Spain lead for the first time a research project of the European Space Agency, developed by the CSIC and the Polytechnic University of Catalonia, from space to measure the salinity of sea and soil moisture, and improving knowledge on climate change .

The announcement of this project, called SMOS, has coincided with the launch of SMOS Barcelona Expert Centre, who will be dealing with process data from the mission and coordinate the scientific activity of the fifty participating Spanish.

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