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Satellites capture dramatic shifts in Earth's forests
06 Aug 2025 08:04 GMT
… used a satellite originally designed to measure soil moisture and ocean salinity to estimate … Soil satellite spots forest trends
Launched in 2009, ESA’s Soil Moisture and Ocean Salinity (SMOS) … Change Initiative. With more satellites coming online and better …
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Story Applications SMOS adds long-term view on carbon stored in forests 01/08/2025 1116 views 35 likes Read
01 Aug 2025 10:35 GMT
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Data from ESA’s Soil Moisture and Ocean Salinity (SMOS) mission can be used … However, while satellite observations from missions such as SMOS and Biomass … why we’re combining satellite data with on-the … we have to combine multiple satellites – and that’s only …
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Sensing soil moisture for better crops
03 Sep 2025 00:12 GMT
… difficult to launch on a satellite. SMAP planners overcame this obstacle … European Space Agency operates the Soil Moisture and Ocean Salinity (SMOS) mission, which observes the same … product that combines SMOS and SMAP data. The SMAP satellite passes over …
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A Decade of Global Water Cycle Monitoring: NASA Soil Moisture Active Passive Mission
19 Aug 2025 04:07 GMT
… Space Agency’s (ESA) Soil Moisture and Ocean Salinity (SMOS) mission have been recalibrated to … of interest through the Satellite Interference Reporting and Resolution … synergistically with other (colocated) satellite measurements. The SPL2SMAP_S merges …
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Devastating floods in Spain monitored by satellite imagery
10 Nov 2024 22:26 GMT
… flooding.
Earth observation satellites have provided vital imagery … Copernicus Sentinel-2 satellites have also recorded extensive … the importance of satellite support in managing disaster … extensive ground saturation. The SMOS satellite, which specializes in …
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Story Applications Devastating floods in Spain witnessed by satellites 05/11/2024 121032 views 123 likes Read
05 Nov 2024 17:02 GMT
… cope with the aftermath, satellite technology has played a crucial … is being updated as new satellite images become available.
The … assessment. US Landsat-8 satellite images captured on 30 October … of the floods.
The SMOS satellite, designed to measure global …
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Story Applications A troubling shift in Europe’s forest carbon balance 30/07/2025 512 views 5 likes Read
30 Jul 2025 23:32 GMT
… forests.
The article recognises that satellite data – combined with in-situ … data from ESA's Soil Moisture and Ocean Salinity (SMOS) satellite, which found that northern hemisphere …
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Southern Ocean Salinity May Be Triggering Sea Ice Loss
29 Jul 2025 15:42 GMT
… Southern Ocean from space. Satellites can observe the ocean surface … the signal.
Recent advances in satellite technology, however, have greatly … the European Space Agency’s Soil Moisture and Ocean Salinity (SMOS) satellite. Team member Alex Haumann, …
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Solar storm hits GNSS systems Technology News | May 13, 2024 Tractor maker John Deere sent out warnings over the weekend about the impact of the solar storm on its satellite…
13 May 2024 08:27 GMT
… having access to two satellite constellations. The StarFire 7000 … solar flares using three satellites called SMOS and Swarm. Back … sleeve,” says Klaus Scipal, SMOS Mission Manager. “Its versatility, … indeed.”
What the Swarm satellites detect depends on many …
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SMOS and Swarm team up to spot huge solar storm
26 Mar 2024 14:03 GMT
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Surprisingly, ESA's Soil Moisture and Ocean Salinity (SMOS) satellite was among the first in … , SMOS can detect effects of solar flares on the global navigation satellite … of satellites lost GPS contact with ground stations in South America. SMOS …