Improvements in altimetry performances
Systematic calval
Part of the validation and performance assessment process is a systematic, statistical, monitoring of the altimetric data. This is done either for each and every cycle, satellite per satellite, of by intercomparing different satellites. Annual reports enable a more synthetic view on the error budget and the possible improvements.
- Cycle per cycle, for Topex/Poseidon, Jason-1 and Envisat
- Envisat cross-calibration reports
- Annual reports:
- Jason-1 annual validation report (January 2008) (pdf, 24 Mb)
- Envisat annual validation report (January 2008) (pdf, 23 Mb)
- Topex/Poseidon annual validation report (January 2006) (pdf, 26.1 Mb)
- ERS-2 annual validation report (January 2006) (pdf, 5.8 Mb)