CryoSat Performance Monitoring And Product QA
Abstract
The SIRAL instrument on-board CryoSat 2 has been successfully commissioned and is working well within specifications. The instrument has been characterised on the ground, and in-flight by the Cal/Val campaign. As with any Earth Observation mission it is important to continue to monitor instrument performance in-flight in order to detect any anomalous behaviour and to detect signs of measurement drift due to component ageing. During the commissioning phase a team at UCL-MSSL developed a set of tools to monitor certain aspects of instrument performance. Other tools were implemented to provide routine QA for important product parameters. We present an overview of these tools and QA website and discuss the performance features and trends observed to date. These tools will continue to operate throughout the mission as part of the expert support given to ESA by MSSL. The outputs can be viewed by interested users and serve to support confidence in the interpretation of data from the altimeter measurement system.
- Publication:
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CryoSat Validation Workshop
- Pub Date:
- February 2011
- Bibcode:
- 2011ESASP.693E..10M