Title :
CryoSat prelaunch status and performance
Author :
Rostan, F. ; Mallow, U. ; Riegger, S.
Author_Institution :
Dept. of Earth Obs. & Sci., EADS Astrium GmbH, Friedrichshafen, Germany
Abstract :
The CryoSat Earth Explorer Opportunity Mission will be the first mission to accurately determine the marine and land ice mass fluxes at a global scale. Its space segment is currently in its final test phase and will be shipped to its launch site Plesetzk in Russia by end of July. This paper gives a brief overview on the measured prelaunch performance of the CryoSat payload.
Keywords :
hydrological techniques; ice; oceanographic techniques; remote sensing; sea ice; CryoSat Earth Explorer Opportunity Mission; CryoSat payload; CryoSat prelaunch status; land ice mass flux; marine ice mass flux; Ice thickness; Instruments; Laser radar; Payloads; Pulse measurements; Pulse shaping methods; Radar tracking; Sea measurements; Synthetic aperture radar; Time measurement;
Conference_Titel :
Geoscience and Remote Sensing Symposium, 2005. IGARSS '05. Proceedings. 2005 IEEE International
Print_ISBN :
0-7803-9050-4
DOI :
10.1109/IGARSS.2005.1526209
