Improving the Jason-1 ground retracking to better account for attitude effects

Marine Geodesy

Volumn 27, Issue 1-2, 2004, Pages 171-197

  Amarouche, L ^a   Thibaut, P ^a   Zanife, O Z ^a   Dumont, J P ^a   Vincent, P ^b   Steunou, N ^b  

^a CLS   (France)

^b Centre National d'Etudes Spatiale   (France)

Author keywords

Echo model; Jason 1; Mispointing; Poseidon 2; Retracking

Indexed keywords

ACCURACY ASSESSMENT; ALTIMETRY; GEODESY; PARAMETERIZATION; REMOTE SENSING; TOPEX-POSEIDON;

EID: 3543134318     PISSN: 01490419     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/01490410490465210     Document Type: Article

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