The Roles of the S3MPC: Monitoring, Validation and Evolution of Sentinel-3 Altimetry Observations

The Sentinel-3 Mission Performance Centre (S3MPC) is tasked by the European Space Agency (ESA) to monitor the health of the Copernicus Sentinel-3 satellites and ensure a high data quality to the users. This paper deals exclusively with the effort devoted to the altimeter and microwave radiometer, bo...

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Published in:	Remote Sensing
Main Authors:	Graham D. Quartly, Francesco Nencioli, Matthias Raynal, Pascal Bonnefond, Pablo Nilo Garcia, Albert Garcia-Mondéjar, Adrián Flores de la Cruz, Jean-Francois Crétaux, Nicolas Taburet, Marie-Laure Frery, Mathilde Cancet, Alan Muir, David Brockley, Malcolm McMillan, Saleh Abdalla, Sara Fleury, Emeline Cadier, Qi Gao, Maria Jose Escorihuela, Mònica Roca, Muriel Bergé-Nguyen, Olivier Laurain, Jérôme Bruniquel, Pierre Féménias, Bruno Lucas
Format:	Article
Language:	English
Published:	MDPI AG 2020-05-01
Subjects:	altimeter calibration validation Copernicus/Sentinel-3 microwave radiometer ocean
Online Access:	https://www.mdpi.com/2072-4292/12/11/1763