URI | http://purl.tuc.gr/dl/dias/716527A7-FC5F-4FDB-B7EB-C9F7EF7FD841 | - |
Language | en | - |
Title | OSTM/JASON-2 Cal/Val results from the Eastern Mediterranean altimeter calibration network - eMACnet | en |
Creator | Pavlis Erricos C. | en |
Creator | Evans Keith | en |
Creator | Beckley B.D. | en |
Creator | Frantzis Xenofon | en |
Creator | Φραντζης Ξενοφων | el |
Creator | Mertikas Stelios | en |
Creator | Μερτικας Στελιος | el |
Creator | Milas P. | en |
Creator | Paradissis D. | en |
Content Summary | The eastern Mediterranean altimeter calibration network (eMACnet) is the
result of the expansion of ongoing collaborative efforts in the Aegean
area. By 2003 we had established the Gavdos permanent absolute
calibration facility, a joint EU, NASA, and the Swiss Federal Government
effort. This was further expanded with NASA funding over the past three
years to include a second site at Kasteli, Crete, Greece, both of these
sites operating with the collaboration and efforts of the local team
from the Tech. Univ. of Crete. The two sites at Karave, Gavdos, and
Kasteli, Crete are located under the OSTM/JASON-2 ground-tracks (pass
018 and passes 018 and 109 respectively). The Gavdos "Karave" facility
is now being relocated to its final and originally intended location, on
a new pier, a move that will improve vastly the protection of the
facility from heavy winter storms and minimize the need for maintenance.
Over the past year our team expanded to include the Nation. Tech. Univ.
of Athens (NTUA), the Hellenic Center for Marine Research (HCMR) and the
Hellenic Navy Hydrographic Service (HNHS), in an attempt to obtain at a
minimal cost data from existing facilities operated by these groups and
future sites that are now being deployed. The primary purpose of the
extended network is the calibration and validation of altimeter data
from current and future altimetric missions. The location of some of our
sites though is such that they are also of interest to tsunami warning
network operators and we thus intend to provide our observations in
real-time from these sites to the European Tsunami Warning System (TWS).
Some of the new sites are HCMR open sea buoys that we will
collaboratively instrument with additional equipment to allow their data
to contribute to the calibration/validation process. In addition to an
overview of the project, we will present initial results from the
expanded network, covering the tandem flight phase of JASON-1 & -2
based on the latest release of JASON-1 GDRs (C). | en |
Type of Item | Δημοσίευση σε Συνέδριο | el |
Type of Item | Conference Publication | en |
License | http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ | en |
Date of Item | 2015-11-14 | - |
Date of Publication | 2009 | - |
Subject | Mineral resources, Marine | en |
Subject | Ocean mineral resources | en |
Subject | marine mineral resources | en |
Subject | mineral resources marine | en |
Subject | ocean mineral resources | en |
Bibliographic Citation | E.C. Pavlis, K. Evans, B.D. Beckley, X. Frantzis, S.P. Mertikas, P. Milas and D. Paradissis, "OSTM/JASON-2 Cal/Val Results From The Eastern Mediterranean Altimeter Calibration Network - eMACnet", in EGU General Assembly, 19-24 April 2009. | en |