Monday May 15th

	Introduction (Chair: N. Skou)
8:30		Welcome and logistics	Niels Skou	paper
8:45		Introduction and aim of the workshop, approval of agenda	Y. Kerr	paper
	Status of the project (Chair: A. Hahne)
	Aim: Give an overall view of the current status of the project (the “big picture”). After an overall presentation of the project the status of the ground segments will be presented.
9:15		SMOS activities	A. Hahne	paper
9:45		The ground segment activities	N. Wright	paper
10:05		Level 0-1	M. Zundo	paper
10:25		Level 2 SM and OS	S. Delwart	paper
10:45		Coffee Break
11:00		CATDS : SMOS levels 3 and 4 ground segment	R. Moreno	paper
11:20		Campaigns (what is currently underway-first data)	P. Wursteisen	paper
11:40		Discussion	All
		An occasion to ask for clarifications, discuss ins and outs
12:00		Lunch
13:00		Instrument and external calibration	M. Brown	paper
13:30		Level 1 products	A.Guttierez	paper
13:50		Level 2 SM	A. Mahmoodi	paper
	Session 1: Instrument calibration and products (Chair: M. Berger)
	Aim: summary of what is planned: The audience should come out knowing what will be the calibration approach, the products and what will be done to get them.
14:10		Level 2 OS	F. Petitcolin	paper
14:30		“The scene dependent bias” where are we to see the animations :   SMOSBiasHF1 SMOSBiasHF2 SMOSBiasHF3  (avi data - 2 Mo each))	E. Anterrieu	paper
15:00		Discussion	All
		have a look
		A forum to make sure everyone understands what is in the different levels and where to find what they need.
15:30  …		Coffee Break and
	Posters session 1         (Chair: P. Van Oevelen )This poster session is devoted to the topics 1,2 and 3
		An alternative approach to derive Surface Temperature profiles for SMOS.	Holmes	poster
		The algorithmic approach to compute SMOS sea surface salinity L2 products	Font	poster
		Progress in remote sensing of soil moisture: An evaluation of current operational soil moisture products	Naeimi	poster
		Multiscale validation of SMOS brightness temperature and products over West Africa.	De Rosnay	poster
		Evaluation of Antarctic and TropicalForest sites for Calibration and Cross-Calibration of Spaceborne L-band Radiometers	Kim
		Soil Moisture Characterisation at the Valencia Anchor Station	Lopez-Baeza
		Temporal and spatial Salinity Variations in the GINSea	Dransfeld	poster
18:15		Ice Breaker
19:00		Adjourn

 

	Session 2: Cal/Val Activities (Chair: E. Kim)
	Aim summary of the planned cal val activities so as to identify gaps and how to fill them as well as introducing to all what is intended
8:30		AO Summary and main points (Avila summary)		S. Delwart	paper
9:00		The Aquarius approach		D. leVine	paper
9:30		ARGO upper salinity measurements: perspectives for L-band radiometers calibration and retrieved sea surface salinity validation		J. Boutin	paper
9:50		Estimating an empirical SMOS forward model and its co-variance by the use of Neural Networks		M. Crépon	paper
10:10		Validation and application of SMOS data in Canadian waters		J Gower	paper
10:30		Assessment of instrument stability and calibration by using extended targets: Antarctic plateau (Dome-C) and forests. to see the animations : 06GHz and 37GHz (avi data - 600 Ko each))		G. Macelloni	paper
10:50		Coffee break
11:10		Ground based validation of SMOS soil moisture in the U.S		T. Jackson	paper
11:30		Microwave radiometric characteristics of the TakelimganSandDesert and its implication to SMOS vicarious calibration		WG. Zhang	paper
11:50		Discussion
12:15		Lunch
	Sessions 3:     Physics of measurements (Chair: J. Font):
	Aim: state of the art in forward modelling and agreeing on consolidated forward models
13:15		Summary of activities at ESA (studies)		M. Berger	paper
13:40		Impact of the forward scattering of galactic and solar radiations from the rough sea surface  on sss remote sensing to see the animations : cs and orb (avi data - 6 Mo each ! )		N Reul	paper
14:00		Air-sea temperature difference affecting ocean salinity measurement		A.     Shibata	paper
14:20		Estimates of surface soil moisture under wet grass using L-band radiometry		K. Saleh	paper
14:40		Recent studies of forest emission at L band, in view of SMOS		P. Ferrazzoli	paper
15:00		The Mediterranean Ecosystem L-Band characterisation EXperiment (MELBEX) over natural shrubs		K. Saleh	paper
		see : SMOS MLST versus latitude
			Presentation of SMOS tools : SMOS Retrieval Software ( Sonia Zine - LOCEAN/IPSL) SEPS ( Carlos Garcia Sacristan - EADS-CASA Espacio ESOV / EE CFI ( Berthyl Duesmann - ESA/ESTEC)
15:40		Discussion
15:00		Coffee Break and
	Poster Session 2 (Chair: B. Duesman) Should include software demos an cover topic 4
		Software demos (ACRI SRS, UPC SEPS, Data viewer, ….)
		Accounting for wet snow in L-band passive microwave retrievals		Tribbeck	poster
		issues about retrieving sea surface salinity in coastal areas from SMOS data		Zine	poster
		Thermal properties of soil – measurements and modelling		Marczewski	poster
		The effects of scene heterogeneity on soil moisture retrievals from multiple-angle passive microwave sensors		Davenport
		Diurnal variations of the radiometric signal of a natural fallow at L-Band		Escorihuela	poster
		Spatial distribution mof moisture and heat in soil determined by ground and satellite measurements		Skierucha	poster
17:30		Adjourn to go to the TivoliGardens
20:00		Conference Dinner in the TivoliGardens

Wednesday May 17th

	Sessions 4:     Towards SMOS Science Exploitation (Chair: P. Waldteufel)
	Aim: discuss what are the end users requirements and expectations and what could be done to satisfy them in the near and mid term
8:30		Towards a ground soil moisture network?	P. Van Oevelen	paper
8:50		Analysis of different synergy schemes to improve SMOS soil moisture accuracy or spatial resolution	A. Chanzy	paper
9:10		Towards 1km Root Zone Soil Moisture from SMOS: The National Airborne Field Experiments	J. Walker	paper
9:30		Towards the study of the impact of SMOS data on an ocean circulation model	B.     Mourre	paper
9:50		Introductive talk to RFI issues	N. Skou, Y.Kerr	paper(1)paper(2)
10:05		more info on SRS (demo)	S. Zine	paper
10:10		Discussion
10:30		Coffee break
	Poster Session  3 (Chair: F. Bermudo) topics 5,6,7
		Combined Airborne Radio-instruments for Ocean and  Land Studies (CAROLS)	Zribi	poster
		Campaign coSMOS-2: Supporting measurements of soil moisture, LAI, NDVI and TIR	Lopez Baeza
		Influence of surface heterogeneity on L-band (1.4 GHz) measurements at various spatial resolutions; some preliminary results of the CoSMOS/NAFE’05 field campaign	Grant	poster
		Retrieving the Ocean Salinity from SMOS observations by the use of Neural Networks	Ammar	poster
		Soil moisture estimation through assimilation of L-band brightness temperature data using ensemble techniques	Dunne	poster
		The carbon observatory of Geoland: results and prospects	Calvet	poster
12:00		Lunch
	Session 5: Ways forward (Chair: Y. Kerr)
	Aim: analyse- in view of what was presented and what is requested way s forward
13:00		Latest Developments of the HUT 2-D Instrument	M. Hallikainen	paper
13:30		Initializing numerical weather prediction models with satellite derived surface soil moisture: Data assimilation experiments with ECMWF's Integrated Forecast System	M Drusch	paper
14:00		Observing Regional Salinity Signals of Major Rivers: Exploring Aquarius and SMOS Resolution Limits	D. Burrage	paper
14:20		Extraction of L-band sea surface roughness using GNSS signals within the CoSMOS-OS campaign	E. Cardellach	paper
15:00		Discussion followed by wrap up session lessons learned and summary of action items	Y. Kerr	paper
16:30-17:00		Coffee break and farewell

                                                                   

 

Participant List as of May 14^th 2006

Name	Company	Country
Ammar, A	CLS	FRANCE
Anterrieu, E.	CNRS	FRANCE
Balling, J.	Technical University of Denmark	DENMARK
Benveniste, J.	ESA/ESTEC	ITALY
Berger, M.	ESA/ESTEC	NETHERLANDS
Bermudo, F	CNES	FRANCE
Boutin, J.	CNRS	FRANCE
Brockman C.	Brockman consult	GERMANY
Burrage, D.	Naval Research Lab	UNITED STATES
Cabot, F.	CNES/CESBIO	FRANCE
Calvet, J.-C.	METEO-FRANCE	FRANCE
Camps, Adriano	Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya	SPAIN
Cano Abellán, A.	University of Valencia	SPAIN
Cardellach, E.	Institut d'Estudis Espacials de Catalunya (IEEC)	SPAIN
Casas, J.	Mier Comunicaciones S.A.	SPAIN
Chanzy, A.	INRA-CSE	FRANCE
Closa Soteras, J.	EADS-CASA/ Altamira Information	SPAIN
Crapolicchio, R.	Serco spa	ITALY
Crepon, M.	UPMC/CNRS	FRANCE
Cullen, R	ESA/ESTEC	NETHERLANDS
Davenport, I	The University of Reading	UNITED KINGDOM
Delwart, S.M.	ESA/ESTEC	NETHERLANDS
Dransfeld, S.	Institut für Meereskunde	GERMANY
Drusch, M.	ECMWF	UNITED KINGDOM
Duesmann, B.	ESA / ESTEC	NETHERLANDS
Dunne, S.C.	NERC- ESSC	UNITED KINGDOM
Escorihuela, M.J.	CESBIO	FRANCE
Ferrazzoli, P	Tor Vergata University	ITALY
Font, J.	ICM - CSIC	SPAIN
Garcia Sacristan, C	EADS-CASA Espacio	SPAIN
Gommenginger, C.	National Oceanography Centre, Southampton	UNITED KINGDOM
Gourrion, JG	IFREMER	FRANCE
Gower, J.	Institute of Ocean Sciences	CANADA
Grant, J.	Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam	NETHERLANDS
Gutiérrez, A.	Deimos Engenharia	PORTUGAL
Hallikainen, M.	Helsinki University of Technology	FINLAND
Hahne, A.	ESA-ESTEC	NETHERLANDS
Hauser, D.	CNRS	FRANCE
Holmes, T.	VU Amsterdam	NETHERLANDS
Jackson, T	USDA	UNITED STATES
Kerr, Y.	CESBIO	FRANCE
Kim, E	NASA	UNITED STATES
Kristensen, S. S.	Technical University of Denmark	DENMARK
Labroue, S.	CLS	FRANCE
Lacava, T.	IMAA-CNR	ITALY
Le Traon, P.Y.	IFREMER	FRANCE
Le Vine, D	NASA/GSFC	UNITED STATES
Macelloni, G.	CNR-IFAC	ITALY
Mahmoodi, A	Array Systems Computing Inc	CANADA
Marczewski, W.	Space Research Centre	POLAND
Martinez, C.	Facultad de Ciencias	URUGUAY
Martin-Neira, M.	ESA/ESTEC	NETHERLANDS
Mauri, E.	OGS	ITALY
McGuire, J.	Integrated Program Office/NASA	UNITED STATES
Millán-Scheiding, C.	University of Valencia/CSIC	SPAIN
Moreno, R.	CNES	FRANCE
Moufaddal, W. M.	NIOF	EGYPT
Mourre, B.	ICM - CSIC	SPAIN
Naeimi, V.	Vienna University of Technology	AUSTRIA
Njoku, E.	Jet Propulsion Laboratory	UNITED STATES
Peichl, M.	DLR	GERMANY
Obligis, E.	CLS	FRANCE
Perez, T.	Compania Industrial Monte Paz S.A.	URUGUAY
Petitcolin, F.	ACRI-ST	FRANCE
Pinol Sole, M.	GMV	SPAIN
Pinori, S.	SERCO	ITALY
Poulain, P.-M.	OGS	ITALY
Reul, Nicolas	IFREMER	FRANCE
Richaume, P	CNRS	FRANCE
Rius, A.	IEEC-IC	SPAIN
Sabia, R.	UPC	SPAIN
Saleh, K	INRA	FRANCE
Shibata, A.	EORC/JAXA	JAPAN
Skierucha, W.	Polish Academy of Sciences	POLAND
Skou, N	Technical University of Denmark	DENMARK
Soebjaerg, S.	Technical University of Denmark	DENMARK
Talone, M.	ICM - CSIC	SPAIN
Tenerelli, Joe	Ifremer	FRANCE
Thiria, S	UMPC/CNRS/IPSL	FRANCE
Tribbeck, MJ	University of Reading	UNITED KINGDOM
van Oevelen, P.	ESA/ESTEC	NETHERLANDS
Venet, M.	CNES	FRANCE
Vergely, J-L.	ACRI-ST	FRANCE
Waldteufel, P	CNRS/IPSL	FRANCE
Walker, J	University of Melbourne	AUSTRALIA
Wesson, J.	US Naval Research Lab	UNITED STATES
Wright, N	ESA/ESRIN	ITALY
Wursteisen, P.	ESA-ESTEC	NETHERLANDS
Zhang, W.G.	CSSAR	CHINA
Zine, S.	LOCEAN/IPSL	FRANCE
Zribi, M.	CETP/CNRS	FRANCE
Zundo, M.	ESA/ESTEC	NETHERLANDS