TY - JOUR T1 - Benefits of the future sea surface salinity measurements from SMOS: Generation and characteristics of SMOS geophysical products A1 - Obligis,E A1 - Boone,C A1 - Larnicol,G A1 - Philipps,S A1 - Tranchant,B A1 - Le Traon,Pierre-Yves AD - Collecte Localisat Satellites, Space Oceanog Div, F-31520 Ramonville St Agne, France. AD - CERFACS, F-31057 Toulouse 01, France. AD - Inst Francais Rech Exploitat Mer, F-29280 Plouzane, France. UR - https://archimer.ifremer.fr/doc/00000/3773/ DO - 10.1109/TGRS.2007.914802 KW - Soil Moisture and Ocean Salinity SMOS KW - Sea surface salinity SSS KW - Remote sensing KW - Optimal interpolation KW - Microwave radiometry KW - Brightness temperatures N2 - Soil Moisture and Ocean Salinity (SMOS) level 2 and level 3 products are simulated and characterized over a one-year time period. A simulator is first used to evaluate the sea surface salinity (SSS) error of level 2 SMOS products. An optimal interpolation method is then adapted to map the surface salinity in order to simulate a level 3 SMOS product. The quality of the simulated products is satisfactory. The mean error of the SSS at pixel scale is around 1 psu, and the error on the final gridded product fits the Global Ocean Data Assimilation Experiment requirements (0.2 psu). Y1 - 2008/03 PB - IEEE JF - IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing SN - 0196-2892 VL - 46 IS - 3 SP - 746 EP - 753 ID - 3773 ER -