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

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dc.contributor.authorMertikas, Stelios P.
dc.contributor.authorPavlis, Erricos C.
dc.contributor.authorDrakopoulos, Panos
dc.contributor.authorPalamartchouk, Kirill
dc.date.accessioned2020-10-13T18:20:15Z
dc.date.available2020-10-13T18:20:15Z
dc.date.issued2003-02-14
dc.descriptionProceedings Volume 4880, Remote Sensing of the Ocean and Sea Ice 2002, International Symposium on Remote Sensing, 2002, Crete, Greeceen_US
dc.description.abstractAn 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.en_US
dc.description.sponsorshipThe GAVDOS Project is funded by the European Union (contract EVR1-CT-2001-40019), The Swiss Federal Government and, the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA, USA).en_US
dc.description.urihttps://www.spiedigitallibrary.org/conference-proceedings-of-spie/4880/0000/A-European-radar-altimeter-calibration-and-sea-level-monitoring-site/10.1117/12.462517.short?SSO=1en_US
dc.format.extent9 pagesen_US
dc.genreconference papers and proceedingsen_US
dc.identifierdoi:10.13016/m25wkf-th86
dc.identifier.citationStelios 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, Proceedings Volume 4880, Remote Sensing of the Ocean and Sea Ice 2002; (2003) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.462517en_US
dc.identifier.urihttps://doi.org/10.1117/12.462517
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/11603/19834
dc.language.isoen_USen_US
dc.publisherSPIEen_US
dc.relation.isAvailableAtThe University of Maryland, Baltimore County (UMBC)
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dc.relation.ispartofUMBC Physics Department
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dc.titleEuropean radar altimeter calibration and sea-level monitoring site for Jason-1 and Envisat at the island of Gavdos, Crete, Greeceen_US
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