ESA - SMOS Land Applications Workshop

ESA’s soil moisture and ocean salinity mission - SMOS – was successfully launched in November 2009. Since more than three years the first interferometric L-band radiometer in space has been providing high quality brightness temperature observations for a wide range of applications. Over land, soil moisture and vegetation opacity have been produced routinely.

Following regular meetings of the SMOS Validation & Retrieval Team and a very successful workshop in 2011 in Arles, two dedicated workshops for land and ocean applications will be held in Frascati/Rome (Italy) on 25-27 February 2013.  This land workshop will focus on the latest developments for the Level 2 processor and the verification of the corresponding soil moisture and vegetation opacity products. In addition, the international science community will present and discuss novel data products and applications.

There are welcome scientists and operational users interested in the generation and usage of SMOS data products.

The workshop is open to scientists and students interested in exploiting SMOS data over land and associated applications. The workshop will be held at ESRIN, Frascati, Italy.

Themes

• SMOS soil moisture retrieval and products
• Soil moisture algorithm calibration and validation
• Current and future SMOS derived vegetation products
• SMOS land products beyond soil moisture and vegetation optical depth

Deadline for registration:  14 January 2013.

More information on the event website.   

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• Annoucement
• Objectives
• Themes
• Scientific Committee
• Organising Committee
• Preliminary Programme
• Deadlines
• Organisation
• Participation
• On-line registration
• Travel and accommodation
• Contact