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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25 February 2014
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), .
(doi:10.1002/2014EO080006).
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
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Marine Physics and Ocean Climate
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URI: http://eprints.soton.ac.uk/id/eprint/363167
ISSN: 0096-3941
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Stefano Vignudelli
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Jérôme Benveniste
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