Title :
The CryoSat Earth Explorer Opportunity Mission-system calibration and mission performance
Author :
Rostan, F. ; Mallow, U.
Author_Institution :
Earth Obs. & Sci., astrium GmbH, Friedrichshafen, Germany
Abstract :
The CryoSat Earth Explorer Opportunity Mission will allow an accurate determination of the marine and land ice mass fluxes at a global scale. This paper gives a brief overview on the CryoSat mission and describes the CryoSat. system calibration. Special attention is given to the calibration of the interferometric baseline attitude, which is a novelty with respect to conventional radar altimeter external calibration. The impact of the calibration accuracy on the overall mission performance is shown
Keywords :
aerospace instrumentation; calibration; glaciology; hydrological equipment; ice; oceanographic equipment; radiowave interferometers; remote sensing by radar; sea ice; spaceborne radar; synthetic aperture radar; CryoSat Earth Explorer Opportunity Mission; interferometric baseline attitude; land ice mass fluxes; marine ice mass fluxes; mission performance; system calibration; Antenna feeds; Backscatter; Calibration; Earth; Fast Fourier transforms; Ice; Instruments; Monitoring; Optical interferometry; Target tracking;
Conference_Titel :
Geoscience and Remote Sensing Symposium, 2001. IGARSS '01. IEEE 2001 International
Conference_Location :
Sydney, NSW
Print_ISBN :
0-7803-7031-7
DOI :
10.1109/IGARSS.2001.976219
