Grass and low trees, some built-up area, flat topography, near river (but river not part of COSMOS footprint). This is a SMOS cal/val site; COSMOS probe may be useful in providing data for SMOS's calibration and validation. The probe will be here temporarily (for a few months) for cal/val experiments, and then will be moved to another SMOS cal/val site in France.
NOTE: This probe has been moved to Crolles (Grenoble).