Documents and publications
Mission requirements
SMOS Mission Objectives and Scientific Requirements
ESA, 2002
ESA study reports
Synergistic Aspects and Auxiliary Data Concepts for Sea Surface Salinity Measurements from Space
ESA Contract 18176/04/NL/CB, 2005
Soil moisture retrieval by a future spaceborne Earth observation mission
ESA Study Report 14662/00/NL, 2004
Study of the Impact and Relevance of ESA Missions in Operational Oceanography and Climate Research and Monitoring
ESA Contract 14992/01/NL/MM, 2003
Salinity Data Processing Study
ESA Study Report 15165/01/NL, 2002
Scientific Requirements and Impact of Space Observations of Ocean Salinity for Modelling and Climate Studies
ESA Contract 14273/00/NL/DC, 2002
Study of Critical Requirements for Ocean Salinity Retrieval using low frequency Microwave Radiometer
ESA Study Report 13224/98/NL, 2000
Articles
Measuring Ocean Salinity with ESA's SMOS Mission
ESA Bulletin 111, 2002
The Second of ESA's Opportunity Missions: The Soil Moisture and Ocean Salinity Mission – SMOS
ESA Earth Observation Quarterly, 66, 2000
SMOS special feature
ESA Bulletin 137, 2009
SMOS over land
ESA Bulletin 152, 2012
More information
A list of SMOS Technical Information and Publications is available here.
