NOAA's Laboratory for Satellite Altimetry has been producing real-time altimetry products from ERS-1 and ERS-2 since 1995. Significant enhancements are made to ESA's fast-delivery data sets, most notably the addition of orbit information provided by the Delft University of Technology. In late 1998, several enhancements were made to the NOAA/Delft altimetry products: ESA's fast-delivery data now...

After GLAS (Geo-science Laser Altimeter System) loaded on the ICESat (Ice Cloud and land Elevation Satellite), satellite laser altimeter attracts more and more attention. ZY3-02 equipped with the Chinese first satellite laser altimeter has been successfully launched on 30 May, 2016. The geometric calibration is an important step for the laser data processing and application. The method to calcu...

More than 27 years of high precision satellite altimetry enables analysis recent changes in global mean sea level (GMSL). Several previous studies present estimates the trend and acceleration GMSL; however, all are exclusively performed with data from TOPEX/Poseidon, Jason-1, Jason-2 Jason-3 missions (TPJ data). In this study we extend record both time space by including independent ERS-1, ERS-...

using satellite altimetry derived mean sea level (msl), geopotential coefficients in terms of ellipsoidal harmonics from recent satellite gravimetry missions, gravity potential values over a grid consisting of 33,486 points at global sea areas are computed and the mean value of the gravity potential at msl is calculated as a new geoid’s potential value. in this way we have exactly followed the ...