Evaluation of SAMOSA3 adapted retracker using Cryosat-2 SAR altimetry data over the Arctic ocean

Maulik Jain; Cristina Martin-Puig; Ole Baltazar Andersen; Lars Stenseng; Jørgen Dall

doi:10.1109/IGARSS.2014.6947648

Evaluation of SAMOSA3 adapted retracker using Cryosat-2 SAR altimetry data over the Arctic ocean

Maulik Jain, Cristina Martin-Puig, Ole Baltazar Andersen, Lars Stenseng, Jørgen Dall

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European Space Agency's Cryosat-2 comes with the first ever SAR (Synthetic Aperture Radar) altimeter onboard a satellite. In this work precise sea surface heights and gravity fields are determined using Cryosat-2 SAR data. These determinations through satellite altimetry are difficult in the Arctic because of the presence of sea ice and coastal areas. Traditional retrackers generate erroneous results due to the superposition of echoes from the sea surface and sea ice. This work establishes an adaptation of the SAMOSA3 retracker as a suitable candidate; this model is improved and customized for the Arctic. Through this research it has been demonstrated that the SAMOSA3 retracker has a better performance as compared to other SAR retrackers when sea surface height and gravity field determination needs to be done. The performance evaluation of the SAMOSA3 retracker as compared to other retrackers has been done using sea surface height anomaly method and gravity field anomaly method.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	Proceedings of the IEEE International Geoscience and Remote Sensing Symposium, IGARSS 2014
Number of pages	4
Publisher	IEEE
Publication date	2014
Pages	5115-5118
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1109/IGARSS.2014.6947648
Publication status	Published - 2014
Event	2014 IEEE Geoscience and Remote Sensing Symposium: Energy and our Changing Planet - Quebec City, Canada Duration: 13 Jul 2014 → 18 Jul 2014 https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/xpl/conhome/6919813/proceeding

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Conference	2014 IEEE Geoscience and Remote Sensing Symposium
Country/Territory	Canada
City	Quebec City
Period	13/07/2014 → 18/07/2014
Other	In collaboration with the 35th Canadian Symposium on Remote Sensing (CSRS)
Internet address	https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/xpl/conhome/6919813/proceeding

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Geoscience
Altimetry
Retracking
SAMOSA
Sea Ice

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Jain, M, Martin-Puig, C, Andersen, OB, Stenseng, L & Dall, J 2014, Evaluation of SAMOSA3 adapted retracker using Cryosat-2 SAR altimetry data over the Arctic ocean. in Proceedings of the IEEE International Geoscience and Remote Sensing Symposium, IGARSS 2014. IEEE, pp. 5115-5118, 2014 IEEE Geoscience and Remote Sensing Symposium, Quebec City, Quebec, Canada, 13/07/2014. https://doi.org/10.1109/IGARSS.2014.6947648

Evaluation of SAMOSA3 adapted retracker using Cryosat-2 SAR altimetry data over the Arctic ocean. / Jain, Maulik; Martin-Puig, Cristina; Andersen, Ole Baltazar et al.
Proceedings of the IEEE International Geoscience and Remote Sensing Symposium, IGARSS 2014. IEEE, 2014. p. 5115-5118.

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