Calibration of the CryoSat-2 interferometer and measurement of across-track ocean slope

IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing

Volumn 51, Issue 1, 2013, Pages 57-72

  Galin, Natalia ^a   Wingham, Duncan J ^a   Cullen, Robert ^b   Fornari, Marco ^c   Smith, Walter H F ^d   Abdalla, Saleh ^e  

^a UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^b Vega Space Ltd   (United Kingdom)

^c New Tech Center   (Belgium)

^d NOAA EARTH SYSTEM RESEARCH LABORATORY   (United States)

^e Research Department of ECMWF   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Calibration; CryoSat 2; interferometry; radar altimetry

Indexed keywords

ARRIVAL ANGLES; CONTINENTAL ICE SHEET; CRYOSAT-2; GREENLAND ICE SHEET; INSTRUMENT PERFORMANCE; INTERFEROMETRIC CONFIGURATION; INTERFEROMETRIC MEASUREMENT; MIDLATITUDE OCEAN; OCEAN SURFACES; RADAR ALTIMETRY; ROLL ANGLE; SCALE FACTOR; SLOPE MEASUREMENT; SLOPING SURFACES; SURFACE SLOPE;

CALIBRATION; ESTIMATION; GLACIERS; INTERFEROMETERS; RADAR;

INTERFEROMETRY;

CALIBRATION; CRYOSAT-2; DATA ACQUISITION; ECHO SOUNDER; ICE SHEET; RADAR; RADAR INTERFEROMETRY; SATELLITE ALTIMETRY; SEA SURFACE; SPATIOTEMPORAL ANALYSIS; WAVE HEIGHT;

ANTARCTIC ICE SHEET; ANTARCTICA; ARCTIC; GREENLAND; GREENLAND ICE SHEET;

EID: 84871758965     PISSN: 01962892     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TGRS.2012.2200298     Document Type: Article

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