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  • Document - Product Cal/Val Plan/Report

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    Visible Channel Long Term Drift Analysis Using Desert Targets

    Visible Channel Long Term Drift Analysis Using Desert Targets. The stability of AATSR visible channel calibrations have been measured using data from stable desert targets. The calibration drift rates obtained from the time-series are less than 3.5% per year and comparable to those measured for ATSR-2. Application of the drift correction to AATSR L1B images is discussed.

  • Document - Software Verification Plan/Report

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    Verification of the BUFR Form of the AATSR Meteo Product

    Verification of the BUFR Form of the AATSR Meteo Product. This document describes the verification applied to the AATSR Meteo product (ATS_MET_AX) in its BUFR form

  • Document - Technical Note

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    Update-on-AATSR-Visible-Channel-Long-Term-Trends.pdf

    This document contains calibration guidance for the AATSR instrument.

  • News - Thematic area articles

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    Transforming space data into climate action

    ESA’s Earth observation activities are playing a key role in the revitalised global drive to combat climate change.

  • Document - General Reference

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    The Nine Candidate Earth Explorer Missions - Topography Mission

    This report for assessment addresses the Topography mission when it was selected with other nine Earth Explorer missions as a potential candidate for Phase A study.

  • Document - Software Verification Plan/Report

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    Summary of (A)ATSR Archive QC Activity Results

    Summary of (A)ATSR Archive QC Activity Results. This document presents a summary of the results from the quality control (QC) activities performed by the IDEAS AATSR QC Team on the archive of the reprocessed AATSR data and ATSR-1 and ATSR-2 data in Envisat format

  • News - Success Stories

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    Spotlight on sea-level rise

    Scientists to share findings on how satellite has revealed changes in the height of the sea, ice, inland bodies of water and more.

  • Document - General Reference

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    SMOS-ESAs-Water-Mission-Fact-sheet.pdf

    This document provided a series of information on the SMOS mission.

  • Document - Product Document

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    Single-Sensor-Error-Statistics-Report-for-(A)ATSR-L2P-Project.pdf

    This document contains the specification for Single Sensor Error Statistics (SSES) for the L2P project. The document summaries the inputs, methodology for producing SSES and output L2P file format definitions, for ATSR-1, ATSR-2 and AATSR.

  • Document - General Reference

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    Sentinel-1-The-Radar-Mission-for-GMES-Land-and-Sea-Services.pdf

    This article is extracted from ESA Bulletin Nr. 131.

  • Data - EO Sign In Authentication (Open)

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    Sea Ice Thematic Data Product [ALT_TDP_SI]

    This is the Sea Ice Thematic Data Product (TDP) V1 resulting from the ESA FDR4ALT project and containing the sea ice related geophysical parameters, along with associated uncertainties: snow depth, radar and sea-ice freeboard, sea ice thickness and concentration. The collection covers data for the ERS-1, ERS-2 and Envisat missions, and bases on Level 1 data coming from previous reprocessing (ERS REAPER and the Envisat V3.0) but taking into account the improvements made at Level 0/Level 1 in the frame of FDR4ALT (ALT FDR). The Sea Ice TDP provides data from the northern or southern hemisphere in two files corresponding to the Arctic and Antarctic regions respectively for the winter periods only, i.e., October to June for the Arctic, and May to November for the Antarctic. For many aspects, the Sea Ice TDP is very innovative: First time series of sea-ice thickness estimates for ERS Homogeneous calibration, allowing the first Arctic radar freeboard time series from ERS-1 (1991) to CryoSat-2 (2021) Uncertainties estimated along-track with a bottom-up approach based on dominant sources ERS pulse blurring error corrected using literature procedure [Peacock, 2004] The FDR4ALT products are available in NetCDF format. Free standard tools for reading NetCDF data can be used. Information for expert altimetry users is also available in a dedicated NetCDF group within the products. Please consult the FDR4ALT Product User Guide before using the data. The FDR4ALT datasets represent the new reference data for the ERS/Envisat altimetry missions, superseding any previous mission data. Users are strongly encouraged to make use of these datasets for optimal results.

  • Activity - Quality

    SCIRoCCo

    The SCIRoCCo project is an interdisciplinary cooperation of scatterometry experts aimed at promoting the continuing exploitation of ESA's unique 20 years' worth of ERS Scatterometer data.

  • Document - General Reference

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    Remote-Sensing-and-marine-ecology.pdf

    This volume collects the lecture notes of the training course on Marine Remote Sensing and its applications, held on 15-26 June 1998 at ESA ESRIN, Frascati, Italy. The lectures were held in italian: the book is available in italian only.

  • Document - Technical Note

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    QC4 Cloud masking SST anomaly

    QC4_Cloud_masking_SST_anomaly.pdf

  • Document - Technical Note

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    QC3 D4-1 Validation Report Issue 1A

    QC3_D4.1 Validation_Report_Issue_1A_20120416.pdf

  • Document - Technical Note

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    QC20 Detector Temperature Dependence

    QC20_Detector Temperature Dependence.pdf

  • Document - Technical Note

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    QC2 ATSR V3 SST Validation Report Issue 1A

    QC2_ATSR_V3_SST_Validation_Report_Issue1A.pdf

  • Document - Proceedings

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    PolInSAR-2007-Proceedings-of-the-3rd-International-Workshop-on-Science-and-Applications-of-SAR-Polarimetry-and-Polarimetric-Interferometry.pdf

    Proceedings of PolInSAR 2007 held in Frascati, Italy on from 22-26 January 2007.

  • Data - EO Sign In Authentication (Open)

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    Ocean Waves Thematic Data Product [ALT_TDP_WA]

    This is the Ocean Waves Thematic Data Product (TDP) V1 resulting from the ESA FDR4ALT project and containing Significant Wave Height estimates for the ERS-1, ERS-2 and Envisat missions. Compared to existing datasets, the Ocean Waves TDP demonstrates notable improvements in several aspects: Great improvements for Envisat due to noise reduction from Adaptive retracker and High-Frequency Adjustment (HFA) All variables are given at 5 Hz The FDR4ALT products are available in NetCDF format. Free standard tools for reading NetCDF data can be used. Information for expert altimetry users is also available in a dedicated NetCDF group within the products. Please consult the FDR4ALT Product User Guide before using the data. The FDR4ALT datasets represent the new reference data for the ERS/Envisat altimetry missions, superseding any previous mission data. Users are strongly encouraged to make use of these datasets for optimal results.