Esa Cryovex 2011 Airborne Campaign For Cryosat-2 Calibration And Validation
After the successful launch of CryoSat-2 in April 2010, the first direct validation campaign of the satellite was carried out in the April-May 2011. DTU Space has been involved in ESA’s CryoSat Validation Experiment (CryoVEx) with airborne activities since 2003. To validate the performance of the Cr...
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ftdtupubl:oai:pure.atira.dk:publications/36af5f5c-82a4-4a2c-90b9-c069bec52d40 2023-05-15T13:15:41+02:00 Esa Cryovex 2011 Airborne Campaign For Cryosat-2 Calibration And Validation Skourup, Henriette Einarsson, Indriði Sørensen, Louise Sandberg Forsberg, René Stenseng, Lars Hendricks, Stefan Helm, Veit Davidson, Malcolm 2011 application/pdf https://orbit.dtu.dk/en/publications/36af5f5c-82a4-4a2c-90b9-c069bec52d40 https://backend.orbit.dtu.dk/ws/files/6356207/prod11324468467567.AGUabstract_HSK.pdf eng eng info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess Skourup , H , Einarsson , I , Sørensen , L S , Forsberg , R , Stenseng , L , Hendricks , S , Helm , V & Davidson , M 2011 , ' Esa Cryovex 2011 Airborne Campaign For Cryosat-2 Calibration And Validation ' , 2011 AGU Fall Meeting , San Francisco, CA , United States , 05/12/2011 - 09/12/2011 . conferenceObject 2011 ftdtupubl 2022-08-14T08:07:00Z After the successful launch of CryoSat-2 in April 2010, the first direct validation campaign of the satellite was carried out in the April-May 2011. DTU Space has been involved in ESA’s CryoSat Validation Experiment (CryoVEx) with airborne activities since 2003. To validate the performance of the CryoSat-2 radar altimeter (SIRAL), the aircraft is equipped with an airborne version of the SIRAL altimeter (ASIRAS) together with a laser scanner. Of particular interest is to study the penetration depth of SIRAL into both land- and sea ice. This can be done by comparing the radar and laser measurements, as the laser reflects on the surface, and by overflight of laser reflectors. In the spring of 2011 the DTU Space airborne team visited five main validation sites: Devon ice cap (Canada), Austfonna ice cap (Svalbard), the EGIG line crossing the Greenland Ice Sheet, as well as the sea ice north of Alert and sea ice around Svalbard in the Fram Strait. Selected tracks were planned to match CryoSat-2 passes and a few of them were flown in formation flight with the Alfred Wegener Institute (AWI) Polar-5 carrying an EM-bird. We present an overview of the 2011 airborne campaign together with first results of the CryoSat-2 underflights. Conference Object Alfred Wegener Institute Austfonna CryoSat Validation Experiment Fram Strait Greenland Ice cap Ice Sheet Sea ice Svalbard Technical University of Denmark: DTU Orbit Svalbard Canada Greenland Austfonna ENVELOPE(24.559,24.559,79.835,79.835) Devon Ice Cap ENVELOPE(-82.499,-82.499,75.335,75.335) |
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After the successful launch of CryoSat-2 in April 2010, the first direct validation campaign of the satellite was carried out in the April-May 2011. DTU Space has been involved in ESA’s CryoSat Validation Experiment (CryoVEx) with airborne activities since 2003. To validate the performance of the CryoSat-2 radar altimeter (SIRAL), the aircraft is equipped with an airborne version of the SIRAL altimeter (ASIRAS) together with a laser scanner. Of particular interest is to study the penetration depth of SIRAL into both land- and sea ice. This can be done by comparing the radar and laser measurements, as the laser reflects on the surface, and by overflight of laser reflectors. In the spring of 2011 the DTU Space airborne team visited five main validation sites: Devon ice cap (Canada), Austfonna ice cap (Svalbard), the EGIG line crossing the Greenland Ice Sheet, as well as the sea ice north of Alert and sea ice around Svalbard in the Fram Strait. Selected tracks were planned to match CryoSat-2 passes and a few of them were flown in formation flight with the Alfred Wegener Institute (AWI) Polar-5 carrying an EM-bird. We present an overview of the 2011 airborne campaign together with first results of the CryoSat-2 underflights. |
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Skourup, Henriette Einarsson, Indriði Sørensen, Louise Sandberg Forsberg, René Stenseng, Lars Hendricks, Stefan Helm, Veit Davidson, Malcolm Esa Cryovex 2011 Airborne Campaign For Cryosat-2 Calibration And Validation |
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Skourup, Henriette Einarsson, Indriði Sørensen, Louise Sandberg Forsberg, René Stenseng, Lars Hendricks, Stefan Helm, Veit Davidson, Malcolm |
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Esa Cryovex 2011 Airborne Campaign For Cryosat-2 Calibration And Validation |
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Esa Cryovex 2011 Airborne Campaign For Cryosat-2 Calibration And Validation |
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Esa Cryovex 2011 Airborne Campaign For Cryosat-2 Calibration And Validation |
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Esa Cryovex 2011 Airborne Campaign For Cryosat-2 Calibration And Validation |
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esa cryovex 2011 airborne campaign for cryosat-2 calibration and validation |
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https://orbit.dtu.dk/en/publications/36af5f5c-82a4-4a2c-90b9-c069bec52d40 https://backend.orbit.dtu.dk/ws/files/6356207/prod11324468467567.AGUabstract_HSK.pdf |
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ENVELOPE(24.559,24.559,79.835,79.835) ENVELOPE(-82.499,-82.499,75.335,75.335) |
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Svalbard Canada Greenland Austfonna Devon Ice Cap |
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Alfred Wegener Institute Austfonna CryoSat Validation Experiment Fram Strait Greenland Ice cap Ice Sheet Sea ice Svalbard |
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Alfred Wegener Institute Austfonna CryoSat Validation Experiment Fram Strait Greenland Ice cap Ice Sheet Sea ice Svalbard |
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Skourup , H , Einarsson , I , Sørensen , L S , Forsberg , R , Stenseng , L , Hendricks , S , Helm , V & Davidson , M 2011 , ' Esa Cryovex 2011 Airborne Campaign For Cryosat-2 Calibration And Validation ' , 2011 AGU Fall Meeting , San Francisco, CA , United States , 05/12/2011 - 09/12/2011 . |
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