The smv is provided as an open and free data access tool from nasas oak ridge. The soil moisture and ocean salinity smos mission will be esas second earth explorer in orbit. Please register for access to the requested data esa cci. Remote sensing free fulltext use of smos l3 soil moisture. Smos is an esa explorer opportunity science mission, a technology demonstration satellite project in esas living planet program, in cooperation with cnes france and cdti center for technological and industrial development, madrid, spain. You need to click on the link in the automatic email in order to receive the access credentials. These images are used to derive global maps of soil moisture every three days, achieving an accuracy of 4% at a spatial resolution of about 50 km. It will be very kind of you who can provide me some useful information about soil. Cci soil moisture assessment with smos soil moisture and. In addition the remote sensing images are required to be free. Tools for working with soil moisture and ocean salinity smos satellite data perrygeosmos. Smos esas soil moisture ocean salinity is a radio telescope in orbit.
Smos esa earth observation missions earth online esa. The goal of this study was to validate soil moisture data from soil moisture ocean salinity smos using two in situ databases for pernambuco state, located in. Detailed information on the esas soil moisture and ocean salinity smos earth explorer mission, on the relevant product format specifications and data processing algorithms, can be found on the esa earth online portal. Where can i get the soil moisture products feely online. Global estimates of land surface water fluxes from smos and smap satellite soil moisture data. The smos level 3 soil moisture was developed to take advantage of several revisits of the same point in 7 days. Known as esas water mission, smos will make global observations of soil moisture over land and seasurface salinity over the oceans to improve our understanding of the water cycle. Global estimates of land surface water fluxes from smos. For higherlevel sea surface salinity and soil moisture data products users. Its microwave imaging radiometer using aperture synthesis miras radiometer picks up faint microwave emissions from earths surface to map levels of soil moisture, sea surface salinity, sea ice thickness and others geophysical variable such as wind speed over. The smos l3 soil moisture and l3 brightness temperature products are delivered using an open licence and free of charge using a web. Esas soil moisture ocean salinity smos earth explorer mission is a radio telescope in orbit, but pointing back to earth not space. The smos l3 soil moisture and l3 brightness temperature products are delivered using an open licence and free of charge using a web application.
Smos surface soil moisture barcelona expert center. The corresponding eo data collections are made available under a free dataset. Access to esa eo data copernicus space component data access. The smos satellite carries a novel interferometric radiometer that operates in the lband microwave range to capture brightness temperature images. The global smos level 3 daily soil moisture and brightness. The project smos toolbox for snap smos box has been brought into life in order to support users of data acquired by esas soil moisture and ocean salinity mission snap and the smos box are user tools which esaesrin is providing free of charge to the earth observation community. Smos science products view data product earth online esa.
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