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A Study on the Effectiveness of GNSS Buoys at Harvest

Andy Wu (Jet Propulsion Laboratory, California Institute of Technology, United States)

Shailen Desai (Jet Propulsion Laboratory, California Institute of Technology, United States); Bruce Haines (Jet Propulsion Laboratory, California Institute of Technology, United States)

Event: 2023 Ocean Surface Topography Science Team Meeting

Session: Regional and Global CAL/VAL for Assembling a Climate Data Record

Presentation type: Poster

The Harvest platform, located 10 km off the coast of California, has been an important verification site for altimetry reference missions for over 30 years. Due to the recent decommissioning of the platform, there
is now a void in what has been three decades of continuous data in that region. In anticipation of this decommissioning, a set of buoys with GNSS receivers was dispatched in the region to investigate the feasibility of replacing the tide gauge measurements from the Harvest platform with the GNSS-derived positions of the buoys.

We present results comparing one year of overlapping data between the Harvest tide gauges and the GNSS buoys. We consider the effects of wave models, attitude estimation, and multi-GNSS kinematic position estimation as methods for mitigating errors between the two devices.

Contribution: CVL2023-A_Study_on_the_Effectiveness_of_GNSS_Buoys_at_Harvest.pdf (pdf, 1331 ko)

Corresponding author:

Andy Wu

Jet Propulsion Laboratory, California Institute of Technology

United States

andy.wu@jpl.nasa.gov

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