From field experiments to salinity products: a tribute to the contributions of Jordi Font to the SMOS mission

Authors

  • Adriano Camps Dept. Teoria del Senyal i Comunicacions, Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya - IEEC/CTE-UPC - SMOS Barcelona Expert Centre, CSIC-UPC
  • Carolina Gabarró SMOS Barcelona Expert Centre, CSIC-UPC - Institut de Ciències del Mar, CSIC
  • Mercè Vall-llossera Dept. Teoria del Senyal i Comunicacions, Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya - IEEC/CTE-UPC - SMOS Barcelona Expert Centre, CSIC-UPC
  • Sebastià Blanch Dept. Teoria del Senyal i Comunicacions, Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya
  • Albert Aguasca Dept. Teoria del Senyal i Comunicacions, Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya
  • Francesc Torres Dept. Teoria del Senyal i Comunicacions, Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya - SMOS Barcelona Expert Centre, CSIC-UPC
  • Ignasi Corbella Dept. Teoria del Senyal i Comunicacions, Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya - SMOS Barcelona Expert Centre, CSIC-UPC
  • Nuria Duffo Dept. Teoria del Senyal i Comunicacions, Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya - SMOS Barcelona Expert Centre, CSIC-UPC
  • Antonio Turiel SMOS Barcelona Expert Centre, CSIC-UPC - Dept. d’Eng. Electrònica, Elèctrica i Automàtica, Universitat Rovira i Virgili
  • Marcos Portabella SMOS Barcelona Expert Centre, CSIC-UPC - Institut de Ciències del Mar, CSIC
  • Joaquim Ballabrera-Poy SMOS Barcelona Expert Centre, CSIC-UPC - Institut de Ciències del Mar, CSIC
  • Verónica González-Gambau SMOS Barcelona Expert Centre, CSIC-UPC - Institut de Ciències del Mar, CSIC
  • Justino Martínez SMOS Barcelona Expert Centre, CSIC-UPC - Institut de Ciències del Mar, CSIC
  • Ramón Villarino Dept. d’Eng. Electrònica, Elèctrica i Automàtica, Universitat Rovira i Virgili
  • Luís Enrique ICFO, Mediterranean Technology Park
  • Alessandra Monerris Faculty of Engineering, Monash University
  • Xavier Bosch Microwave Systems Lab., Dept. of Electrical and Computer Eng., Colorado State Univ.
  • Roberto Sabia Telespazio-Vega UK Ltd for ESA/ESRIN
  • Marco Talone Institute for Environment and Sustainability (IES)
  • Maria Piles Dept. Teoria del Senyal i Comunicacions, Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya - IEEC/CTE-UPC - SMOS Barcelona Expert Centre, CSIC-UPC
  • Míriam Pablos Dept. Teoria del Senyal i Comunicacions, Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya - IEEC/CTE-UPC - SMOS Barcelona Expert Centre, CSIC-UPC
  • Enric Valencia Dept. Teoria del Senyal i Comunicacions, Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.3989/scimar.04285.04A

Keywords:

SMOS, radiometry, interferometry, calibration, validation, salinity, soil moisture, sea ice, GNSS-R

Abstract


This article summarizes some of the activities in which Jordi Font, research professor and head of the Department of Physical and Technological Oceanography, Institut de Ciències del Mar (CSIC, Spanish National Research Council) in Barcelona, has been involved as co-Principal Investigator for Ocean Salinity of the European Space Agency Soil Moisture and Ocean Salinity (SMOS) Earth Explorer Mission from the perspective of the Remote Sensing Lab at the Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya. We have probably left out some of his many contributions to salinity remote sensing, but we hope that this review will give an idea of the importance of his work. We focus on the following issues: 1) the new accurate measurements of the sea water dielectric constant, 2) the WISE and EuroSTARRS field experiments that helped to define the geophysical model function relating brightness temperature to sea state, 3) the FROG 2003 field experiment that helped to understand the emission of sea foam, 4) GNSS-R techniques for improving sea surface salinity retrieval, 5) instrument characterization campaigns, and 6) the operational implementation of the Processing Centre of Levels 3 and 4 at the SMOS Barcelona Expert Centre.

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Published

2016-09-30

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Camps A, Gabarró C, Vall-llossera M, Blanch S, Aguasca A, Torres F, Corbella I, Duffo N, Turiel A, Portabella M, Ballabrera-Poy J, González-Gambau V, Martínez J, Villarino R, Enrique L, Monerris A, Bosch X, Sabia R, Talone M, Piles M, Pablos M, Valencia E. From field experiments to salinity products: a tribute to the contributions of Jordi Font to the SMOS mission. Sci. mar. [Internet]. 2016Sep.30 [cited 2024Mar.29];80(S1):159-72. Available from: https://scientiamarina.revistas.csic.es/index.php/scientiamarina/article/view/1666

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