News - Operational News

SMOS data distribution resumed

SMOS data distribution to end users was resumed on 12 March 2024 after confirmation of the adequate quality of the current

Document - General Reference

Earth-Explorers-Satellites-to-understand-our-changing-Earth.pdf

This eight-page brochure provides an overview of the Earth Explorers currently in orbit and those under development.

News - Success Stories

Satellite data predicts lower wheat crop yield

  Title: Current drought situation in Ebro basin Description: The SMOS soil-moisture-based drought monitor is updated monthly

Event - Workshop

IDEAS+ Cal/Val Workshop 7

Regular workshops are held every nine months with the whole IDEAS+ Task 3-Cal/Val team in order to review the status of current

Activity - Instrument characterisation and algorithm studies

ESA satellites and instruments calibration landing page

Data Outages: Information currently not available online.  

Mission - Earth Explorers

SMOS product availability

+ NIR + Long     LO + FTT     LO + Electrical Stability     LO + NIR + Long + FTT     LO + Short     LO + Long + Short Current

Event - Training

EO Summer School 4

Keynote lectures on global change issues are also given to discuss the current state of the science of global change and

News - General News

ESA's excellent Earth Explorer missions extended to 2025

Acting like the spinning conductor in a bicycle dynamo, it generates electrical currents and thus the continuously changing

News - Events and Proceedings

SMOS data advances space weather and ionospheric research

Title: Tracking the solar activity cycle using SMOS data Description: This graph shows the “rise” of our current solar activity

News - Operational News

SMOS data outage since 22 February 2024

spacecraft has been back in nominal mode since 25 February and on 27 February, the MIRAS instrument was switched on and is currently

Document - General Reference

SAR Ocean Feature Catalogue

Event - Training

EO Summer School 3

In line with observations it shows anti-cyclonically rotating surface currents and cyclonically rotating bottom currents.

Document - General Reference

The Nine Candidate Earth Explorer Missions - Magnetometry Mission

This report for assessment addresses the Magnetometry mission when it was selected with other nine Earth Explorer missions as a potential candidate for Phase A study.

Tools - Processing

SMOS Toolbox

Visualisation functionalities have been upgraded, the current version of the SMOS Toolbox is able to display SMOS Level 1C

Event - Training

EO Summer School 5

Keynote lectures on global change issues are also given to discuss the current state of the science of global change and

News - Data Release news

SMOS sea ice thickness reprocessed data now available

baseline v724 and with the latest level 3 and 4 sea ice thickness processors baseline v3.3 and v204 respectively, which are currently

Tools - Visualisation

SMOS Data Viewer

Download the current version, 1.8.5: A Java virtual machine is included with these downloads: Download Windows install Download

Document - Newsletter

SMOS-Newsletter-14-December-2017.pdf

This is the 14th SMOS newsletter, detailing SMOS data uses and meetings/seminars concerning this data.

Mission - Earth Explorers

SMOS Objectives

SMOS Science The SMOS mission is a direct response to the current lack of global observations of soil moisture and ocean

Document - General Reference

Candidate-Earth-Explorers-in-Assessment-Phase.pdf

This flyer gives a quick overview on the candidate Earth Explorers missions in assessment phase.