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Systematic Global and Regional Altimeter/ Sea Level data

DAP_MG3_05

Global and regional sea level, continuous tracking over oceans including reprocessing of archived data for climatic application, when improved algorithms or auxiliary data become available.

This dataset will be built using instruments from
Mission Group 3: Medium-Resolution Land & Ocean Monitoring
(radar altimeter/sea level)

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DAP_MG3_05

Global and regional sea level, continuous tracking over oceans including reprocessing of archived data for climatic application, when improved algorithms or auxiliary data become available.

This dataset will be built using instruments from
Mission Group 3: Medium-Resolution Land & Ocean Monitoring
(radar altimeter/sea level)

Dataset Composition

Desired product specifications
Products shall be
- With geolocation accuracy of 100 m in latitude/longitude
- Accuracy of 10 cm in altitude for NRT, 5 cm for STC, 2 cm for offline

Delivery specification
Start of service January 2009
End of service: December 2011

Geographic Description

90
180-180
-90

Status

completed

Start Date: 2009-01-12

End Date: 2011-05-31

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Contact Point

GMES Services Coordinated Interface (SCI)
ESA - European Space Agency
gmesdata@esa.int

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