Ten Years of Remote Sensing at Barcelona Expert Center

• Format: eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Basel, Switzerland MDPI - Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute 2020
• Subjects: Geography; Research & information: general; 4D-Var; ABACUS gliders; Algerian Basin; altimetry; Angola Basin; Arctic; BEC; BEC SMOS products; calibration; CIMR; climatology; Congo River plume; copernicus marine service; cryosphere; data assimilation; data fusion; data merging; error correction; faraday rotation angle (FRA); image reconstruction; interferometric radiometry; Interferometry; internal tides; L-band; L-band radiometry; mediterranean sea; Mediterranean Sea; microwave remote sensing; MODIS; moisture patterns; moisture variability; ocean color; ocean salinity (SMOS); oceanography; physical oceanography; processing; radiometry; REMEDHUS; remote sensing; reprocessing; retrieval model validation; ROMS; root zone; satellite altimetry; satellite observations; satellite salinity; sea ice thickness; sea surface salinity; sea surface temperature; sensor calibration; signal decomposition; singularity analysis; SMAP; SMOS; soil moisture; Soil Moisture Active Passive (SMAP); Soil Moisture and Ocean Salinity (SMOS); Soil Moisture and Ocean Salinity (SMOS) mission; spatial disaggregation; surface currents; surface quasi-geostrophic equations; temporal dynamics; tidal currents; trends; upward looking sonar; vertical total electron content (VTEC)
• Online Access: Open Access: DOAB: description of the publication; Open Access: DOAB, download the publication

 This book celebrates the ten-year anniversary of the Barcelona Expert Center by presenting recent contributions related to the topics on which the team has been working during these years. The Barcelona Expert Center expertise covers a wide variety of remote sensing fields, but the main focus of the research is on the Soil Moisture and Ocean Salinity (SMOS) data processing and its ocean, land, and ice applications. This book contains 14 scientific papers addressing topics that range from the description of the new data processing algorithms that are implemented in the last version of the operational SMOS Level 1 processor, to scientific applications derived from SMOS: results on the sea surface salinity assimilation in coastal models; synergies of the sea surface salinity with temperature and chlorophyll, and their impact on the better retrieval of ocean surface currents; quality assessment of SMOS derived sea ice thickness; sea surface salinity; and soil moisture products, among others. Moreover, one of the papers verifies the potential of the future CIMR mission within the CMEMS SSS operational production after the SMOS era.