Absolute Calibration of Jason-1 and Jason-2 Altimeters in Corsica during the Formation Flight Phase
- 9 August 2010
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Informa UK Limited in Marine Geodesy
- Vol. 33 (sup1), 80-90
- https://doi.org/10.1080/01490419.2010.487790
Abstract
The Corsica region of the western Mediterranean, including sites at Ajaccio-Aspretto, Cape Senetosa, and Capraia (Italy), hosts a dedicated, long-term experiment to support absolute calibration of space-borne radar altimeters. The objective of the experiment is to continuously monitor the bias and drift of the altimeter measurement systems. In addition, with complementary data from a local weather station, we have derived GPS-based wet tropospheric path delay measurements that are compared with those from the on-board Microwave Radiometers at the overflight times. In this article, we focus on the analysis of data from the Formation Flight Phase of Jason-1 and Jason-2.Keywords
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