{"id":658822,"date":"2020-06-23T10:19:00","date_gmt":"2020-06-23T14:19:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?p=658822"},"modified":"2020-06-23T10:19:00","modified_gmt":"2020-06-23T14:19:00","slug":"smos-monitoring-droughts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?p=658822","title":{"rendered":"SMOS monitoring droughts"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/SMOS_monitoring_droughts_card_full.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><br \/>\n\tVideo:<br \/>\n\t\t\t00:03:00<\/p>\n<p>In orbit for more than a decade, ESA\u2019s Earth Explorer satellite SMOS has not only exceeded its planned lifespan, but also surpassed its original scientific goals. Built to demonstrate new technology in space and address gaps in our scientific understanding of how Earth works as a system, this remarkable mission is now also being used for a number of practical applications. With drought seemingly more commonplace, entrepreneurs are using information on soil moisture from SMOS and data from other satellites to generate commercial data products for the insurance market, ultimately bringing benefits to farmers.<\/p>\n<p>This video includes interviews of :<\/p>\n<p>Klaus Scipal: SMOS Mission Manager, ESA, Soundbites in English &amp; German<\/p>\n<p>Thijs van Leeuwen: CEO of VanderSat \u2013 Soundbites in English &amp; Dutch<\/p>\n<p>Marcel Andriesse: Senior underwriter agri-culture Swiss Re &#8211;\u00a0 Soundbites in English &amp; Dutch<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.esa.int\/Applications\/Observing_the_Earth\/SMOS\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\">More information<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&#013;<br \/>\n&#013;<br \/>\n&#013;<br \/>\n Click here for original story, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.esa.int\/ESA_Multimedia\/Videos\/2020\/06\/SMOS_monitoring_droughts\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\">SMOS monitoring droughts<\/a>&#013;<br \/>\n&#013;<br \/>\n&#013;<br \/>\nSource: ESA Space News&#013;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Video: 00:03:00 In orbit for more than a decade, ESA\u2019s Earth Explorer satellite SMOS has not only exceeded its planned lifespan, but also surpassed its original scientific goals. Built to&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":658823,"comment_status":"false","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-658822","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-ESA"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/658822","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=658822"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/658822\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/658823"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=658822"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=658822"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=658822"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}