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aliases:
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    term: 379
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  - context: Mission
    lexicon: ceos
    term: SMOS
    url: http://database.eohandbook.com/database/missionindex.aspx#S
  - context: resource
    lexicon: dbpedia
    term: Soil_Moisture_and_Ocean_Salinity
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cited_by: []
contributors:
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    id: 3715
    organization:
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      name: "Centre National D'études Spatiales "
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    person_id: ~
    person_uri: ~
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    uri: /contributor/3715
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    href: http://52.38.26.42:8080/contributor/3754.yaml
    id: 3754
    organization:
      country_code: ES
      display_name: Centro para el Desarrollo Tecnológico Industrial
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      name: Centro para el Desarrollo Tecnológico Industrial
      organization_type_identifier: national
      type: organization
      url: http://www.cdti.es/
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    person: {}
    person_id: ~
    person_uri: ~
    role_type_identifier: contributor
    uri: /contributor/3754
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    href: http://52.38.26.42:8080/contributor/3736.yaml
    id: 3736
    organization:
      country_code: ~
      display_name: European Space Agency
      identifier: european-space-agency
      name: European Space Agency
      organization_type_identifier: intergovernmental
      type: organization
      url: http://www.esa.int/
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    person_id: ~
    person_uri: ~
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description: "SMOS is an ESA Explorer Opportunity science mission, a technology demonstration satellite project in ESA's Living Planet Program, in cooperation with CNES (France) and CDTI (Center for Technological and Industrial Development), Madrid, Spain."
description_attribution: https://directory.eoportal.org/web/eoportal/satellite-missions/s/smos
display_name: soil-moisture-and-ocean-salinity-earth-explorer-opportunity-mission
end_date: 2017-02-01T00:00:00
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identifier: soil-moisture-and-ocean-salinity-earth-explorer-opportunity-mission
instruments:
  - description: Multi-purpose imaging MW radiometer
    description_attribution: Multi-purpose imaging MW radiometer
    identifier: microwave-imaging-radiometer-using-aperture-synthesis-miras
    name: Microwave Imaging Radiometer using Aperture Synthesis (MIRAS)
    uri: /instrument/microwave-imaging-radiometer-using-aperture-synthesis-miras
name: Soil Moisture and Ocean Salinity (Earth Explorer Opportunity Mission)
parents: []
platform_type_identifier: spacecraft
references: []
start_date: 2009-11-02T00:00:00
type: platform
uri: /platform/soil-moisture-and-ocean-salinity-earth-explorer-opportunity-mission
url: http://earth.esa.int/SMOS/