Aperture Synthesis

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Name: Aperture Synthesis

First Reported Nov 20 2009 - Updated Nov 20 2009 - 1 Documents

SMOS Satellite Instrument Comes Alive

Search All Our Sites - Powered By Bing EARTH OBSERVATION Data provided by MIRAS will be important for weather and climate modelling, water resource management, agriculture planning, ocean currents and circulation studies and forecasting hazardous events ... [Published Nov 20 2009 by Space Daily]

Entities: Payload, European Space Agency, Calibration, Aperture Synthesis

First Reported Nov 02 2009 - Updated Nov 03 2009 - 1 Documents

European Space Agency

Europe probe tracks global warming impact on water

PARIS (AFP) The European Space Agency on Monday launched a water tracking satellite that will help give faster predictions of floods and other extreme weather incidents caused by global warming.The 315 million euro (460 million dollar) Soil Moisture and ... [Published Nov 02 2009 by AFP via Yahoo!]

Entities: Global Warming/Climate Change, European Space Agency, Salinity, Biosphere

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Jordi Font, the mission's Lead Investigator for ocean salinity, said, "For the ocean products, a lot of work still has to be done before the release of operational data. The low sensitivity to variations in salinity requires very accurate instrument calibration and data processing to achieve the mission's measurement goals for ocean salinity. However, the excellent performance of MIRAS, and the work being done in commissioning means we are very close to obtaining good results for measuring salinity."

ESA Releases First Images From SMOS Water Mission [Water Online - Feb 24 2010]

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ESA Releases First Images From SMOS Water Mission [Water Online - Feb 24 2010]
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