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Learn about satellite altimetry, a technique that measures the topography of the sea surface and its change in time. Explore how satellite altimetry data are used for oceanography, climate, hydrology, and renewable energy research.
- Sea Surface Height
Satellite altimetry application case studies from the...
- Tide Gauge
The coordinates and distances between tide gauge stations...
- Altimetry
Radar Altimetry for Monitoring the Antarctic Ice Sheet....
- Seamount
Coastal and Submarine Geomorphology. Neil C. Mitchell, in...
- Geoids
CCAR generates a gap-free SSHa product that uses satellite...
- Sea Level Change
For the last ~100 years, direct measurements of sea-level...
- View Chapter
Satellite altimetry was designed for open ocean, however, as...
- Sea Level Rise
Rising Sea Levels. Roland Gehrels, in Climate Change (Second...
- Sea Surface Height
Satellite radar altimetry measures the time taken by a radar pulse to travel from the satellite antenna to the surface and back to the satellite receiver. This measurement yields a wealth of information that can be used for a wide range of applications – in particular, for understanding sea-level rise.
May 15, 2017 · Satellite altimetry is a radar technique measuring the topography of the Earth surface. It was initially designed for the measuring of the topography of the sea surface with reference to an ellipsoid and for the determination of the marine geoid.
OpenAltimetry is a tool for visualizing and downloading surface elevation profiles from ICESat and ICESat-2 satellite missions. You can see how different types of heights have changed across the Earth over time and overlay MODIS cloud cover data.
Apr 13, 2021 · Radar satellite altimetry provides global, frequent, and precise measurements of uniform accuracy of the sea level height related to a desired geodetic reference frame at different time epochs and from various altimeter sensors.
Jan 1, 2021 · Learn about satellite altimetry, a technique of measuring heights of the Earth’s surface from a satellite flying at an altitude of about 1000 km. Find out how altimetry provides information on ocean circulation, gravity, bathymetry, climate change, and more.
Jan 1, 2016 · Satellite radar altimetry is a technique that measures the vertical distance between the satellite and nadir surface of the Earth through measuring the time taken by radar pulses to travel from satellite antenna to surface and back to the altimeter.
