GAVDOS/west crete cal-val site: Over a decade calibrations for Jason series, SARAL/Altika, cryoSat-2, Sentinel-3 and HY-2 altimeter satellites

Stelios Mertikas; Ilias Tziavos; Demitris Galanakis; George Vergos; Ole Baltazar Andersen; Achilles Tripolitsiotis; Xenofon Frantzis; Mingsen Lin; Fangli Qiao

GAVDOS/west crete cal-val site: Over a decade calibrations for Jason series, SARAL/Altika, cryoSat-2, Sentinel-3 and HY-2 altimeter satellites

Stelios Mertikas, Ilias Tziavos, Demitris Galanakis, George Vergos, Ole Baltazar Andersen, Achilles Tripolitsiotis, Xenofon Frantzis, Mingsen Lin, Fangli Qiao

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This work presents and compares the latest altimeter calibration results for the Sentinel-3, Jason series, as well as the SARAL/AltiKa and the Chinese HY-2 missions, conducted at the Gavdos/Crete calibration/validation facilities. At first, the Jason altimeter calibration values will be given for the ascending Pass No.109 and the descending Pass No.18, based on the the GDR-E (Jason-1) and GDR-D (Jason-2) products. Secondly, these values will be cross-examined against the altimeter bias for the SARAL/AltiKa (GDR-T) satellite at Gavdos Cal/Val using its reference ascending orbit No. 571. The Chinese HY-2 satellite altimeter bias will be presented using the CRS1 permanent site in south west Crete for the descending HY-2 Pass No. 280, at 20 Hz based on SGDR data products. Finally, values will be compared against the Sentinel-3 altimeter. Additionally, altimeter biases as determined by locally developed Mean Sea Surface model will be presented and compared with the conventional sea-surface calibration methodology.

Original language	English
Publication date	2016
Number of pages	1
Publication status	Published - 2016
Event	ESA Living Planet Symposium 2016 - Prague, Czech Republic Duration: 9 May 2016 → 13 May 2016 http://lps16.esa.int/

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Country/Territory	Czech Republic
City	Prague
Period	09/05/2016 → 13/05/2016
Internet address	http://lps16.esa.int/

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Mertikas, S., Tziavos, I., Galanakis, D., Vergos, G., Andersen, O. B., Tripolitsiotis, A., Frantzis, X., Lin, M., & Qiao, F. (2016). GAVDOS/west crete cal-val site: Over a decade calibrations for Jason series, SARAL/Altika, cryoSat-2, Sentinel-3 and HY-2 altimeter satellites. Abstract from ESA Living Planet Symposium 2016, Prague, Czech Republic. http://lps16.esa.int/page_session45.php#1642p

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GAVDOS/west crete cal-val site: Over a decade calibrations for Jason series, SARAL/Altika, cryoSat-2, Sentinel-3 and HY-2 altimeter satellites. / Mertikas, Stelios; Tziavos, Ilias; Galanakis, Demitris et al.
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