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<h3>About the SMOS-Box Version ${project.version}</h3>

<h4>Introduction</h4>

<p>The SMOS-Box project has been brought into life in order
    to support users of data acquired by ESA's Soil Moisture and
    Ocean Salinity (SMOS) mission. SNAP and the SMOS-Box are user
    tools which ESA/ESRIN are providing free of charge to the Earth
    Observation Community.</p>

<p>The SMOS-Box software has been developed by <a href="http://www.brockmann-consult.de/">Brockmann Consult</a> under
    ESA contract initiated by Steven Delwart (ESTEC, ESRIN) and coordinated
    Peter Regner (ESRIN).</p>

<h4>License</h4>

<p>SNAP and the SMOS-Box are free software; you can redistribute
    it and/or modify it under the terms of the <a href=
                                                          "http://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl.html">GNU General Public
        License</a> 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.</p>

<h4>Supported Data Products</h4>

<p>Version ${project.version} of the SNAP SMOS-Box is capable of reading SMOS
    data products complying with Schemas Release
    2014-04-04_v06-02-03. The product types supported are listed in
    the table below. In addition, SMOS L1C NRT products (Earth Explorer, Light-BUFR, BUFR) are supported as well.</p>

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    <tr>
        <th>Type</th>

        <th>Level</th>

        <th>Description</th>
    </tr>

    <tr>
        <td colspan="3">SMOS Products</td>
    </tr>

    <tr>
        <td>MIR_BWLD1C</td>

        <td>1C</td>

        <td>Browse Land Dual-Polarisation Product. In the SNAP data
            model all measurements in the <code>BT_Data_Type</code>
            record are represented as bands
        </td>
    </tr>

    <tr>
        <td>MIR_BWLF1C</td>

        <td>1C</td>

        <td>Browse Land Full-Polarisation Product. In the SNAP data
            model all measurements in the <code>BT_Data_Type</code>
            record are represented as bands
        </td>
    </tr>

    <tr>
        <td>MIR_BWSD1C</td>

        <td>1C</td>

        <td>Browse Sea Dual-Polarisation Product. In the SNAP data
            model all measurements in the <code>BT_Data_Type</code>
            record are represented as bands
        </td>
    </tr>

    <tr>
        <td>MIR_BWSF1C</td>

        <td>1C</td>

        <td>Browse Sea Full-Polarisation Product. In the SNAP data
            model all measurements in the <code>BT_Data_Type</code>
            record are represented as bands
        </td>
    </tr>

    <tr>
        <td>MIR_SCLD1C</td>

        <td>1C</td>

        <td>Science Land Dual-Polarisation Product. In the SNAP data
            model all measurements in the <code>BT_Data_Type</code>
            record are represented as bands. The user can specify whether
            the band data should be provided by a simulated browse
            product, which is computed on-the-fly, or by an individual
            snapshot. The former is the default. Brightness temperature
            measurements, pixel radiometric accuracies and Stokes
            parameters are represented in the Satellite's as well as in
            the Earth's reference frame
        </td>
    </tr>

    <tr>
        <td>MIR_SCLF1C</td>

        <td>1C</td>

        <td>Land Full-Polarisation Product. In the SNAP data model
            all measurements in the <code>BT_Data_Type</code> record are
            represented as bands. The user can specify whether the band
            data should be provided by a simulated browse product, which
            is computed on-the-fly, or by an individual snapshot. The
            former is the default. Brightness temperature measurements,
            pixel radiometric accuracies and Stokes parameters are
            represented in the Satellite's as well as in the Earth's
            reference frame
        </td>
    </tr>

    <tr>
        <td>MIR_SCSD1C</td>

        <td>1C</td>

        <td>Level-1c Science Sea Dual-Polarisation Product. In the
            SNAP data model all measurements in the
            <code>BT_Data_Type</code> record are represented as bands.
            The user can specify whether the band data should be provided
            by a simulated browse product, which is computed on-the-fly,
            or by an individual snapshot. The former is the default.
            Brightness temperature measurements, pixel radiometric
            accuracies and Stokes parameters are represented in the
            Satellite's as well as in the Earth's reference frame
        </td>
    </tr>

    <tr>
        <td>MIR_SCSF1C</td>

        <td>1C</td>

        <td>Level-1c Science Sea Full-Polarisation Product. In the
            SNAP data model all measurements in the
            <code>BT_Data_Type</code> record are represented as bands.
            The user can specify whether the band data should be provided
            by a simulated browse product, which is computed on-the-fly,
            or by an individual snapshot. The former is the default.
            Brightness temperature measurements, pixel radiometric
            accuracies and Stokes parameters are represented in the
            Satellite's as well as in the Earth's reference frame
        </td>
    </tr>

    <tr>
        <td>MIR_OSDAP2</td>

        <td>2</td>

        <td>Ocean Salinity Data Analysis Product. In the SNAP data model
            all measurements in the <code>Grid_Point_Data_Type</code>
            record are represented as bands
        </td>
    </tr>

    <tr>
        <td>MIR_OSUDP2</td>

        <td>2</td>

        <td>Ocean Salinity User Data Product. In the SNAP data model
            all measurements in the <code>Grid_Point_Data_Type</code>
            record are represented as bands
        </td>
    </tr>

    <tr>
        <td>MIR_SMDAP2</td>

        <td>2</td>

        <td>Soil Moisture Data Analysis Product. In the SNAP data model
            all measurements in the <code>Grid_Point_Data_Type</code>
            record are represented as bands
        </td>
    </tr>

    <tr>
        <td>MIR_SMUDP2</td>

        <td>2</td>

        <td>Soil Moisture User Data Product. In the SNAP data model
            all measurements in the <code>Grid_Point_Data_Type</code>
            record are represented as bands
        </td>
    </tr>

    <tr>
        <td colspan="3">Auxiliary Products</td>
    </tr>

    <tr>
        <td>AUX_DFFLAI</td>

        <td></td>

        <td>Leaf area index (LAI) auxiliary product. In the SNAP data
            model all measurements in the
            <code>DFFG_LAI_Point_Data_Type</code> record are represented
            as bands
        </td>
    </tr>

    <tr>
        <td>AUX_ECMWF_</td>

        <td></td>

        <td>ECMWF auxiliary product. In the SNAP data model selected
            measurements in the <code>ECMWF_PARAMS_Data_Type</code>
            record are represented as bands
        </td>
    </tr>

    <tr>
        <td>AUX_LSMASK</td>

        <td></td>

        <td>Land/sea mask auxiliary product. All flags in the
            land/sea mask are represented as masks in SNAP
        </td>
    </tr>

    <tr>
        <td>AUX_VTEC_C</td>

        <td></td>

        <td>Consolidated Vertical Total Electron Content auxiliary
            product. In the SNAP data model all measurements in the
            <code>VTEC_Data_Type</code> record are represented as
            bands
        </td>
    </tr>

    <tr>
        <td>AUX_VTEC_P</td>

        <td></td>

        <td>Predicted Vertical Total Electron Content auxiliary
            product. In the SNAP data model all measurements in the
            <code>VTEC_Data_Type</code> record are represented as
            bands
        </td>
    </tr>
</table>

<h4>Tools and commands</h4>

<p>Version ${project.version} of the SMOS-Box includes five SMOS-specific tools
    and commands:</p>

<ul>
    <li>Grid point data table: all measurements made for the grid
        point selected by either the mouse pointer or a selected pin
        are displayed in a table.
    </li>

    <li>Grid point flag matrix diagram: all flags associated with
        the measurements made for the grid point selected by either the
        mouse pointer or a selected pin are displayed in a flag
        matrix
    </li>

    <li>Grid point brightness temperature chart: All brightness
        temperatures measured for the grid point selected by either the
        mouse pointer or a selected pin are displayed in a chart
    </li>

    <li>Snapshot information tool: information for all snapshots
        contained in a Level-1c Science product can be browsed with a
        slider
    </li>

    <li>Grid point export facility: exports all data for a
        user-defined set of SMOS grid points into a plain text
        file
    </li>
</ul>

<h4>Known Limitations</h4>

<p>Version ${project.version} of the SMOS-Box has the following known
    limitations:</p>

<ul>
    <li>All SMOS data products are represented as global products
        covering the whole surface of the Earth. Therefore SMOS
        products do not have a geographical boundary
    </li>

    <li>Due to the representation of SMOS products as global
        products, it is not possible to draw lines or shapes crossing
        the anti-meridian
    </li>

    <li>Statistics, scatter plots, histograms and profile plots use
        image pixel data rather than SMOS grid point data
    </li>
</ul>

<h4>Further Information</h4>

<p>The most important source of information for SNAP and the
    SMOS-Box are the <a href="http://forum.step.esa.int/c/smos">SNAP
        Forum</a> and the <a href="http://www.brockmann-consult.de/beam-wiki/display/SBOX/">SMOS-Box Wiki</a>.</p>

<h4>Reporting Issues</h4>

<p>You can submit SNAP bug reports or feature request in the SMOS category of the <a href="http://forum.step.esa.int/c/smos">SNAP Forum</a>.</p>
<hr/>

<p><i>Copyright &copy; 2010-2014 by Brockmann Consult (<a href="mailto:info@brockmann-consult.de">info@brockmann-consult.de</a>).
    All rights reserved.</i></p>
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