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  • News - Thematic area articles

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    Monitoring water on Earth's surface

    ESA's Earth observation satellites are playing a leading role in furthering our understanding of how Earth's terrestrial hydrosphere is being influenced by humankind.

  • Document - Product Readme Note

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    SMOS-Wind-Data-Service-Read-Me-First-Note.pdf

    A Read Me First Note for the SMOS Wind Data Service (SMOS Near Real Time Sea Surface Wind Speed Processor)

  • News - Data Release news

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    Minor Update for the SMOS Near Real Time Sea Surface Wind Speed Processor

    An updated version of the SMOS Near Real Time Sea Surface Wind Speed Processor - Version 302 - was released on the 23 November 2022.

  • Event - Training

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    EO Summer School 6

    ESA's series of summer schools, on Monitoring of the Earth System, aims to promote the exploitation of Earth observation data.

  • News - Thematic area articles

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    Satellite data central to ocean monitoring

    Over 95% of Earth’s water is found in our oceans, and yet sadly, oceans are under stress from climate change and pollution. Monitoring our oceans is vital for Earth’s survival and satellites are the primary means of long-term and independent observation of our vast ocean bodies and their associated coastal zones.

  • Document - Product Document

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    L2OSv700_release_note_20220321.pdf

    This note summarises the quality of the SMOS Level 2 Sea Surface Salinity data products generated by version 7 of the Level 2 Processor.

  • Document - Product Document

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    SMOS-Level-2-Sea-Surface-Salinity-release-note-v700.pdf

    This note summarises the quality of the SMOS Level 2 Sea Surface Salinity data products generated by version 7 of the Level 2 Processor.

  • Campaign

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    DOMEX-1

    The purpose of the DOMEX experiment was to acquire the first combined, in-situ microwave emission measurements using C- and L-band radiometers.

  • Campaign

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    CoSMOS 2006

    ESA conducted an airborne campaign to map sea surface salinity named "CoSMOS-OS" that took place in April 2006 over the Norway Sea off the coast of Stavenger.

  • Campaign

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    CoSMOS 2005, 2007, 2008, 2010

    The Campaign for Validating the Operation of SMOS (coSMOS) was designed to acquire SMOS-like data so that the algorithms were fine-tuned and properly validated before the launch of SMOS mission in 2007.

  • Document - Newsletter

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    SMOS-Newsletter-1-May-2012.pdf

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

  • Document - Newsletter

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    SMOS-Newsletter-2-July-2012.pdf

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

  • Document - Newsletter

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    SMOS-Newsletter-3-October-2012.pdf

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

  • Document - Newsletter

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    SMOS-Newsletter-4-Feb-2013.pdf

    This is the 4th SMOS newsletter, detailing SMOS data uses and meetings/seminars concerning this data.

  • Document - Newsletter

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    SMOS-Newsletter-5-July-2013.pdf

    This is the 5th SMOS newsletter, detailing SMOS data uses and meetings/seminars concerning this data.

  • Document - Newsletter

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    SMOS-Newsletter-6-December-2013.pdf

    This is the 6th SMOS newsletter, detailing SMOS data uses and meetings/seminars concerning this data.

  • Document - Newsletter

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    SMOS-Newsletter-7-April-2014.pdf

    This is the 7th SMOS newsletter, detailing SMOS data uses and meetings/seminars concerning this data.

  • Document - Newsletter

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    SMOS-Newsletter-8-September-2014.pdf

    This is the 8th SMOS newsletter, detailing SMOS data uses and meetings/seminars concerning this data.

  • Document - Newsletter

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    SMOS-Newsletter-9-May-2015.pdf

    This is the 9th SMOS newsletter, detailing SMOS data uses and meetings/seminars concerning this data.

  • Document - Newsletter

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    SMOS-Newsletter-10-October-2015.pdf

    This is the 10th SMOS newsletter, detailing SMOS data uses and meetings/seminars concerning this data.