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• Mission - Earth Explorers

  

  Mission - Earth Explorers

  SMOS

  The Soil Moisture and Ocean Salinity (SMOS) mission is dedicated to making global observations of soil moisture over land and salinity over oceans

• Data - Other

  Data - Other

  EO Sign In registration

  Learn how to register an EO Sign In account, which is required to access some data and submit proposals for data.

• Data - Other

  Data - Other

  Data registration and proposals profile

  Access your profile to see your requested data products or registrations and proposals you have submitted. An active EO Sign In account is required.

• Mission - Heritage Missions

  

  Mission - Heritage Missions

  ERS

  The ERS programme was composed of two missions, ERS-1 and ERS-2, which together observed the Earth for 20 years, from 1991 to 2011.

• News - General News

  

  News - General News

  New SMOS infographic

  Learn more about the Soil Moisture and Ocean Salinity (SMOS) mission in our latest infographic

• Tools - Other

  

  Tools - Other

  Polar TEP

  The Polar Thematic Exploitation Platform enables access, processing, uploading, visualisation, manipulation and comparison of data over the polar regions.

• Document - General Reference, Product Handbook

  

  Document - General Reference, Product Handbook

  SMOS Multimedia Book

  Learn more about ESA's SMOS mission in the interactive SMOS Multimedia Book.

• Instrument - Spectrometers/Radiometers

  

  Instrument - Spectrometers/Radiometers

  ATSR

  The Along Track Scanning Radiometer (ATSR) on board ERS-1 and ERS-2 mission consisted of two instruments, an Infra-Red Radiometer and a Microwave Sounder.

• Instrument - Imaging Radars, Scatterometers

  

  Instrument - Imaging Radars, Scatterometers

  SAR (ERS)

  The Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR) instrument aboard ERS-1 and ERS-2 was capable of high precision change detection of surface heights.

• Instrument - Spectrometers/Radiometers

  

  Instrument - Spectrometers/Radiometers

  MWR (ERS)

  The microwave radiometer (MWR) instrument on board the ERS-1 and ERS-2 missions provided measurements of the integrated atmospheric water vapour column and cloud liquid water content.

• Instrument - Scatterometers

  

  Instrument - Scatterometers

  WS

  The Wind Scatterometer (WS) instrument, on board the ERS-1 and ERS-2 missions, obtained information on wind speed and direction over the sea surface.

• Document - Product Document

  Document - Product Document

  SMOS-level-2-Soil-Moisture-NRT-V200-release-note.pdf

  Read-me-first note for the release of the SMOS Level 2 Soil Moisture Near Real Time Neural Network (L2-SM-NRT-NN) data product version 200

• Document - Product Document

  Document - Product Document

  SMOS-Level-2-Ocean-Salinity-v662-release-note.pdf

  This note summarises the quality and major features of the SMOS Level 2 Sea Surface Salinity data products generated by version 662 of the Level 2OS Operational Processor (L2OS).

• Document - Product Document

  Document - Product Document

  SMOS-NRT-Product-Format.pdf

  This document describes the format of the SMOS NRTP products, and is intended for NRT product users.

• Document - Product Document

  Document - Product Document

  SMOS-NRT-BUFR-Specification.pdf

  This document provides the BUFR specification for the Level 1c SMOS NRT products.

• Document - Product Document

  Document - Product Document

  Read-me-first-note-for-the-release-of-the-SMOS-Level-1-data-products

  This note summarises the quality of the SMOS Level 1 data products generated by the version 620 of the Level 1 Operational Processor (L1OP) and by the version 620 of the Near Real Time (NRT) Processor which have been in operation from 5 May 2015.

• Document - Product Document

  Document - Product Document

  SMOS-L1c-Data-Processing-Models.pdf

  The main purpose of this document is to provide a detailed definition of the processes and algorithms contained in the L1b to L1c processing module.

• Document - Product Document

  Document - Product Document

  SMOS-L1a-Data-Processing-Models.pdf

  The main purpose of this document is to provide a detailed definition of the processes and algorithms contained in the Error Correction Module within the SMOS Level 1 Processor. This module is the first entry point to the processor, and is tasked with applying all the calibration procedures to the measured data (using ground and in-flight calibration).

• Document - Product Document

  Document - Product Document

  SMOS-L1-Aux-Data-Product-Specification.pdf

  This document is based mainly in the Level 1 Processor Prototype‟s SMOS and auxiliary product format documents

• Instrument - Altimeters

  

  Instrument - Altimeters

  RA (ERS)

  The Radar Altimeter (RA) was a Ku-band (13.8 GHz) nadir-pointing active microwave sensor, on board ERS-1 and ERS-2 missions, designed to measure echoes from ocean and ice surfaces.