi |
| Towards a Road map (Chair D. Levine): |
| Science preparation programme at ESA | M. Berger |
| Open issues to be addressed in splinter on Ocean salinity | J. Font, J. Boutin |
| Open issues to be addressed in splinter on Soil moisture | E. Njoku |
| Open issues to be addressed in splinter on Cal Val | P. Waldteufel |
| Cal Val Splinter Agenda | F. Cabot, N. Reul, G. Lagerloef, T. Delcroix et al |
| Field campaigns | P. Wursteisen |
| Status Report | P. Wursteisen |
| Cosmos Campaign Instrument and Aircraft Status | N. Skou |
| Splinter session presentation and organisation | Y. Kerr |
| Tuesday November 30th |
| Organisation of splinters (Chair M. Berger) |
| Goals and expected outcome | Y. Kerr |
| Issues to be addressed (retrieval, auxiliary data, calibration, ground segment) |
| SMOS | Y. Kerr |
| Aquarius | G. Lagerloef |
| Hydros | D. Entekhabi |
| Splinter session A |
| Splinter sessions |
| Splinter 1: Calibration and Validation, Chair G. Lagerloef |
| Surface Validation Data | |
| Calibration - What We Need, Where We Stand | F. Cabot et al |
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Trials and tribulations of the calibration and validation scheme for SMOS: how to relate what is necessary to what is possible? Discussion on the on-board calibration, vicarious calibration and synergistic approaches with HYDROS and Aquarius. |
| Keynote speaker F. Cabot |
| Splinter 2: Image Reconstruction Chair N. Skou |
| Image Reconstruction | M. Peichli and N. Skou |
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What is the optimal path and were do we stand regarding it. How our knowledge of the actual reconstruction may impact the ground segment. Other specific issues (i.e.. sun glint, Faraday rotation and/or galactic background, RFI, etc.) |
| Keynote speakers M. Peichl / N. Skou |
| Poster Session and demo, Chair T. Jackson |
| Main results achieved this last few months |
| Brightness Temperature Product for Browsing | P. Waldteufel (IPSL/SA), Y. Kerr (CESBIO) |
| The Earth Observation Swath and Orbit Visualisation Tool, ESOV | M. Zundo |
| Smos Geolocation Using Isolated Islands | P. Waldteufel (IPSL/SA), Y. Kerr (CESBIO) |
| Assimilation of Remote Sensing Data to Monitor the Terrestrial Carbon Cycle: the Carbon Observatory of Geoland | J.-C. Calvet et al |
| On the Potential of Multi-temporal Satellite Records Analysis for Soil Wetness Monitoring | T. Lacava et al |
| Oznet - the Australian Moisture Monitoring Network | Jeffrey Walker, Jetse Kalma, Andrew Western, Garry Willgoose and Paul Houser |
| Plmr+ - Polarimetric L-band Multibeam Radiometer (+ Thermal Imager and Other Instruments) | Jeffrey Walker, Rodger Grayson, Jetse Kalma, Jörg Hacker and Mal Heron |
| Wiggle Problem and Surface Scattering | N. Skou |
| Time and Space Scales for Sea Surface Salinity in the Tropical Oceans (poster) | T. Delcroix |
| Time and Space Scales for Sea Surface Salinity in the Tropical Oceans (slides) | T. Delcroix |
| Scientific Synergy Between Smos and Aquarius/SAC-D: Steps Towards Consolidated Sea Surface Salinity Measurements from Space | |
| Surface Autonomous Conductivity and Temperature (surfact) | Antonio Lourenço, Jacqueline Boutin, Jacqueline Etcheto, Thierry Monglon and Jean Jacques Naudin |
| A Simple Modeling of the Bare Soil Emission At L-band | M. Escorihuela et al |
| Sea Surface Salinity Retrieval: Preliminary Results | J. Boutin, J.L. Vergely, P. Waldteufel |
| Retrieving Soil Moisture Under Forests With L-band Spaceborne Instruments: Simulation of Perturbing Effects | A. della Vecchia et al |
| Ground-based Observation for AMSR/AMSR-E Soil Moisture Measurement Validation in Mongolia | Ichirow Kaihotsu and Toshio Koike |
| Inversion of Sea Surface Salinity from Satellite Data | Sylvain Michel, Bertrand Chapron, Nicolas Reul |
| Disturbing Effects in the Retrieval of Sea Salinity from Space at L-Band | N. Skou et al |
| Shaping Radiation Patterns of Low Profile L-Band Array Antennas | Benedikt Oswald, Kurt Roth, Hannes Fluhler |
| Fundamentals of MIRAS-SMOS Error Budget | F. Torres, I. Corbella, A. Camps, N. Duffo, M. Vall-llossera. |
| A simple method to generate pseudo-SSS images | Herraiz et al |
| A new semi-empirical model of sea surface emissivity used to retrieve salinity, wind speed, and wave height | C. Gabarró et al |
| Retrieving Salinity from the Plata Campaign STARRS Data | C. Gabarró et al |
| The coSMOS Airborne Campaign over the Valencia Anchor Station Area | E. Lopez-Baeza et al |
| In Parallel: SEPS hands on and demonstration |
| The SMOS End-to-end Performance Simulator | |
| The SMOS End-to-end Performance Simulator - Powerpoint presentation version, 14.3 MB | |
| Plenary Session, Chair J. Font |
| Outcome of Splinter 1 G. Lagerloef | |
| Outcome of Splinter 2 | N. Skou |
| General discussions | All |
| Preparation of splinters 3 and 4 | Y. Kerr |
| Adjournment |
| Wednesday December 1st |
| Splinter session B |
| Splinter 3: Soil Moisture | Chair E. Njoku |
| Introduction to Splinter Session on Soil Moisture | P. Ferrazzoli |
| International Soil Moisture Missions Working Group | |
| Splinter 4: Ocean Salinity, Chair J. Boutin |
| These splinters started with a set of questions to be
addressed as much as possible including:
- Special effects to be tackled now (list to be developed from suggestions from science and project)
- Products? What is required - should this be separated for soil moisture and ocean salinity?
- Is it possible to try to define some sort of a standard with regard to forward models, dielectric models
- What are the necessary studies and campaigns
- International working group finalisation
- Draft requirements for validation (approaches, sites, simulations and data bases, etc.)
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| Synergetic Aspects and Auxiliary Data Concepts for Sea Surface Salinity Measurements from Space (AO/1-4505/03/NL/CB) | N. Reul, M. Srokosz et al |
| Keynote speaker Soil Moisture P. Ferrazzoli |
| Soil Moisture Splinter | Keynote Talk - P. Ferrazzoli |
| Keynote speaker Ocean Salinity E. Obligis |
| Sea Surface Salinity Retrieval and L2 Calibration Issues | E. Obligis et al |
| Plenary concluding session (chair Y. Kerr) |
| Outcome of Splinter 3 | E. Njoku |
| Outcome of Splinter 4 | J. Boutin |
| General discussions | All |
| Concluding Remarks | Y. Kerr |
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