Improving SAR Altimeter processing over the coastal zone - the ESA HYDROCOASTAL project
- 1Satellite Oceanographic Consultants Ltd, Stockport, United Kingdom of Great Britain – England, Scotland, Wales (d.cotton@satoc.eu)
- *A full list of authors appears at the end of the abstract
Introduction
HYDROCOASTAL is a two year project funded by ESA, with the objective to maximise exploitation of SAR and SARin altimeter measurements in the coastal zone and inland waters, by evaluating and implementing new approaches to process SAR and SARin data from CryoSat-2, and SAR altimeter data from Sentinel-3A and Sentinel-3B. Optical data from Sentinel-2 MSI and Sentinel-3 OLCI instruments will also be used in generating River Discharge products.
New SAR and SARin processing algorithms for the coastal zone and inland waters will be developed and implemented and evaluated through an initial Test Data Set for selected regions. From the results of this evaluation a processing scheme will be implemented to generate global coastal zone and river discharge data sets.
A series of case studies will assess these products in terms of their scientific impacts.
All the produced data sets will be available on request to external researchers, and full descriptions of the processing algorithms will be provided
Objectives
The scientific objectives of HYDROCOASTAL are to enhance our understanding of interactions between the inland water and coastal zone, between the coastal zone and the open ocean, and the small scale processes that govern these interactions. Also the project aims to improve our capability to characterize the variation at different time scales of inland water storage, exchanges with the ocean and the impact on regional sea-level changes
The technical objectives are to develop and evaluate new SAR and SARin altimetry processing techniques in support of the scientific objectives, including stack processing, and filtering, and retracking. Also an improved Wet Troposphere Correction will be developed and evaluated.
Presentation
The presentation will describe the different SAR altimeter processing algorithms that are being evaluated in the first phase of the project, and present results from the evaluation of the initial test data set focusing on performance at the coast. It will also present the results of a study assessing regional tidal models.
P. D. Cotton (SatOC Ltd, UK), Albert Garcia-Mondejar, Ferran Gibert, Ester Vendrell (isardSAT, ES), Christine Gommenginger (NOC, UK), Ole Andersen, Karina Nielsen, Heidi Ranndal (DTU Space, DK), Luciana Fenoglio-Marc (University of Bonn, DE), Michele Scagliola (Aresys, IT), Mathilde Cancet (NOVELTIS, FR), Marcello Passaro, Denise Dettmerring (Technical University of Munich), Pierre Fabry (Along-Track, FR), Nicholas Bercher (AltiHydroLab.fr, FR), Angelica Tarpanelli (CNR-IRPI), Stefano Vignudelli (CNR- IBF), Francesco de Biasio (CNR-ISP), Peter Bauer-Gottwein (DTU Environment), M.J. Fernandes, Clara Lazaro (U Porto), Cornelis Slobbe, Marc Naeije (TU Delft), Jesus Gomez-Enri (University of Cadiz), Peter Thorne, Elena Zakharova (NUIM), Jérôme Benveniste (ESA-ESRIN), Marco Restano (SERCO, ESA)
How to cite: Cotton, D. and the HYDROCOASTAL: Improving SAR Altimeter processing over the coastal zone - the ESA HYDROCOASTAL project, EGU General Assembly 2022, Vienna, Austria, 23–27 May 2022, EGU22-1337, https://doi.org/10.5194/egusphere-egu22-1337, 2022.
