Abstract:SMOS, acronym for Soil Moisture and Ocean Salinity, is the second selected opportunity mission on "The Living Planet Program: Earth Explorer Opportunity Missions" of the European Space Agency (ESA) [1]. The MIRAS (Microwave Imaging Radiometer with Aperture Synthesis) is the single SMOS payload, which is compounded of 69 L-band receivers to form a Y shape interferometer with full on-board calibration capability. The Spanish company EADS-CASA is currently leading the development of a Small scale Airborne prototy… Show more
“…Prior to the aircraft installation the instrumentation was used e.g. to measure point sources in anechoic chamber [55] and the sky and galactic radiation [56] in 2006.…”
Section: Early Demonstrators For Ground-based Usementioning
“…Prior to the aircraft installation the instrumentation was used e.g. to measure point sources in anechoic chamber [55] and the sky and galactic radiation [56] in 2006.…”
Section: Early Demonstrators For Ground-based Usementioning
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