The Envisat GDR and SGDR data were generated using two software: the ESA IPF, from Level 0 to Level 1B, and the CNES Bibli ALTI, from Level 1B to Level 2. Moreover a dedicated RAIES (Radar Altimeter Individual EchoeS) L1B processor were developed for processing the individual echoes. The results were appended to the SGDR products, including the power and phase individual waveforms, power scaling factor, tracker range, geolocation, altitude, time tagging.

A more detailed list of the improvements in reprocessing baseline 3.0 are shortly reported below, further details can be found in the product handbook:

RA-2 Level 1 processor 

• New independent CAL1 (PTR) Time delay & Power corrections calibration processing chain. After EOM scenario approach 
• New independent IF-mask processing chain. After EOM scenario approach 
• New independent ICU (Envisat platform clock) & USO (RA2 range clock) smoothing strategy. After EOM scenario approach 
• Updated main L1B Measurement Chain, in agreement with the new calibration approach 
• Generated Calibration files for each of the Calibration Chains (PTR, USO, IF-mask) for the whole mission 
• New generated Auxiliary Characterisation files 
• Update of the RAIEs Individual Processor to the last L1B processing version 
• Generated RAIES NetCDF files to be appended to the L2 enhanced products 

MWR Level 1b processor 

• Updated in-flight calibration insuring consistency between the L2 retrieval algorithms and the RA2-MWR observations 
• Updated side lobe correction tables accounting for the actual antenna patterns 

Level 2 processor

• NetCDF format (standard and enhanced datasets) 
• Updated Orbit standard: GDR-E 
• Updated MSS model: CNES CLS 2015 
• New MSS field, added as a second solution: DTU 15 
• Updated solution 1 tide model : GOT 4.10c 
• Updated solution 2 tide model: FES2014b 
• New long period non equilibrium field: FES2014b 
• Updated ODLE model: ACE-2 
• Updated Geoid model: EGM2008 
• New MDT field: CNES-CLS2013 
• New dry and wet tropospheric model corrections computed from the integration of ECMWF ERA-Interim profiles at the altitude of the measurement 
• New barometer height and u/v-component of the wind speed computed from ECMWF ERA-Interim maps 
• New field for MOG2D High Resolution. Ocean model forced by ECMWF ERA-Interim atmospheric pressures 
• Updated radiometer wet tropospheric correction: improvement of the retrieval estimation 
• New radiometer wet tropospheric correction field computed using lapse rate and sea surface temperature as additional input together with the brightness temperatures and the backscatter coefficient 
• New GPD+ wet tropospheric correction field 
• Updated backscatter coefficient atmospheric attenuation and alternative computation from model wet tropospheric correction 
• New SWH modeled instrumental corrections 
• Updated Sea State Bias derived from 1 year of Envisat altimeter data with version " Baseline v3.0" geophysical models 
• Updated backscatter to altimeter wind-speed adjustment to account for Envisat reprocessing Baseline V3.0 standard 
• Updated rain flag and sea ice flag tuning 
• New sea surface height anomaly fields 
• New filtered ionospheric correction field issued from CNES SLOOP project (median and Lanczos filtering) 
• New maneuver flag field 
• New surface classification and distance to shore fields 
• New continental ice flag field 
• New echo and geo corrections fields (LEGOS Ice-2 corrections) 
• New 2-kHz individual echoes fields (enhanced products only)