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 pu...
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ftnerc:oai:nora.nerc.ac.uk:506311 2023-05-15T18:17:49+02:00 The Coastal Zone: A Mission Target for Satellite Altimeters Cipollini, Paolo Vignudelli, Stefano Benveniste, Jérôme 2014-02-25 text http://nora.nerc.ac.uk/id/eprint/506311/ https://nora.nerc.ac.uk/id/eprint/506311/1/eost2014EO080006.pdf https://doi.org/10.1002/2014EO080006 en eng https://nora.nerc.ac.uk/id/eprint/506311/1/eost2014EO080006.pdf Cipollini, Paolo; Vignudelli, Stefano; Benveniste, Jérôme. 2014 The Coastal Zone: A Mission Target for Satellite Altimeters. Eos, Transactions American Geophysical Union, 95 (8). p72. https://doi.org/10.1002/2014EO080006 <https://doi.org/10.1002/2014EO080006> Publication - Article PeerReviewed 2014 ftnerc https://doi.org/10.1002/2014EO080006 2023-02-04T19:39:15Z 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. Article in Journal/Newspaper Sea ice Natural Environment Research Council: NERC Open Research Archive Eos, Transactions American Geophysical Union 95 8 72 72 |
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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 Vignudelli, Stefano Benveniste, Jérôme |
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The Coastal Zone: A Mission Target for Satellite Altimeters |
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The Coastal Zone: A Mission Target for Satellite Altimeters |
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The Coastal Zone: A Mission Target for Satellite Altimeters |
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The Coastal Zone: A Mission Target for Satellite Altimeters |
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The Coastal Zone: A Mission Target for Satellite Altimeters |
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coastal zone: a mission target for satellite altimeters |
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