A European radar altimeter calibration and sea-level monitoring site for Jason-1 and ENVISAT at the island of Gavdos, Crete, Greece

Stelios P. Mertikas; Erricos C. Pavlis; Panos Drakopoulos; Kirill Palamartchouk

doi:10.1117/12.462517

14 February 2003 European radar altimeter calibration and sea-level monitoring site for Jason-1 and Envisat at the island of Gavdos, Crete, Greece

Stelios P. Mertikas, Erricos C. Pavlis, Panos Drakopoulos, Kirill Palamartchouk

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Proceedings Volume 4880, Remote Sensing of the Ocean and Sea Ice 2002; (2003) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.462517
Event: International Symposium on Remote Sensing, 2002, Crete, Greece

Abstract

An absolute sea level monitoring and altimeter calibration permanent facility is being established on the isle of Gavdos, south of the island of Crete, Greece. This calibration facility has been chosen because Gavdos is under a crossing point of the ground-tracks of TOPEX/Poseidon and Jason-1, and adjacent to an ENVISAT pass. Satellite altimeter missions will be evaluated at that site using external measurements from tide gauges, GPS, a DORIS beacon, meteorological sensors, wave height sensors, airborne campaigns for gravity and sea surface topography, water vapor radiometry, solar atmospheric spectrometry, GPS buoys, altimeter transponder, Satellite Laser Ranging, etc. The mean sea level and the earth's tectonic deformation field in the region will be also determined accurately. The GAVDOS project has started in December 2001 and has been in the context of an international calibration/validation effort of the Jason-1 Science Working Team. This paper describes the objectives, current status and future plans for the establishment of the GAVDOS calibration facility for satellite altimeter missions.

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Stelios P. Mertikas, Erricos C. Pavlis, Panos Drakopoulos, and Kirill Palamartchouk "European radar altimeter calibration and sea-level monitoring site for Jason-1 and Envisat at the island of Gavdos, Crete, Greece", Proc. SPIE 4880, Remote Sensing of the Ocean and Sea Ice 2002, (14 February 2003); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.462517

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