%0 Journal Article
%9 ACL : Articles dans des revues avec comité de lecture répertoriées par l'AERES
%A Martin-Neira, M.
%A LeVine, D. M.
%A Kerr, Yann
%A Skou, N.
%A Peichl, M.
%A Camps, A.
%A Corbella, I.
%A Hallikainen, M.
%A Font, J.
%A Wu, J.
%A Mecklenburg, S.
%A Drusch, M.
%T Microwave interferometric radiometry in remote sensing : an invited historical review
%D 2014
%L PAR00012144
%G ENG
%J Radio Science
%@ 0048-6604
%M ISI:000339435300005
%N 6
%P 415-449
%R 10.1002/2013rs005230
%U https://www.documentation.ird.fr/hor/PAR00012144
%V 49
%W Horizon (IRD)
%X The launch of the Soil Moisture and Ocean Salinity (SMOS) mission on 2 November 2009 marked a milestone in remote sensing for it was the first time a radiometer capable of acquiring wide field of view images at every single snapshot, a unique feature of the synthetic aperture technique, made it to space. The technology behind such an achievement was developed, thanks to the effort of a community of researchers and engineers in different groups around the world. It was only because of their joint work that SMOS finally became a reality. The fact that the European Space Agency, together with CNES (Centre National d'Etudes Spatiales) and CDTI (Centro para el Desarrollo Tecnologico e Industrial), managed to get the project through should be considered a merit and a reward for that entire community. This paper is an invited historical review that, within a very limited number of pages, tries to provide insight into some of the developments which, one way or another, are imprinted in the name of SMOS.
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