Esa Cryovex 2011 Airborne Campaign For Cryosat-2 Calibration And Validation

• Main Authors: Skourup, Henriette, Einarsson, Indriði, Sørensen, Louise Sandberg, Forsberg, René, Stenseng, Lars, Hendricks, Stefan, Helm, Veit, Davidson, Malcolm
• Format: Conference Object
• Language: English
• Published: 2011
• Subjects: Svalbard; Canada; Greenland; Austfonna; Devon Ice Cap; Alfred Wegener Institute; CryoSat Validation Experiment; Fram Strait; Ice cap; Ice Sheet; Sea ice
• Online Access: https://orbit.dtu.dk/en/publications/36af5f5c-82a4-4a2c-90b9-c069bec52d40; https://backend.orbit.dtu.dk/ws/files/6356207/prod11324468467567.AGUabstract_HSK.pdf

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...