2016 SAR Altimetry Workshop

2016 SAR Altimetry Workshop
The objective of this workshop is to make a progress status about SAR altimetry processing and its applications notably in coastal areas but also for inland waters. The workshop will be organized around oral presentations and posters.
Monday, October 31 2016, 08:00 - 21:00
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Mon, Oct 31 2016,08:00 - 08:30 Registration and Presentation upload

Opening session of the “New era of altimetry, new challenges” meeting (Mon, Oct 31 2016, 08:30 - 11:00)

Schedule Room(s) Type Title of the abstract Contribution
Mon, Oct 31 2016,
08:30 - 09:00
Auditorium Formal Welcome from Mayor of La Rochelle, CNES, EUMETSAT, ESA and European Commission ( et al.) (pdf, 2215 kB)
Mon, Oct 31 2016,
09:00 - 09:30
Auditorium Formal 25 years of high precision altimetry: what have we learnt? what are the new challenges? (Cazenave et al.) (pdf, 6680 kB)
Mon, Oct 31 2016,
09:30 - 10:00
Auditorium Formal Sentinel-3 mission: status and first results (Donlon et al.) (pdf, 5011 kB)
Mon, Oct 31 2016,10:00 - 10:30 Coffee break
Mon, Oct 31 2016,
10:30 - 10:40
Auditorium Formal Introduction of the SAR Altimetry Workshop (Boy et al.) (pdf, 170 kB)
Mon, Oct 31 2016,
10:40 - 11:00
Auditorium Formal SAR altimetry: precedent, present, and prospects (fifty years following Apollo 17) (Raney et al.) (pdf, 6952 kB)
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Innovative SAR processing methods (Mon, Oct 31 2016, 11:00 - 12:30)

Schedule Room(s) Type Title of the abstract Contribution
Mon, Oct 31 2016,
11:00 - 11:15
Auditorium Oral A review of topical issues in SAR Altimetry (Cipollini et al.) (pdf, 1380 kB)
Mon, Oct 31 2016,
11:15 - 11:30
Auditorium Oral Some surprisingly wonderful aspects of fully focused SAR altimetry (Smith et al.) (pdf, 3516 kB)
Mon, Oct 31 2016,
11:30 - 11:45
Auditorium Oral Squeezing SARIn capabilities for complex scenarios: L1 & L2 processing improvements (Garcia-Mondejar et al.) (pdf, 2003 kB)
Mon, Oct 31 2016,
11:45 - 12:00
Auditorium Oral Evaluating the performance of Sentinel-3 SRAL SAR Altimetry in the Coastal and Open Ocean, and developing improved retrieval methods – The SCOOP Project. (Cotton et al.) (pdf, 3358 kB)
Mon, Oct 31 2016,
12:00 - 12:15
Auditorium Oral Results from observations to detect sea state bias from SAR mode altimetry. (Bellingham et al.) (pdf, 2876 kB)
Mon, Oct 31 2016,
12:15 - 12:30
Auditorium Oral DeDop: The tool to process altimetry data yourself (Roca i Aparici et al.) (pdf, 3401 kB)
Mon, Oct 31 2016,
18:30 - 19:30
Grande Halle Poster SAR altimetry processing on demand service for cryosat-2 and sentinel-3 at esa g-pod (Benveniste et al.)
Mon, Oct 31 2016,
18:30 - 19:30
Grande Halle Poster SAR ALTIMETRY AT 80 Hz (Dinardo et al.)
Mon, Oct 31 2016,
18:30 - 19:30
Grande Halle Poster Application and Evaluation of ACDC Delay-Doppler processing over CryoSat-2 for Open-Ocean zones (Makhoul et al.)
Mon, Oct 31 2016,
18:30 - 19:30
Grande Halle Poster Methodology and Validation of SAR and SARin Full Bit Rate Altimetric Waveforms and Heights from the CRUCIAL Project. (Moore et al.)
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Mon, Oct 31 2016,12:30 - 14:00 Lunch

SAR mode performances: SAR CALVAL from Cryosat-2 and Sentinel-3 (Mon, Oct 31 2016, 14:00 - 15:30)

Schedule Room(s) Type Title of the abstract Contribution
Mon, Oct 31 2016,
14:00 - 14:15
Auditorium Oral Sentinel-3a Delay Doppler Processing: Assessment over the Global Ocean. (Raynal et al.) (pdf, 2606 kB)
Mon, Oct 31 2016,
14:15 - 14:30
Auditorium Oral Results over Ocean of the SAR Mode Processing in Sentinel-3A Products (Labroue et al.) (pdf, 2994 kB)
Mon, Oct 31 2016,
14:30 - 14:45
Auditorium Oral Does Swell Impacts Significant Wave Height Measurements from SAR Altimetry? (Abdalla et al.) (pdf, 1367 kB)
Mon, Oct 31 2016,
14:45 - 15:00
Auditorium Oral The coastal performance of SAR altimetry from CryoSat-2 and Sentinel-3 (Cipollini et al.) (pdf, 8883 kB)
Mon, Oct 31 2016,
15:00 - 15:15
Auditorium Oral Performance comparison of Sentinel-3 and CryoSat-2 Delay-Doppler (SAR) processing baselines over Open Ocean and Coastal zones (Makhoul et al.) (pdf, 7259 kB)
Mon, Oct 31 2016,
15:15 - 15:30
Auditorium Oral Corsica: linking historical and current missions with Sentinel-3A (Bonnefond et al.) (pdf, 872 kB)
Mon, Oct 31 2016,
18:30 - 19:30
Grande Halle Poster Monitoring Sentinel-3A: S3MPC activities to ensure a consistent accurate dataset (Quartly et al.) (pdf, 8283 kB)
Mon, Oct 31 2016,
18:30 - 19:30
Grande Halle Poster Transponder Calibration in SAR altimetry: from CryoSat-2 to Sentinel-3 (Garcia-Mondejar et al.)
Mon, Oct 31 2016,
18:30 - 19:30
Grande Halle Poster Increasing the opportunities for the calibration of CryoSat interferometer by operational SARIn acquisitions over ocean (Scagliola et al.)
Mon, Oct 31 2016,
18:30 - 19:30
Grande Halle Poster The Sentinel-3A SRAL Instrument Calibration Monitoring (Garcia et al.)
Mon, Oct 31 2016,
18:30 - 19:30
Grande Halle Poster A Regional Assessment of the Sentinel-3 STM L1b & L2 SAR/PLRM Data Products with an enhanced processing baseline (Dinardo et al.)
Mon, Oct 31 2016,
18:30 - 19:30
Grande Halle Poster Early Assessment of Sentinel-3A measurements over Arctic Sea Ice (Leuliette et al.) (pdf, 5912 kB)
Mon, Oct 31 2016,
18:30 - 19:30
Grande Halle Poster First analysis of the Sentinel-3 SRAL data over inland water (Thibaut et al.)
Mon, Oct 31 2016,
18:30 - 19:30
Grande Halle Poster Validation of CryoSat-2 SAR and SARin modes over rivers for the SHAPE project (Bercher et al.)
Mon, Oct 31 2016,
18:30 - 19:30
Grande Halle Poster Coastal sea level in norway from cryosat-2 sar altimetry (Andersen et al.)
Mon, Oct 31 2016,
18:30 - 19:30
Grande Halle Poster Sentinel-3 mission: first results from the commissioning phase over ocean, coastal areas, inland waters and polar regions (Boy et al.)
Mon, Oct 31 2016,
18:30 - 19:30
Grande Halle Poster Assessment of CryoSat-2 and AltiKa Sea Level Anomaly time series in the coastal strip of the Gulf of Cadiz (Gomez-Enri et al.)
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Mon, Oct 31 2016,15:30 - 16:00 Coffee break

Applications, SAR for science (Mon, Oct 31 2016, 16:00 - 17:30)

Schedule Room(s) Type Title of the abstract Contribution
Mon, Oct 31 2016,
16:00 - 16:15
Auditorium Oral Exploiting Cryosat-2 stack data for nadir-lead detection in sea-ice regions (Passaro et al.) (pdf, 2851 kB)
Mon, Oct 31 2016,
16:15 - 16:30
Auditorium Oral SAR-mode altimetry performance over the Antarctic ice sheet (Aublanc et al.) (pdf, 3776 kB)
Mon, Oct 31 2016,
16:30 - 16:45
Auditorium Oral Characterization of SAR Mode Altimetry Data over Inland Waters – SHAPE project (Fabry et al.) (pdf, 8138 kB)
Mon, Oct 31 2016,
16:45 - 17:00
Auditorium Oral Scientific Applications of Fully-Focused SAR Altimetry (Egido et al.) (pdf, 6167 kB)
Mon, Oct 31 2016,
17:00 - 17:15
Auditorium Oral On the assimilation of Sentinel-3A in the wave model MFWAM : global and regional scales (Aouf et al.) (pdf, 1857 kB)
Mon, Oct 31 2016,
17:15 - 17:30
Auditorium Oral SAR altimetry in the Gulf of Bengal (Fenoglio-Marc et al.) (pdf, 1736 kB)
Mon, Oct 31 2016,
18:30 - 19:30
Grande Halle Poster Automated Generation of Inland Water Level Changes From Satellite Radar Altimetry (Lee et al.)
Mon, Oct 31 2016,
18:30 - 19:30
Grande Halle Poster The Sentinel-3 Hydrologic Altimetry Processor prototypE project (Fabry et al.)
Mon, Oct 31 2016,
18:30 - 19:30
Grande Halle Poster Cryo-SEANICE : CryoSat SciEnce-oriented data ANalysis over Sea-ICE areas (Fabry et al.)
Mon, Oct 31 2016,
18:30 - 19:30
Grande Halle Poster Impact of SAR Processing Parameters on Sea Ice Floes and Leads Height Measurements (Fleury et al.)
Mon, Oct 31 2016,
18:30 - 19:30
Grande Halle Poster Wave vertical orbital velocity effects on Doppler Altimeter waveform and SSH measurement (Pugliese Carratelli et al.)
Mon, Oct 31 2016,
18:30 - 19:30
Grande Halle Poster Wave climate observed from altimeters: trends and extremes (Stopa et al.)
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Future missions, recommendations and round table (Mon, Oct 31 2016, 17:30 - 18:30)

Schedule Room(s) Type Title of the abstract Contribution
Mon, Oct 31 2016,
17:30 - 18:00
Auditorium Formal Future altimetry missions (CNES, NASA, ESA, EUMETSAT, NOAA) (Picot et al.) (pdf, 4928 kB)
Mon, Oct 31 2016,
18:30 - 19:30
Grande Halle Poster Sentinel-6 altimeter end-to-end simulator to assess global mission performance (Aublanc et al.)
Mon, Oct 31 2016,
18:30 - 19:30
Grande Halle Poster Sentinel-6 Poseidon-4 L1B simulator: a model based simulator for end-to-end performance evaluation (Scagliola et al.)
Mon, Oct 31 2016,
18:30 - 19:30
Grande Halle Poster Analysis of particular aspects of the Sentinel-6 altimeter processing using Cryosat-2 data (Moreau et al.)
Mon, Oct 31 2016,
18:30 - 19:30
Grande Halle Poster Sea surface KInematics Multiscale monitoring (SKIM): a proposal for ESA Earth Explorer 9 (Ardhuin et al.)
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Mon, Oct 31 2016,19:30 - 21:00 Icebreaker