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Document - Proceedings
EO-Summer-School-5-A-short-introduction-to-microwave-remote-sensing-of-the-land-surface.pdf
This presentation from ESA's EO Summer School 5 is a short introduction to microwave remote sensing of the land surface
Document - Proceedings
EO-Summer-School-3-Satellite-radar-21st-century-glaciology.pdf
This presentation from ESA's EO Summer School 3 describes Satellite radar – 21st century glaciology
Document - Proceedings
EO-Summer-School-3-Satellite-radar-21st-century-glaciology.pdf
This presentation from ESA's EO Summer School 3 describes Satellite radar – 21st century glaciology
Document - Product Specifications
CryoSat-Ice-netCDF-L2-Product-Format-Specification.pdf
This document specifies the netCDF format of the Level 2 products generated by the CryoSat ice processing chains.
Document - Product Specifications
CryoSat-Quaternion-Products-Format-Specifications.pdf
This document describes the AUX_PROQUA Quaternions file generated for the CryoSat mission.
Document - Product Document
CryoSat-Mission-and-Data-Document.pdf
The purpose of this document is to provide information about the CryoSat mission and its implementation.
Document - Product Specifications
CryoSat-Ice-L2-Product-Specification.pdf
CryoSat Ground Segment Instrument Processing Facility L2 - CryoSat Ice netCDF L2 Product Format Specification
Document - Product Specifications
CryoSat-Ice-L1B-Product-Specification.pdf
CryoSat Ground Segment Instrument Processing Facility L1B - CryoSat Ice netCDF L1B Product Format Specification
Document - Product Specifications
CryoSat NetCDF Level-2 Ice Product Format Specification
This document defines the NetCDF format of the CryoSat Level-2 ice product structure and content.
Document - Product Cal/Val Plan/Report
CryoSat-Calibration-and-Validation-Concept.pdf
This document intends to provide a description of a calibration and validation approach that is understandable by wider scientific users of the CryoSat data.
Document - Product Cal/Val Plan/Report
CryoSat-In-Flight-Calibration-Approach.pdf
This document determines the in-flight calibration activities for CryoSat. These activities will (largely) be performed within the Commissioning Phase1 and this document is an input to the overall Commissioning Phase Plan, AD 1.
Document - Product Document
CryoSat-Baseline-D-Evolutions.pdf
Document provides a high-level overview of the recent evolutions in the CryoSat-2 Baseline-D data processing chain.
Document - Technical Note
CryoSat-Science-and-Mission-Requirements.pdf
This document describes the CryoSat mission. It aims to provide the scientist and the engineer with an explanation of the importance of the mission, and the basis for the design of the CryoSat satellite and instrument payload.
Document - Technical Note
CryoSat-Data-Processing-Concept.pdf
The purpose of this document is to provide information to groups or individuals with an interest in this activity that will aid the focussing and planning of their activity. It contains an outline of the schedule and approach to the development of pre-launch and post-launch baseline processing algorithms, together with an identification of new processing algorithms whose optimisations requires particular post-launch attention.
Document - Technical Note
CryoSat-2-L2-Design-Summary-Document.pdf
This document is the Design Summary Document [DSD] for the CryoSat 2 Level 2 IPF2 processing system, developed by University College London’s Mullard Space Science Laboratory. The code runs under the Linux operating system, specifically CentOS.
Document - Technical Note
CryoSat-2-SIRAL-2-Determination-of-levels-of-saturation-from-in-orbit-data-Draft.pdf
This draft note provides an analysis as to whether or not the SIRAL-2 receiver is saturated during science data acquisition in SAR modes forfour cases including two (cases A and B) presented during the EUMETSAT SAR meeting (26th June 2013).
Document - Technical Note
CryoSat-2-New-Mean-Sea-Surface-for-the-L2-SAR-Chain.pdf
POM were asked to supply a new mean sea surface for use in sea ice freeboard retrieval in the second pass of the Baseline-C L2 SAR chain. The mean sea surface used in previous releases of the L2 SAR chain was constructed by UCL in 2004 for use with CryoSat-1.
Document - Technical Note
Known-Biases-in-CryoSat-Level-1b-products.pdf
The following known biases that affected CryoSat Level 1b products before Baseline C are hereafter considered: Datation biases, Range biases, Mispointing angle biases.
Document - Technical Note
CryoSat-Footprints-ESA-Aresys.pdf
In this paragraph, the beam-limited, the pulse-limited and the pulse-Doppler-limited footprints for CryoSat are discussed.
Document - Technical Note
CRYO2ICE-Orbit-Raising-Summary.pdf
This document provides a summary of the quality checking performed for the CRYO2ICE orbit raising campaign for CryoSat.