Ocean monitoring using L-Band microwave radiometry and GNSS-R
The knowledge of sea surface salinity (SSS) is a key issue to understand and monitor the Earth¿s water cycle. Accurate and systematic measurement of SSS was not possible until the ESA¿s Soil Moisture and Ocean Salinity (SMOS) mission was launched in 2009. The SMOS mission uses L-band microwave radio...
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| Format: | Doctoral Thesis |
| Language: | English |
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Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya
2012
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| Online Access: | http://hdl.handle.net/10803/96989 |