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

Volume

1

fYear

2001

fDate

2001

Firstpage

552

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;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Geoscience and Remote Sensing Symposium, 2001. IGARSS '01. IEEE 2001 International

Conference_Location

Sydney, NSW

Print_ISBN

0-7803-7031-7

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/IGARSS.2001.976219

Filename

976219