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Activity - Quality
SCIRoCCo
Author: The SCIRoCCo Team Abstract: The ERS Scatterometers in the Global Climate Observing System report describes the current
News - General News
ESA's excellent Earth Explorer missions extended to 2025
Acting like the spinning conductor in a bicycle dynamo, it generates electrical currents and thus the continuously changing
Document - Technical Note
Accurate-Delta-Times-PATN-file-format.pdf
This document describes the PATN file, which is used for determining time correlation for ERS Radar Altimeter off-line processing.
Document - General Reference
Introduction-CryoSat-2-ICESat-2-Resonant-Orbits.pdf
This presentation describes the CRYO2ICE campaign.
Document - Technical Note
Guidelines-for-the-SAR-Delay-Doppler-L1b-Processing.pdf
The purpose of this document is to present the major theoretical guidelines for a standard SAR (aka Delay Doppler) Processing from low-level data (FBR, aka L1a) to multi-looked waveforms (L1b) in case of the Closed-Burst instrument transmission mode (CryoSat-2 and Sentinel-3 case).
Mission - Heritage Missions
ERS Radar Course 1
Therefore, microwaves easily penetrate clouds, and images can be acquired independently of the current weather conditions
Document - User Guide
ERS-User-Handbook.pdf
This user handbook is intended to assist users in accessing ERS services and how to order products. It also contains useful information regarding the ERS mission itself.
Document - General Reference
BIOMASS-Report-for-Mission-Selection-An-Earth-Explorer-to-observe-forest-biomass.pdf
The objective of the BIOMASS Mission is to determine the global distribution of forest biomass by reducing the uncertainty in the calculation of carbon stock and fluxes associated with the terrestrial biosphere.
Document - Technical Note
ESRIN-ERS-Central-Facility-File-Transfer.pdf
This document describes the structure of files and the method for file exchange between the ESRIN ERS Central Facility (EECF) and the Processing and Archiving Facilities (PAFs) and the Ground Stations of the ERS-1/2 Ground Segment.
Document - General Reference
ERS-Tandem-Mode-Mission.pdf
This document describes the concept of the tandem scenario for the ERS-1 and 2 satellites, and the processes involved in enabling this.
Document - General Reference
Two Years of ERS-1 Data Exploitation
This bulletin reports on the first two years of the ERS-1 satellite.
Document - Technical Note
EARTHNET-ERS-1-Central-Facility-User-Request-Files-Interface-Facility.pdf
This document specifies the interface through which files of data related to User Request for ERS-1 products or sensing activities will be exchanged between the Earthnet ERS-1 Central Facility (EECF) and the external entities.
Document - General Reference
Ocean-Colour-Working-Group.pdf
This report summarises an updated state of the art in ocean colour physics, monitoring and use, and provides a first document to comply with the Remote Sensing Programme Board, which was created to investigate the possibility of an ocean colour monitoring instrument for ERS-2.
News - Data Release news
New CryoSat-2 Thematic Products Now Available
The current product release represents the culmination of Phase 1 of the Cryo-TEMPO activities, which began in October 2020
Campaign
CryoVEx ICESat-2 Summer 2019
The CReSIS radar is a classic nadir-looking altimeter, i.e. the current system configuration does not support acquisition
Document - Product Cal/Val Plan/Report
Cal-Val evaluation of REAPER ERS altimeter data
The aim of this document is to present the results of the mission performance analysis performed at CLS on REAPER products. The final goal of this activity is to validate the REAPER processing scheme before performing a full reprocessing of altimeter data for the ERS-1 and ERS-2 missions.
Document - Product Cal/Val Plan/Report
ECMWF Interim report on Wind and Wave products validation 2003