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The Coastal Zone: A Mission Target for Satellite Altimeters

The Coastal Zone: A Mission Target for Satellite Altimeters
The Coastal Zone: A Mission Target for Satellite Altimeters
Synthetic aperture radar (SAR) altimetry is rapidly becoming the most efficient way to measure small-scale changes in elevations of ice, land, and water surfaces as well as sea ice thickness. This new generation altimeter, first launched on board the CryoSat-2 satellite, fires 10 times more radar pulses per second than the previous generation and exploits the motion of the spacecraft to achieve a 20-fold increase in along-track resolution and twofold improvement in its accuracy.
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Cipollini, Paolo
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Vignudelli, Stefano
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Benveniste, Jérôme
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Cipollini, Paolo
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Vignudelli, Stefano
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Benveniste, Jérôme
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Cipollini, Paolo, Vignudelli, Stefano and Benveniste, Jérôme (2014) The Coastal Zone: A Mission Target for Satellite Altimeters. Eos Transactions American Geophysical Union, 95 (8), p72. (doi:10.1002/2014EO080006).

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Abstract

Synthetic aperture radar (SAR) altimetry is rapidly becoming the most efficient way to measure small-scale changes in elevations of ice, land, and water surfaces as well as sea ice thickness. This new generation altimeter, first launched on board the CryoSat-2 satellite, fires 10 times more radar pulses per second than the previous generation and exploits the motion of the spacecraft to achieve a 20-fold increase in along-track resolution and twofold improvement in its accuracy.

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Published date: 25 February 2014
Organisations: Marine Physics and Ocean Climate

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Local EPrints ID: 363167
URI: http://eprints.soton.ac.uk/id/eprint/363167
ISSN: 0096-3941
PURE UUID: 0b6513c6-84a1-46a2-b8ef-7605bcdc94f3

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Date deposited: 18 Mar 2014 09:39
Last modified: 14 Mar 2024 16:19

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Author: Paolo Cipollini
Author: Stefano Vignudelli
Author: Jérôme Benveniste

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