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Towards Operational Fiducial Reference Measurement (FRM) Data for the Calibration and Validation of the Sentinel-3 Surface Topography Mission over Inland Waters, Sea Ice, and Land Ice

open access: yesRemote Sensing, 2023
The Copernicus Sentinel-3 Surface Topography Mission (STM) Land Altimetry provides valuable surface elevation information over inland waters, sea ice, and land ice, thanks to its synthetic aperture radar (SAR) altimeter and its orbit that covers high ...
Elodie Da Silva   +38 more
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Observational Needs of Sea Surface Temperature

open access: yesFrontiers in Marine Science, 2019
Sea surface temperature (SST) is a fundamental physical variable for understanding, quantifying and predicting complex interactions between the ocean and the atmosphere.
Anne G. O’Carroll   +26 more
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ROSACE: A Proposed European Design for the Copernicus Ocean Colour System Vicarious Calibration Infrastructure

open access: yesRemote Sensing, 2020
The European Copernicus programme ensures long-term delivery of high-quality, global satellite ocean colour radiometry (OCR) observations from its Sentinel-3 (S3) satellite series carrying the ocean and land colour instrument (OLCI).
David Antoine   +23 more
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European Space Agency (ESA) Calibration/Validation Strategy for Optical Land-Imaging Satellites and Pathway towards Interoperability

open access: yesRemote Sensing, 2021
Land remote sensing capabilities in the optical domain have dramatically increased in the past decade, owing to the unprecedented growth of space-borne systems providing a wealth of measurements at enhanced spatial, temporal and spectral resolutions. Yet,
Fabrizio Niro   +8 more
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Intercomparison of low- and high-resolution infrared spectrometers for ground-based solar remote sensing measurements of total column concentrations of CO2, CH4, and CO [PDF]

open access: yesAtmospheric Measurement Techniques, 2020
The Total Carbon Column Observing Network (TCCON) is the baseline ground-based network of instruments that record solar absorption spectra from which accurate and precise column-averaged dry-air mole fractions of CO2 (XCO2), CH4 (XCH4), CO (XCO), and ...
M. K. Sha   +18 more
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Field Intercomparison of Radiometer Measurements for Ocean Colour Validation

open access: yesRemote Sensing, 2020
A field intercomparison was conducted at the Acqua Alta Oceanographic Tower (AAOT) in the northern Adriatic Sea, from 9 to 19 July 2018 to assess differences in the accuracy of in- and above-water radiometer measurements used for the validation of ocean ...
Gavin Tilstone   +17 more
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Towards a New MAX-DOAS Measurement Site in the Po Valley: NO2 Total VCDs

open access: yesRemote Sensing, 2022
Multi-AXis Differential Optical Absorption Spectroscopy (MAX-DOAS) instruments are used worldwide to retrieve pollutant information from visible (VIS) and ultra-violet (UV) diffuse solar spectra.
Paolo Pettinari   +5 more
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Validation and Conformity Testing of Sentinel-3 Green Instantaneous FAPAR and Canopy Chlorophyll Content Products

open access: yesRemote Sensing
This article presents validation and conformity testing of the Sentinel-3 Ocean Land Colour Instrument (OLCI) green instantaneous fraction of absorbed photosynthetically active radiation (FAPAR) and OLCI terrestrial chlorophyll index (OTCI) canopy ...
Fernando Camacho   +9 more
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Sentinel-3A/B SLSTR Pre-Launch Calibration of the Thermal InfraRed Channels

open access: yesRemote Sensing, 2020
The first two models of the Sea and Land Surface Temperature Radiometers (SLSTR) for the European Copernicus Sentinel-3 missions were tested prior to launch at the Rutherford Appleton Laboratory space instrument calibration facility. The pre-launch tests
Dave Smith   +13 more
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Sentinel-3 SLSTR SST Validation using a Fiducial Reference Measurements (FRM) Service [PDF]

open access: yes, 2020
ESA is building on almost 15 years of continuous Fiducial Reference Measurements (FRM) from UK-funded shipborne radiometers by establishing a service to provide historic and ongoing FRM measurements to the wider SST community through an International SST FRM Radiometer Network (ships4sst).
Werenfrid Wimmer   +8 more
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