Satellite Altimetry: Technology and Application in Geodesy
A special issue of Remote Sensing (ISSN 2072-4292). This special issue belongs to the section "Environmental Remote Sensing".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (31 December 2022) | Viewed by 21770
Special Issue Editors
Interests: gravity field determination; satellite altimetry; gravimetry; geodetic reference systems and transformations; state survey; sea level
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Dear Colleagues,
Radar satellite altimetry has made substantial impacts in geodesy, as well as in geophysics, oceanography, glaciology, and climate monitoring, over the last three decades. It has improved our understanding of marine gravity, seafloor relief (bathymetry), tectonic plate motion, water mass balance, and sea-level change, enabling improvements in height system definitions, modeling the sea-level projections and their impact on the coast, establishing the hazard warning systems, etc. With the recent advances in SAR (Synthetic Aperture Radar), altimetry has shown a strong potential for ice sheet topography monitoring as well as hydrological research, e.g., for terrestrial surface water level or evaporation monitoring. This Special Issue will present reviews and recent advances of general or specific interest in the use of radar altimetry in geodesy. Authors are invited to submit manuscripts related to any aspect of radar altimetry technique or geodetic applications, including the following:
- Marine geoid/bathymetry modeling (all aspects including the theoretical and methodological issues, modeling results, and applications);
- Plate tectonic monitoring and related research issues;
- Applied studies that utilize the altimeter data;
- Satellite altimeter data related to the vertical height system issues;
- The application of coastal altimeter data;
- The application of SAR, SARin, and Ka-band altimetry;
- Improvements expected from the missions to be launched soon (e.g., Sentinel-6).
Prof. Dr. Tomislav Bašić
Dr. Marijan Grgić
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- Marine gravity
- Satellite-derived bathymetry
- Sea level change
- Coastal altimetry
- Altimetry applications
- Vertical system unification
- Multi-system geodetic observations
- New altimeters
- Inland altimetry
- Delay-doppler altimetry
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