EnviSat Altimeter system: Near Real Time long-term monitoring

Author

Pinori, S. ; Cotton, D. ; Louis, J. ; Talone, M. ; Femenias, P.

Author_Institution

Serco S.p.A., Frascati, Italy

fYear

2012

fDate

22-27 July 2012

Firstpage

2665

Lastpage

2668

Abstract

ESA declared the end of the EnviSat mission on 9^th May 2012, after 10 years of life (doubling the initial expected 5 years of operations). Monitoring of Near Real Time (NRT) data started in 2003 to assess the quality of measurement and calibration of the EnviSat Radar Altimeter instrument. Since then, NRT data has been stored to build a comprehensive database of altimeter parameters that can be now used not only to assess the instrument calibration and the processing data quality, but also as a starting point for defining specific performance objectives for NRT data for future altimeter missions.

Keywords

altimeters; calibration; geophysical techniques; ESA; EnviSat Radar Altimeter instrument; EnviSat mission; NRT data; altimeter parameters; future altimeter missions; instrument calibration; near real time data; near real time long-term monitoring; processing data quality; specific performance objectives; Calibration; Instruments; Monitoring; Oceans; Orbits; Satellites; Sea measurements; Altimetry; data monitoring; performance evaluation; radar altimeter; remote sensing;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Geoscience and Remote Sensing Symposium (IGARSS), 2012 IEEE International

Conference_Location

Munich

ISSN

2153-6996

Print_ISBN

978-1-4673-1160-1

Electronic_ISBN

2153-6996

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/IGARSS.2012.6350380

Filename

6350380