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Since 1993 ESA has been conducting several feasibility studies and breadboarding activities for the development of a "Microwave Imaging Radiometer with Aperture Synthesis", known as MIRAS. This Earth-observation instrument is intended particularly for the measurement of soil moisture and ocean salinity on a global scale. The relevance of these two geophysical parameters has been repeatedly emphasised by the scientific community and MIRAS could eventually form the core of an ESA Earth Explorer mission devoted to the global measurement of these two parameters.  2, record 1, English, - microwave%20imaging%20radiometer%20with%20aperture%20synthesis

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Radiomètre hyperfréquence en bande L pour la télédétection terrestre de l'humidité des sols et de la salinité des océans.  1, record 1, French, - radiom%C3%A8tre%20interf%C3%A9rom%C3%A9trique%20hyperfr%C3%A9quence%20%C3%A0%20synth%C3%A8se%20d%27ouverture

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We focus on the aspects that are particular to the idea of correlative measurement: geometrical considerations, simulations of the solar absorption spectra in the middle-infrared region corresponding to the different observational geometries, and the associated retrieval methods. These studies are done specifically for the Belgian-French experiment MIRAS (MIR Infrared Atmospheric Spectrometer) onboard the Russian Space Station MIR and correlative ground-based FTIR measurements in the Tatra mountains.  2, record 2, English, - Mir%20infrared%20atmospheric%20spectrometer

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