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• News - Success Stories

  

  News - Success Stories

  New one-stop-shop for ESA and NASA altimetry data

  cs2eo.org is a free, easy-to-use portal to explore, combine and download airborne and spaceborne altimetry data from CryoSat-2, ICESat-2, CryoVEx, IceBridge and CryoTEMPO-EOLIS.

• News - Data Release news

  News - Data Release news

  Partial CryoSat LRM Ice Baseline E reprocessing completed

  An issue on the LRM waveform scaled power introduced in Baseline D, affecting the computation of backscatter, has been resolved with the transfer to operation of the new Ice Baseline E processors on 20 September 2021.

• News - Success Stories

  

  News - Success Stories

  Retrieving Snow Depth Over Sea Ice Using Dual-Frequency Altimetric Measurements

  A new study from the sea ice team of the Laboratory of Space Geophysical and Oceanographic Studies (LEGOS) in Toulouse has shown that dual-frequency SARAL and CryoSat-2 altimetric measurements can be used to retrieve consistent snow depth data over sea ice in both hemispheres.

• Event - Conference, Sessions

  

  Event - Conference, Sessions

  Living Planet Symposium 2022

  ESA’s Living Planet Symposium is the biggest Earth observation conference in the world. Join us in Bonn, Germany, for the next symposium.

• Tools - Apps

  

  Tools - Apps

  CryoSat app for Android

  Download the CryoSat application to discover what the mission is about, how it works and what the elements of the space and ground segment that makes this mission unique are.

• Tools - Apps

  

  Tools - Apps

  CryoSat app for iPad

  Download the CryoSat application to discover what the mission is about, how it works and what the elements of the space and ground segment that makes this mission unique are.

• Tools - Apps

  

  Tools - Apps

  CryoSat app for iPhone

  Download the CryoSat application to discover what the mission is about, how it works and what the elements of the space and ground segment that makes this mission unique are.

• Instrument - Altimeters

  

  Instrument - Altimeters

  RA (ERS)

  The Radar Altimeter (RA) was a Ku-band (13.8 GHz) nadir-pointing active microwave sensor, on board ERS-1 and ERS-2 missions, designed to measure echoes from ocean and ice surfaces.

• Document - Product Cal/Val Plan/Report

  

  Document - Product Cal/Val Plan/Report

  ECMWF Report on ERS-2 - May 2002

  ECMWF Report on ERS-2 RA for May 2002

• Document - Technical Note

  

  Document - Technical Note

  AOCS Mono-gyro attitude software qualification period

  AOCS Mono-gyro attitude software qualification period

• Mission - Earth Explorers

  

  Mission - Earth Explorers

  CryoSat

  CryoSat determines variations in the thickness of continental ice sheets and marine ice cover. Europe's first ice mission is an advanced radar altimeter specifically designed to monitor the most dynamic sections of Earth's cryosphere.

• Data - Campaigns data

  Data - Campaigns data

  Request campaigns data

  Request data acquired during airborne campaigns, many of which were conducted in support of ESA missions.

• Campaign

  

  Campaign

  LaRA

  To improve our knowledge of how best to measure ice thickness, the airborne Laser and Radar Altimeter campaign (LaRA) was carried out over the frozen expanses of northern Greenland.

• Campaign

  

  Campaign

  PolarGap

  The primary objective of the PolarGap campaign was to carry out an airborne gravity survey covering the southern polar gap of the gravity field mission GOCE, beyond the coverage of the GOCE orbit.

• Campaign

  

  Campaign

  CryoVEx 2003

  The CryoVEx (CryoSat Validation EXperiment) 2003 campaign was a first comprehensive Arctic Ocean airborne and surface campaign, in support of the ESA satellite CryoSat, planned for launch late 2004.

• Activity - Fiducial Reference Measurements

  Activity - Fiducial Reference Measurements

  FRM4ALT: Fiducial Reference Measurements for Altimetry

  The aim of the FRM4ALT Project. precise measurements of the surface topography of the ocean, and of continental waters are made through satellite altimetry missions all over the globe.

• Document - Technical Note

  

  Document - Technical Note

  CryoSat test dataset of mispointing angles corrected for aberration of light technical note

  This document describes the preliminary test dataset of CryoSat mispointing angles corrected for the aberration of light.

• Document - Product Specifications

  

  Document - Product Specifications

  CryoSat NetCDF Level-1 Ocean Product Format Specification

  This document defines the NetCDF format of the CryoSat Level-1 ocean product structure and content.

• Document - Product Specifications

  

  Document - Product Specifications

  CryoSat NetCDF Level-1 Ice Product Format Specification

  This document defines the NetCDF format of the CryoSat Level-1 ice product structure and content.

• Document - Product Specifications

  

  Document - Product Specifications

  CryoSat Earth Explorer Format Baseline-C Ice Level-2 Product Format Specifications

  This document defines the CryoSat Level-2 Earth Explorer Format Ice product structure and content in Baseline-C.