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Abstract | ||
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The European Space Agency's (ESA) environmental research satellite, Envisat, was launched on 1st March 2002. Carrying a suit of sensors, it offers opportunities for a broad range of scientific research activities and applications. One of the instruments on board Envisat is the Advanced Along Track Scanning Radiometer, AATSR. Funded primarily by the UK Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs (DEFRA) in support of their programme of climate monitoring and prediction, AATSR is designed to provide precise, accurate measurements of global sea surface temperature (better than 0.3K ± 1sigma), required for climate research and global climate change detection. It continues the work of ATSR and ATSR-2, and will lead to a 15+ year data record. This paper introduces the AATSR validation programme, designed to assess instrument performance and accuracy. Activities include algorithm verification, and the comparison of SST measurements from AATSR with those collected from buoys, precision radiometers, and modelled SST analysis fields. Data will be collected by scientists worldwide, over a range of geographic locations, sites and seasons. Validation results will be explicitly fed back into the AATSR operations programme, thus contributing to the successful commissioning of the instrument in the six-month period after launch. |
Year | DOI | Venue |
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2002 | 10.1109/IGARSS.2002.1025122 | IGARSS |
Keywords | Field | DocType |
oceanographic techniques,remote sensing,550 to 12000 nm,aatsr,advanced along track scanning radiometer,envisat,ir,sst,accuracy,algorithm,infrared,measurement technique,ocean,performance,satellite remote sensing,sea surface temperature,validation,visible,temperature measurement,seasonality,global climate change,ocean temperature,radiometry,scientific research | Global warming,Meteorology,Satellite,Sea surface temperature,Computer science,Remote sensing,AATSR,Radiometer | Conference |
Volume | Citations | PageRank |
1 | 1 | 0.42 |
References | Authors | |
0 | 3 | |
Name | Order | Citations | PageRank |
|---|---|---|---|
| Edwards, M.C. | 1 | 1 | 0.42 |
| Llewellyn-Jones, D. | 2 | 1 | 1.09 |
| Tait, H. | 3 | 1 | 0.42 |