The European Space Agency’s (ESA) Soil Moisture and Ocean Salinity (SMOS) satellite has just celebrated ten years in orbit, remarkable for a satellite whose mission life was considered to be a minimum of three years. It was launched on the … Continue reading
Spatial resolution is a key characteristic in remote sensing, as we’ve previously discussed. Often the view is that you need an object to be significantly larger than the resolution to be able to see it on an image. However, this … Continue reading
A couple of interesting articles came out in the last week relating to ESA’s Soil Moisture and Ocean Salinity (SMOS) mission. It caught our attention, as we’re currently knee deep in SMOS data at the moment, due to the soil moisture … Continue reading
