Snow and Ice Thickness Retrievals Using GNSS-R: Preliminary Results of the MOSAiC Experiment

• Published in: Remote sensing (Basel, Switzerland) Vol. 12; no. 24; p. 4038
• Main Authors: Munoz-Martin, Joan Francesc, Perez, Adrian, Camps, Adriano, Ribó, Serni, Cardellach, Estel, Stroeve, Julienne, Nandan, Vishnu, Itkin, Polona, Tonboe, Rasmus, Hendricks, Stefan, Huntemann, Marcus, Spreen, Gunnar, Pastena, Massimiliano
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: Basel MDPI AG 10.12.2020; MDPI
• Subjects: Antennas; arctic; Arctic Ocean; Arctic region; calibration; climate; Climate change; Climate system; data collection; Environmental impact; Experiments; field experimentation; Global navigation satellite system; GNSS-R; Ice; Ice cover; Ice thickness; Interference; microwave radiometers; Polar environments; Remote sensing; Satellites; Sea ice; Sensors; Small satellites; Snow; Soil moisture; soil water; Substrates; Technology: 500; Teknologi: 500; Thickness; VDP; Arctic Ocean; Arctic region

The FSSCat mission was the 2017 ESA Sentinel Small Satellite (S⌃3) Challenge winner and the Copernicus Masters competition overall winner. It was successfully launched on 3 September 2020 onboard the VEGA SSMS PoC (VV16). FSSCat aims to provide coarse and downscaled soil moisture data and over polar...