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Paper Abstract
The Surface Water and Ocean Topography (SWOT) mission will study ocean mesoscale and submesoscale phenomena
and provide an inventory of storage change and discharge for fresh water bodies and rivers. In this paper, we examine the
combination of measurements that will be used by SWOT to achieve a globally consistent data set. We introduce a new
channel in the SWOT measurement that combines data transmitted by the interferometer antennas and received by the
radiometer antenna allows the closing of the SWOT nadir coverage gap. This new mode also allows for improved
calibration between the nadir altimeter and the interferometer, resulting in consistent range measurements. Consistency
in the phase measurements is achieved using a mixture of cross-over calibration combined with optimal estimation of
system error drift.
Paper Details
Date Published: 13 October 2010
PDF: 8 pages
Proc. SPIE 7826, Sensors, Systems, and Next-Generation Satellites XIV, 782614 (13 October 2010); doi: 10.1117/12.868525
Published in SPIE Proceedings Vol. 7826:
Sensors, Systems, and Next-Generation Satellites XIV
Roland Meynart; Steven P. Neeck; Haruhisa Shimoda, Editor(s)
PDF: 8 pages
Proc. SPIE 7826, Sensors, Systems, and Next-Generation Satellites XIV, 782614 (13 October 2010); doi: 10.1117/12.868525
Show Author Affiliations
Ernesto Rodriguez, Jet Propulsion Lab. (United States)
Daniel Esteban-Fernandez, Jet Propulsion Lab. (United States)
Published in SPIE Proceedings Vol. 7826:
Sensors, Systems, and Next-Generation Satellites XIV
Roland Meynart; Steven P. Neeck; Haruhisa Shimoda, Editor(s)
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