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24.01.2012 16:50 Age: 12 yrs

[Envisat] New orbit standards in GDRs and in Ssalto/Duacs products

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To improve the long-term stability of the GDR orbit solutions, new orbit determination standards are applied for Envisat which are now included in the Ssalto/Duacs products.

Precise Orbit Determination models applied in GDR orbits since July 2008 were referred as produced with GDR-C standards. New orbit standards, named GDR-D, are now applied for Envisat to improve the long-term stability of the GDR orbit solutions from:

  • January 21st 2012, for the first MOE in IGDR,
  • cycle 111, for the first POE in GDR.

Ssalto/Duacs products currently integrate those new orbit standards in real-time and near-real time products.

The main expected impact of this improvement should be a jump in data induced by the POE standards changes in GDR; which should be taken into account in the climate studies.

NB: These new standards GDR-D only concern the orbit standards; they are not applied to the product standard reference which are currently referred as GDR-C (See the tables on Corrections and models applied for NRT and RT products, in the <link fileadmin documents data tools hdbk_duacs.pdf download>Ssalto/Duacs User Handbook).

Feel free to contact us if you have any questions.

Further information:

  • <link internal-link>Precise Orbit Determination
  • L.Cerri et al.: Improving the long-term stability of the GDR orbit solutions, OSTST 2011 presentation (<link http: www.aviso.oceanobs.com fileadmin documents ostst oral>pdf).

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