Abstract
This book celebrates the ten year anniversary of the Barcelona Expert Center by presenting recent contributions related to the topics on which the team has been working during those years. The Barcelona Expert Center’s expertise covers a wide variety of remote sensing fields, but the main focus of the research is on the SMOS data processing and its ocean, land, and ice applications. This book contains 14 scientific papers addressing topics that go from the description of the new data processing algorithms that are implemented in the last version of the operational SMOS level 1 processor to scientific applications derived from SMOS: results on the sea-surface salinity assimilation in coastal models, synergies of the sea-surface salinity with temperature and chlorophyll and their impact on the better retrieval of ocean surface currents, quality assessment of SMOS-derived sea ice thickness, sea-surface salinity, and soil moisture products, among others. Moreover, one of the papers verifies the potential of the future Copernicus Imaging Microwave Radiometer (CIMR) mission within the CMEMS sea-surface salinity (SSS) operational production after the SMOS era.
Highlights
The Barcelona Expert Centre (BEC) is a joint initiative between the Spanish Research Council (CSIC) and the Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya (UPC) that was created in 2007
They study the potential of Copernicus Imaging Microwave Radiometer (CIMR) within the CMEMS sea-surface salinity (SSS) operational production after the Soil Moisture and Ocean Salinity (SMOS) era. They demonstrate that the combined use of in situ and CIMR observations improves the global SSS retrieval compared to a processing wherein only in situ observations are ingested
This section starts with a chapter dedicated to a comparison of six operational surface soil moisture (SSM) products derived from SMOS and SMAP in order to diagnose their distinct features, by analyzing their temporal and spatial characteristics, from Partal et al [14]
Summary
The Barcelona Expert Centre (BEC) is a joint initiative between the Spanish Research Council (CSIC) and the Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya (UPC) that was created in 2007. The original purpose of the BEC was to provide support to the Spanish activities on the Soil Moisture and Ocean Salinity (SMOS) European mission, professor Font being the co-principal investigator of SMOS and being in charge of the sea salinity part of the mission. BEC missions were to provide assessments to the ESA as a level 2 ocean salinity expert support laboratory, to contribute to SMOS radiometric calibration and validation activities, and to develop and validate new algorithms for the generation of added-value products at levels 3 and 4. Research and development in Earth observation, with a special focus on microwave remote sensing and on SMOS and follow-on missions. BEC is a large team of highly motivated and remote sensing specialist people carrying out the scientific and operational activities in all processing levels of different missions. This book aims to be a tribute to the work done over the last 10 years at the BEC and to the entire team that has made the BEC one of the main remote sensing centers in Spain
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