ERS‐1 altimeter fast delivery data quality flagging over land surfaces
Over land ice and land, satellite altimeters provide valuable topographic information, in spite of having been designed primarily to operate over the ocean. There is a need, however, for careful data quality assessment and screening as erroneous elevation measurements can be included within the tele...
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ftucl:oai:eprints.ucl.ac.uk.OAI2:154939 2023-12-24T10:17:37+01:00 ERS‐1 altimeter fast delivery data quality flagging over land surfaces Strawbridge, F Laxon, S 1994-09-01 application/pdf https://discovery.ucl.ac.uk/id/eprint/154939/1/94GL01730.pdf https://discovery.ucl.ac.uk/id/eprint/154939/ eng eng AMER GEOPHYSICAL UNION https://discovery.ucl.ac.uk/id/eprint/154939/1/94GL01730.pdf https://discovery.ucl.ac.uk/id/eprint/154939/ open Geophysical Research Letters , 21 (18) 1995 - 1998. (1994) Article 1994 ftucl 2023-11-27T13:07:28Z Over land ice and land, satellite altimeters provide valuable topographic information, in spite of having been designed primarily to operate over the ocean. There is a need, however, for careful data quality assessment and screening as erroneous elevation measurements can be included within the telemetered data, especially when the range tracker encounters complex echoes, or rapidly varying topography. The ERS-1 Fast Delivery (FD) data product provides an excellent source of near real-time data, which has already been used for ice sheet mapping. This is a reduced data set consisting of onboard parameters generated once per second. In this paper we show that by applying thresholds to two parameters, significant amounts of poorly tracked data can be eliminated. The effectiveness of this filtering technique is demonstrated by a comparison of filtered and unfiltered altimeter data with a digital elevation model. This filtering technique is applied to the first 35 day repeat cycle of FD data obtained over land to produce the first map of global topography from ERS-1. Article in Journal/Newspaper Ice Sheet University College London: UCL Discovery |
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Over land ice and land, satellite altimeters provide valuable topographic information, in spite of having been designed primarily to operate over the ocean. There is a need, however, for careful data quality assessment and screening as erroneous elevation measurements can be included within the telemetered data, especially when the range tracker encounters complex echoes, or rapidly varying topography. The ERS-1 Fast Delivery (FD) data product provides an excellent source of near real-time data, which has already been used for ice sheet mapping. This is a reduced data set consisting of onboard parameters generated once per second. In this paper we show that by applying thresholds to two parameters, significant amounts of poorly tracked data can be eliminated. The effectiveness of this filtering technique is demonstrated by a comparison of filtered and unfiltered altimeter data with a digital elevation model. This filtering technique is applied to the first 35 day repeat cycle of FD data obtained over land to produce the first map of global topography from ERS-1. |
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ERS‐1 altimeter fast delivery data quality flagging over land surfaces |
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ERS‐1 altimeter fast delivery data quality flagging over land surfaces |
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ERS‐1 altimeter fast delivery data quality flagging over land surfaces |
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ERS‐1 altimeter fast delivery data quality flagging over land surfaces |
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ERS‐1 altimeter fast delivery data quality flagging over land surfaces |
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ers‐1 altimeter fast delivery data quality flagging over land surfaces |
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AMER GEOPHYSICAL UNION |
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1994 |
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Geophysical Research Letters , 21 (18) 1995 - 1998. (1994) |
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