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26/7/07    09:00 - 12:40
SMOS (I): Instrument and Mission
Th06MF
Room: 128
Chair: Achim Hahne
CoChair: Manuel Martin-Neira
Overview of the SMOS Mission and System
Hubert M.J.P. BARRE

SMOS Payload: MIRAS
Manuel Martin-Neira, Kevin McMullan, Willy Rits, Sten Ekholm, Joel Marti, Jerzy Lemanczyk, Francois Garat

Design and Technical Implementation of MIRAS Payload
Andrés Borges

MIRAS In-Orbit Calibration
Ignasi Corbella, Francesc Torres, Nuria Duffo, Adriano Camps, Mercè Vall-llossera, Verónica González

SMOS L1 Processor Prototype: From Digital Counts to Brightness Temperatures
Antonio Gutiérrez, José Barbosa, Nuno Almeida, Nuno Catarino, José Freitas, Marco Ventura, José Reis, Michele Zundo

High-Accuracy Calibration of the SMOS Radiometer Antenna Patterns at the DTU-ESA Spherical Near-Field Antenna Test Facility
S. Pivnenko, J. M. Nielsen, C. Cappellin, G. Lemanczyk, Olav Breinbjerg

Ground Calibration of SMOS: NIR and CAS
Andreas Colliander, Juha Lemmetyinen, Josu Uusitalo, Jani Suomela, Katriina Veijola, Anna Kontu, Sami Kemppainen, Jörgen Pihlflyckt, Kimmo Rautiainen, Martti Hallikainen, Janne Lahtinen

Spaceborne L-band Radiometry: Problems with the Ionosphere, the Atmosphere, Extra-Terrestrial Radiation and RFI
Niels Skou, Sidh Misra, Sten Søbjærg, Stee Kristensen

Helsinki University of Technology Synthetic Aperture Radiometer - HUT-2D
Kimmo Rautiainen, Juha Kainulainen, Tuomo Auer, Simo Tauriainen, Martti Hallikainen

Some Results of the MIRAS-SMOS Demonstrator Campaigns
Nuria Duffo, Francesc Torres, Ignasi Corbella, Verónica González, Sebastian Blanch, Adriano Camps, Mercè Vall-llossera, Jose Luis Alvarez-Perez, Serni Ribó, Manuel Martin-Neira