The Living Planet Program : Soil Moisture and Ocean Salinity (SMOS)

SMOS DATA PRODUCTS and associated tools

 

• Web Site of the SMOS L1 Processor Prototype (L1PP) : visualization tools, Seps Ground segment (SEPS-GS), Binary XML library, SMOS data conversion tools... plenty of useful resources and results

see also the software Release Note from Deimos Engenharia

(june 8, 2010)

• here is some updated information on the SMOS data products and tools (this time with the correct FTP server at ESAC).

Last version of the L1 product specifications:

SMOS Level 1 and Auxiliary Data Products Specifications SO-TN-IDR-GS-0005-L1-Spec-v5.13.pdf

The most recent versions of all the specs are available from:

1. ftp://193.146.123.166/smos/Operational_Documentation/DPGS/Technical_Notes/
   <= except the NRT
2. ftp://193.146.123.166/smos/Operational_Documentation/NRTP/
   <= NRT

This is a public location so everyone can download the documents.

The most recent versions are (April 2010):

L0: SO-TN-IDR-GS-0003 L0 Spec v3.5 2010-02-02.pdf
L1: SO-TN-IDR-GS-0005 L1 Spec v5.14 2010-02-10_track_changes.pdf
L2: SO-TN-IDR-GS-0006 L2 Spec v4.9 2010-04-06.pdf
NRT: SO-ID-DMS-GS-0002 - NRT Product Format v2_6.pdf <= FTP has 2.4

The tools developed under the DPGS contracts (the Array Matlab API is not there yet) are under: ftp://193.146.123.166/smos/software/ along with the associated documents.

See also http://earth.esa.int/SMOS/ and links from this page.

If you have any request on improvement of the tools, do not hesitate to contact :
Dr Catherine Bouzinac
RHEA / ESTEC / EOP
postbus 299
2200AG Noordwijk ZH Netherlands
+31 71 565 6598