El Niño’s foot print over land surfaces (Oct 2026 s...
As an exceptional El Niño event continues to strengthen (with sea surface temperature anomalies now exceeding +4.0°C in some places […]
SMOS Monitors El Niño
Fabrice Bonjean from LOCEAN has set up a very nice page to view El Niño (ENSO for El Niño Southern […]
Accounting for spatial specificities improves biomass est...
Passive microwave radiometers, such as SMOS, measure the Earth’s natural microwave emissions. As this radiation travels upwards, the soil emission […]
SMOS: longest operational ESA EO satellite in orbit
Dear all Spring is coming and, meanwhile, yesterday SMOS surpassed ERS-2 as the longest operational ESA EO satellite in orbit […]
Very sad news
Last Sunday, our Friend and Colleague Ali Mahmoodi passed away while in Toulouse. Born in 58, he has been a […]
Happy 16th birthday !!
From Yann Kerr : SMOS turned 16 on November 2nd ! Now it can officially start taking driving lessons, open […]
Monitoring of Hurricane Melissa from space
From Nicolas Reul (IFREMER) Hurricane Melissa reached Jamaica at 1:00 PM on Tuesday, October 28, according to NOAA’s National Hurricane […]
Ground temperature below the snow finally measured by sat...
Particularly susceptible to global warming, Arctic regions are seeing their frozen soils melt at an accelerating rate. As a consequence, […]
Thesis defence “Observations of soil surface temper...
Congratulations to Juliette Ortet, who successfully defended her thesis on Tuesday, May 27th at CESBIO ! This accomplishment was achieved […]