COMMUNICATIONS

Bermudo, Venet, Ledu, Landiech, Kerr, Barre, April 2005:
SMOS: An L-band interferometric radiometer mission
5th IAA Symposium on Small Satellites for Earth Observation Berlin.

Moulin, Hahne, 2003:
Implementation of the Soil Moisture and Ocean Saliniity Variables by the Space SMOS Mission
54th IAF Congress 2003 Bremen Germany.

Kerr, Waldteufel, Wigneron, Font, Berger, 2003:
The Soil Moisture and Ocean Salinity Mission
IGAARS 2003, Toulouse.

PUBLICATIONS

Scientific Use

Victor Klemas, 2011:
Remote Sensing of Sea Surface Salinity: An Overview with Case Studies
Journal of Coastal Research, 27(5):830-838. 2011, doi: 10.2112/JCOASTRES-D-11-00060.1

Overall presentations

J. Font, Y. Kerr, and M. Berger, 2000:
Measuring Ocean Salinity from Space: the European Space Agency's SMOS Mission
in Backscatter, vol. 11, 2000, pp. 17-19.

Y. H. Kerr, J. Font, P. Waldteufel, and M. Berger, 2000:
The Soil Moisture and Ocean salinity Mission:SMOS
in Earth Observation Quarterly, 2000, pp. 18-26.

Requirements

Y. H. Kerr, A. Chanzy, J. P. Wigneron, T. J. Schmugge, and L. Laguerre, 1995:
Requirements for assessing soil moisture from space in arid and semi arid areas
in Soil Moisture and Ocean Salinity (SMOS) Measurement Requirements and Radiometer Techniques, vol. ESA WPP-87, N. ESA, Pays-Bas, Ed., 1995, pp. 15-33.

Y. H. Kerr and T. J. Jackson, 1995:
Working Group report on Soil Moisture
in Passive Microwave Remote Sensing of Land-Atmosphere Interactions, B. J. Choudhury, Y. H. Kerr, E. G. Njoku, and P. Pampaloni, Eds.: VSP, 1995, pp. 661-667.

Theory

B. J. Choudhury, Y. H. Kerr, E. G. Njoku, and P. Pampaloni, 1995:
Passive Microwave Remote Sensing of Land-Atmosphere Interactions
VSP, 1995.

Y. H. Kerr and J. P. Wigneron, 1995:
Vegetation models and observations: A review
in Passive Microwave Remote Sensing of Land-Atmosphere Interactions, B. J. Choudhury, Y. H. Kerr, E. G. Njoku, and P. Pampaloni, Eds.: VSP, The Netherlands, 1995, pp. 317-344.

J.-P. Wigneron, T. Pellarin, J.-C. Calvet, P. de Rosnay, K. Saleh, and Y. Kerr, 2005:
L-MEB: A simple model at L-band for the continental areas - Application to the simulation of a half-degree resolution and global scale data set
in Radiative Transfer Models for Microwave Radiometry, C. Mätzler, Ed. Stevenage, UK: Institution of Electrical Engineers, 2005.

J.-P. Wigneron, A. Chanzy, P. Waldteufel, J. C. Calvet, O. Marloie, J. P. Hanocq, and Y. H. Kerr, 2000:
Retrieval capabilities of L-Band 2-D interferometric radiometry over land surfaces (SMOS Mission)
Netherlands: VSP, 2000.

J.-P. Wigneron, Y. Kerr, and L. Prévot, 1997:
Retrieval of Soil and Vegetation Features from Passive Microwave Measurements
Remote Sensing Reviews, vol. 15, pp. 157-177, 1997.

Mission and Concept

Y. H. Kerr, P. Waldteufel, J. P. Wigneron, J. M. Martinuzzi, B. Lazard, J. M. Goutoule, and A. Lannes, 2000:
The soil moisture and ocean salinity (smos) mission An overview
P. P. S. Paloscia, Ed.: VSP, 2000, pp. 467-475.

Y. H. Kerr, P. Waldteufel, J.-P. Wigneron, J. Martinuzzi, J. Font, and M. Berger, 2001:
Soil moisture retrieval from space: the Soil Moisture and Ocean Salinity (SMOS) mission
Geoscience and Remote Sensing, IEEE Transactions on, vol. 39, pp. 1729-1735, 2001.

P. Waldteufel, E. Anterrieu, J. M. Goutoule, and Y. H. Kerr, 2000:
Field of view characteristics of a 2-D interferometric antenna, as illustrated by the MIRAS/SMOS L-band concept
P. P. S. Paloscia, Ed.: VSP, 2000, pp. 477-483.

P. Silvestrin, M. Berger, Y. H. Kerr, and J. Font, 2001:
ESA's Second Earth Explorer Opportunity Mission: The soil Moisture and Ocean salinity Mission - SMOS
IEEE Geoscience and Remote Sensing Newsletter, pp. 11-14, 2001.