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The global SMOS Level 3 daily soil moisture and brightness temperature maps
Ahmad Al Bitar
CORRESPONDING AUTHOR
Centre d'Etudes Spatiales de la Biosphère, Université de Toulouse, CNES/CNRS/IRD/UPS, Toulouse, France
Centre National de Recherche Scientifique, Paris, France
Arnaud Mialon
Centre d'Etudes Spatiales de la Biosphère, Université de Toulouse, CNES/CNRS/IRD/UPS, Toulouse, France
Centre National de Recherche Scientifique, Paris, France
Yann H. Kerr
Centre d'Etudes Spatiales de la Biosphère, Université de Toulouse, CNES/CNRS/IRD/UPS, Toulouse, France
Centre National d'Etudes Spatiales, Paris, France
François Cabot
Centre d'Etudes Spatiales de la Biosphère, Université de Toulouse, CNES/CNRS/IRD/UPS, Toulouse, France
Centre National d'Etudes Spatiales, Paris, France
Philippe Richaume
Centre d'Etudes Spatiales de la Biosphère, Université de Toulouse, CNES/CNRS/IRD/UPS, Toulouse, France
Elsa Jacquette
Centre National d'Etudes Spatiales, Paris, France
Arnaud Quesney
CapGemini Sud, 109 Avenue du Général Eisenhower, 31000 Toulouse, France
Ali Mahmoodi
Centre d'Etudes Spatiales de la Biosphère, Université de Toulouse, CNES/CNRS/IRD/UPS, Toulouse, France
Stéphane Tarot
IFremer, BP 70, 29280 Plouzane, France
Marie Parrens
Centre d'Etudes Spatiales de la Biosphère, Université de Toulouse, CNES/CNRS/IRD/UPS, Toulouse, France
Amen Al-Yaari
INRA, UMR1391 ISPA, Villenave d'Ornon, France
Thierry Pellarin
IGE, University Grenoble Alpes, CNRS/G-INP/IRD/UGA, Grenoble, France
Nemesio Rodriguez-Fernandez
Centre d'Etudes Spatiales de la Biosphère, Université de Toulouse, CNES/CNRS/IRD/UPS, Toulouse, France
Jean-Pierre Wigneron
INRA, UMR1391 ISPA, Villenave d'Ornon, France
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Surface soil moisture is a control variable for many processes linked to the water and carbon cycles. The global maps of soil moisture and brightness temperature using multiple orbits from the SMOS (Soil Moisture and Ocean Salinity) mission are presented in this paper. The maps showed an increased number of retrievals over forest areas (9 %) compared to single-orbit retrievals. The brightness temperature observations from the L-band missions SMOS (ESA) and SMAP (NASA) are close (bias < −4 K).
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