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News - Thematic area articles
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 - Product Cal/Val Plan/Report
The ERS SPTR2000 Altimetric Range Correction- Results and Validation
Document - General Reference
Taking-the-Measure-of-Earth-Fifteen-Years-of-Progress-in-Radar-Altimetry.pdf
This article is extracted from ESA Bulletin Nr. 128.
Data - EO Sign In Authentication (Open)
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
SCI-RPT-15-0001-v6-EvolutionReport.pdf
The ERS Scatterometer evolution report provides the recommendations, for the exploitation and valorisation of ESA's legacy ERS-1 and ERS-2 scatterometer (hereafter ESCAT) data.
Document - General Reference
SCI-PUB-14-0002-v01-WMO-report-1.0.pdf
The ERS Scatterometers in the Global Climate Observing System report describes the current and anticipated relationship and role of the ERS scatterometers in the Global Climate Observing System.
Document - Product Handbook
SCI-PUB-14-0001-v01-ScatHbk-6.pdf
The Scatterometry Handbook aims at providing, in a single publication, a knowledge base on Scatterometry data processing, and references to the relevant literature, needed to the users for exploiting the wealth of available scatterometer data, notably but not limited to those provided by ESA's ERS Missions.
Document - General Reference
SCI-PRE-2015-0001-v-01-SM-reprocessing-TUW.pdf
Soil Moisture reprocessing activities
Document - General Reference
SCI-PRE-2014-0003-v-01-SCAT Calibration approach-TUW.pdf
SCAT Calibration approach-TUW
Document - General Reference
SCI-PRE-2014-0002-v-01-ERS-2 mid-beam non-linearity-TUW.pdf
ERS-2 mid-beam non-linearity
Document - General Reference
SCI-GLS-14-0001-v01-Scatterometry-Glossary-1.2.pdf
The Scatterometry Glossary defines the commonly agreed terminology to use in all the documents generated by the SCIRoCCo Consortium.