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

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

Mission - Earth Explorers

SMOS product availability

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

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

Tools - Processing

SMOS Toolbox

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

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.

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

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 - Newsletter

SMOS-Newsletter-14-December-2017.pdf

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

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.

Document - Technical Note

MIRAS-anomalies-2013.pdf

This note briefly describes the anomalies experienced so far by MIRAS in flight, and the impact they may have over data production and possible degradation of the data itself.

Document - Newsletter

SMOS-Newsletter-1-May-2012.pdf

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

Document - General Reference

New-possibilities-for-science-ESAs-operational-Sentinel-missions.pdf

This is an article extracted from the ESA Bulletin Nr. 140.

Event - Training

EO Summer School 3

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

Document - Newsletter

SMOS-Newsletter-12-Feb-2017.pdf

This is the 12th SMOS newsletter, detailing SMOS data uses and meetings/seminars concerning this data.

Document - General Reference

Earth-Observation-Market-Development-Benefits-to-Industry.pdf

This article was published in the ESA Bulletin Nr. 125 : it describes the Earth Observation Market Development programme, an activity designed to foster the use of Earth Observation based geo-information services within various market sectors.