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CAMPAIGNS

Learn about the ground-based, ship-borne, balloon-borne, and airborne campaigns and small satellite field experiments that validate orbiting ESA EO satellites and support future mission development.

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    2019

    CIMREx

    CIMREx airborne campaign aimed to sample the sea ice microwave emissions from various sea ice regimes around Svalbard and

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    2006

    CoSMOS 2006

    ESA conducted an airborne campaign to map sea surface salinity named "CoSMOS-OS" that took place in April 2006 over the Norway

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    2014

    SMOSice

    The ESA SMOSice study has demonstrated for the first time the potential to retrieve sea ice thickness from SMOS data.

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    2015

    AirScatterGNSS

    In this project an Airborne Wind Vector Scatterometer (AWVS) system was designed and built for measurements of sea surface

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    2011

    CryoVEx 2011

    The aims of the CryoSat Validation Experiment (CryoVEx) 2011 was to study the snow and ice characteristics of Arctic sea

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    2017

    CryoVEx KAREN 2017

    CryoVEx-KAREN 2017 Campaign in the Arctic had the goal to collect unique measurements to help us better understand how sea

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    2011

    CryoVExGround 2011

    aims of the CryoVEx 2011 experiment, operating out of Alert base, was to study the snow and ice characteristics of Arctic sea

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    2014

    CryoVEx AEM

    CryoVEX 2014 performed measurements over the Beaufort Sea and Arctic Ocean north of Canada (Ellesmere Island) and Greenland

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    2007

    IceSAR 2007

    The objectives of IceSAR 2007 campaign was to acquire SAR images and complementary data over sea and land ice for preparation

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    2014

    CryoVEx ASIRAS 2014 

    The sea ice activities covering large parts of the western Arctic Ocean were planned to take place early in the season to

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    2002

    ESAG

    the Arctic Ocean, in support of GOCE mission; and acquire scanning laser ranging data and profiling laser altimetry over sea-ice

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    2019

    CryoVEx/ICESat-2 Spring 2019

    launch of NASA ICESat-2 in September 2018, and aimed at cross-validating ESA CryoSat-2 and NASA ICESat-2 missions over sea

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    2018

    Drift4SKIM

    As part of the detailed design and feasibility studies of the Sea Surface Kinematics Multiscale (SKIM) 9th Earth Explorer

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    2003

    CryoVEx 2003

    13.6 GHz interferometric radar measurements, in order to understand the penetration of CryoSat radar signals into polar sea-ice

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    2017 - 2018

    CryoVEx/KAREN Antarctica 2017/18 

    designed to acquire data for studying the radar penetration of Ku- and Ka-band radar in snow and firn over the Antarctica sea

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    2022

    WaddenSAR

    Download the WaddenSAR Final Report   Campaign Summary Year 2022 Geographic location Wadden Sea & North Sea, Netherlands

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    2016

    CryoVEx 2016 Spring

    The ICE-ARC campaign was mainly used to repeat some previously flown sea ice flights into the Wandel Sea and the Fram Strait

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    2005

    CryoVEx 2005

    CryoVEx 2005 was performed over the sea ice of the Bay of Bothnia (BoB).

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    2002

    LaRA

    The need for simultaneous laser and radar height measurements over land and sea ice masses has been recognised by both NASA

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    2019

    CryoVEx ICESat-2 Summer 2019

    Sea-ice melt ponds Credit: DTU Space The ESA CryoVEx/ICESat-2 summer campaign 2019 is an add-on to the campaign carried out