Altimetry explained
With the 25 Years of Progress in Radar Altimetry Symposium underway in the Azores, Dr Marcello Passaro from the Technical University of Munich joins ESA web TV to explain how satellite altimeters measure the height of the sea surface. This information is essential for monitoring sea-level rise.
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Excellent video
What type of impuls do the satellite use is it ultrasonic sound😕😕😕
wow
Good interview. What about use of AI in the analysis?
she could monitor my sea lever rise any time if you dicifer my innuendo
Surely the coastal area without boats is bigger that with boats. Why would you want to measure coastal areas anyway?
Olá ESA✋😀
Awesome^^
Wake up people! Did you not hear him say measuring coast line rise was hard, and they had to "reinterpret" or "reinvent" the way they looked at the data. The degradation rate of a falling satellite is not precisely known, and the error rate for altimetry is about 4" so by there own reckoning, if they are wrong, nothing has happened in the 25 years they have been a "science."
Can satellite altimetry be useful in ocean floor mapping?
Thank you for sharing this principle in a nutshell.