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<h3>About the BEAM SMOS-Box Version ${project.version}</h3>
<h4>Introduction</h4>
<p>The BEAM 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. BEAM 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>BEAM 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>New in Version ${project.version}</h4>
<p>Version ${project.version} of the BEAM SMOS-Box resolves
<a href="http://www.brockmann-consult.de/beam-jira/issues/?jql=project%20%3D%20SBOX%20AND%20issuetype%20in%20(Bug%2C%20Improvement%2C%20%22New%20Feature%22%2C%20Requirement)%20AND%20fixVersion%20%3D%20%223.0%22%20AND%20status%20%3D%20Resolved">several
issues</a>.</p>
<h4>Supported Data Products</h4>
<p>Version ${project.version} of the BEAM 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>
<table>
<tr>
<th>Type</th>
<th>Level</th>
<th>Description</th>
</tr>
<tr>
<td colspan="3">SMOS Products</td>
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<tr>
<td>MIR_BWLD1C</td>
<td>1C</td>
<td>Browse Land Dual-Polarisation Product. In the BEAM 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 BEAM 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 BEAM 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 BEAM 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 BEAM 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 BEAM 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
BEAM 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
BEAM 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 BEAM 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 BEAM 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 BEAM 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 BEAM 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 BEAM 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 BEAM 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 BEAM
</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>AUX_VTEC_C</td>
<td></td>
<td>Consolidated Vertical Total Electron Content auxiliary
product. In the BEAM 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 BEAM 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 BEAM and the
SMOS-Box are the <a href=
"http://www.brockmann-consult.de/cms/web/beam/forum">BEAM
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 BEAM bug reports or feature request to the
<a href=
"http://www.brockmann-consult.de/beam-jira/browse/SBOX">SMOS-Box
Issue Tracker</a>.</p>
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