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CryoSat FDM production to end

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18 Jan 2021

Keywords: CryoSat Cryosphere SIRAL Snow and Ice Terrestrial Hydrosphere

Starting on 1 February 2021, CryoSat-2 Fast Delivery Marine (FDM) data production will be disabled.

However, Near Real Time (NRT) Ocean Products (NOP) and NRT SAR and SARIn products will continue to be generated operationally. Users can access all NRT data products on the ESA Science Server.

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CryoSat determines variations in the thickness of continental ice sheets and marine ice cover. Europe's first ice mission is an advanced radar altimeter specifically designed to monitor the most dynamic sections of Earth's cryosphere. Read more

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Quality issues in a few CryoSat NRT products over the Arctic

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4th Advanced Training Course in Land Remote Sensing

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VtCryoSat

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CryoVex KAREN Antarctica 2017 2018

ESA’s CryoVEx/Karen 2017‐18 campaign took place in Antarctica in from Dec 2017 to Jan 2018. The campaign was composed of an airborne and in‐situ campaign and acquired extensive data sets of scanning lidar, Ku‐ and Ka‐band nadir‐looking radar, and auxiliary imagery for validation of the ESA CryoSat‐2 satellite (Ku‐band radar altimetry) and the French‐Indian AltiKa mission (Ka‐band radar altimetry). Read more

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Principles of radar imagery

This document is based in part on the FAQ/ESA publication "Principles of radar imagery" as well as other publications, dealing with the theory or applications of radar imagers. Download

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