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

• Main Authors: Quartly, GD, Nencioli, F, Raynal, M, Bonnefond, P, Garcia, PN, Garcia-Mondéjar, A, De la Cruz, AF, Cretaux, JF, Taburet, N, Frery, ML, Cancet, M, Muir, A, Brockley, D, Mcmillan, M, Abdalla, S, Fleury, S, Cadier, E, Gao, Q, Escorihuela, MJ, Roca, M, Bergé-Nguyen, M, Laurain, O, Bruniquel, J, Femenias, P, Lucas, B
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: 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://discovery.ucl.ac.uk/id/eprint/10116397/1/remotesensing-12-01763-v2.pdf; https://discovery.ucl.ac.uk/id/eprint/10116397/

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...