The Roles of the S3MPC: Monitoring, Validation and Evolution of Sentinel-3 Altimetry Observations

• Published in: Remote Sensing
• Main Authors: Graham D. Quartly, Francesco Nencioli, Matthias Raynal, Pascal Bonnefond, Pablo Nilo Garcia, Albert Garcia-Mondéjar, Adrián Flores de la Cruz, Jean-Francois Crétaux, Nicolas Taburet, Marie-Laure Frery, Mathilde Cancet, Alan Muir, David Brockley, Malcolm McMillan, Saleh Abdalla, Sara Fleury, Emeline Cadier, Qi Gao, Maria Jose Escorihuela, Mònica Roca, Muriel Bergé-Nguyen, Olivier Laurain, Jérôme Bruniquel, Pierre Féménias, Bruno Lucas
• Format: Text
• Language: English
• Published: Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute 2020
• Subjects: altimeter; calibration; validation; Copernicus/Sentinel-3; microwave radiometer; ocean; coastal zone; cryosphere; radar transponders; model comparison; buoys; The Sentinel; Sea ice
• Online Access: https://doi.org/10.3390/rs12111763

The Sentinel-3 Mission Performance Centre (S3MPC) is tasked by the European Space Agency (ESA) to monitor the health of the Copernicus Sentinel-3 satellites and ensure a high data quality to the users. This paper deals exclusively with the effort devoted to the altimeter and microwave radiometer, bo...