SRAL profiling Antarctica Peninsula

Sentinel-3 SRAL LAND acquired on 20 November 2016 at 03:42:28 UTC
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Sentinel-3 SRAL LAND acquired on 20 December 2016 at 12:23:03 UTC
Author(s): Sentinel Vision team, VisioTerra, France - svp@visioterra.fr
Keyword(s): climate change, coastal, polar, sea ice, land ice, altimetry, range, cryosphere, Antarctica Peninsula
Fig. 1 - Corrected ocog altimeter range in 20Hz C-band using negative scale and positive offset.
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Fig. 2 - Ground altitude contributes negatively to the range. Red indicates higher range, blue indicates lower range.
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Fig. 3 - Land ice and sea ice are often separated by an important change in slopes on the profiles.
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Contains modified Copernicus Sentinel data 2024, processed by VisioTerra.
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