Introduction
The project SMOS Toolbox for BEAM (SMOS-Box) has been brought into life in order to support users of data acquired by ESA's Soil Moisture and Ocean Salinity (SMOS) mission.
The SMOS-Box consists of a set of BEAM compliant software modules dedicated to the decoding, visualization and basic analysis of operational data products from the SMOS mission. It enables the user, primarily scientific and Cal/Val users, to import SMOS L1c and L2 science data products into the BEAM Toolbox and use the existing BEAM functionality to decode, display, manipulate, analyse and export SMOS data products to alternative formats. ESA/ESRIN is providing both BEAM and the SMOS-Box free of charge to the earth observation community.
The SMOS-Box software is developed by Brockmann Consult (BEAM Team) under ESA contract initiated by Steven Delwart (ESTEC) and coordinated by Peter Regner (ESRIN).
Publications
There is an article on the SMOS-Box and the Cal/Val data distribution, which is going to appear in the Proceedings of ESA's Living Planet Symposium 2010 held in Bergen, Norway.
Supported Product Types
The product types supported by Version 2.1 of the SMOS-Box are listed below.
Product Type |
Level |
Coverage |
Description |
|---|---|---|---|
SM_xxxx_MIR_SCLD1C |
1c |
Land |
Dual-polarisation science data |
SM_xxxx_MIR_SCLF1C |
1c |
Land |
Full-polarisation science data |
SM_xxxx_MIR_SCSD1C |
1c |
Sea |
Dual-polarisation science data |
SM_xxxx_MIR_SCSF1C |
1c |
Sea |
Full-polarisation science data |
SM_xxxx_MIR_BWLD1C |
1c |
Land |
Dual-polarisation browse data |
SM_xxxx_MIR_BWLF1C |
1c |
Land |
Full-polarisation browse data |
SM_xxxx_MIR_BWSD1C |
1c |
Sea |
Dual-polarisation browse data |
SM_xxxx_MIR_BWSF1C |
1c |
Sea |
Full-polarisation browse data |
SM_xxxx_MIR_SMUDP2 |
2 |
Land |
Soil Moisture User Data Product |
SM_xxxx_MIR_OSUDP2 |
2 |
Sea |
Ocean Salinity User Data Product |
SM_xxxx_AUX_DFFLAI |
Aux |
Land |
Leaf Area Index derived from MODIS Data |
SM_xxxx_AUX_ECMWF |
Aux |
Global |
ECMWF data on the ISEA 4-9 DGG |
SM_xxxx_AUX_LSMASK |
Aux |
Global |
Land/Sea Mask |
SM_xxxx_AUX_VTEC_C |
Aux |
Global |
Consolidated Vertical Total Electron Content |
SM_xxxx_AUX_VTEC_P |
Aux |
Global |
Predicted Vertical Total Electron Content |
License
The SMOS-Box is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by the Free Software Foundation. This program is distributed in the hope it will be useful, but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the GNU General Public License for more details.
Source Code
The source code of the SMOS-Box software is available via the git repository at http://github.com/bcdev/smos-box.
Reporting Issues
You can submit SMOS-Box bug reports and feature request to the SMOS-Box issue tracker.
Download
Please choose an installer appropriate for your platform. Note that the SMOS-Box is an add-on for BEAM, thus all installers require an existing installation of BEAM (download here).
SMOS-Box for BEAM 4.9
Platform |
Installer File |
Size |
|---|---|---|
Windows (XP, Vista and 7, 32 bit) |
48 MB |
|
Windows (XP, Vista and 7, 64 bit) |
48 MB |
|
Mac OS X (Leopard, Snow Leopard) |
48 MB |
|
Unix (including Linux) |
48 MB |
SMOS-Box for BEAM 4.8
Platform |
Installer File |
Size |
|---|---|---|
Windows (XP, Vista and 7) |
65 MB |
|
Linux |
68 MB |
|
Mac OS X (Leopard, Snow Leopard) |
48 MB |
|
Unix |
48 MB |
SMOS-Box for BEAM 4.7.1
Platform |
Installer File |
Size |
|---|---|---|
Windows (XP, Vista and 7) |
65 MB |
|
Linux |
68 MB |
|
Mac OS X (Leopard, Snow Leopard) |
48 MB |
|
Unix |
48 MB |
Usage
The SMOS-Box tools can be invoked through the SMOS-Box toolbar, which by default is located to the right of the standard VISAT toolbar, as shown in the upper part of the right edge in the screenshot below. For further information on capabilities, limitations and usage of Version 2.1 of the SMOS-Box please consult the readme and the Java help files provided with the SMOS-Box.
Data Products
Please consult the ESA SMOS Site in order to obtain SMOS data products. Example SMOS data products can be downloaded from SMOS Sample Data. An archive of preliminary L1C and L2 SMOS data for testing the SMOS-Box is available at http://www.brockmann-consult.de/beam/data/lp2010-smos-box-training-data.zip (200 MB).