Permanent facility for calibration/validation of satellite altimetry: GAVDOS

Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering

Volumn 5569, Issue , 2004, Pages 14-25

  Mertikas, Stelios P ^a   Pavlis, Erricos C ^b   Tziavos, Ilias N ^c   Koutroulis, Eftichios ^a   Palamartchouk, Kirill ^a   Papadopoulos, Thanassis ^a   Vergos, George S ^a  

^a TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF CRETE   (Greece)

^b NASA HEADQUARTERS   (United States)

^c ARISTOTLE UNIVERSITY OF THESSALONIKI   (Greece)

Author keywords

Calibration validation; DORIS; Envisat; Geoid; GPS; Jason 1; Radar altimetry; Sea level; Tides

Indexed keywords

CALIBRATION; GLOBAL POSITIONING SYSTEM; GRAVITATION; RADIO ALTIMETERS; RADIOMETRY; SEA LEVEL; SENSORS; TIDES;

DORIS; ENVISAT; GEOID; JASON-1; RADAR ALTIMETRY; VALIDATION;

SATELLITE COMMUNICATION SYSTEMS;

EID: 15944387374     PISSN: 0277786X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.566361     Document Type: Conference Paper

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