ALTICORE - A consortium serving european seas with coastal altimetry

Author

Vignudelli, Stefano ; Roblou, L. ; Snaith, H.M. ; Cipollini, Paolo ; Venuti, F. ; Kostianoy, A. ; Ginzburg, A. ; Lyard, F. ; Cretaux, J.F. ; Birol, F. ; Lebedev, S. ; Sirota, A. ; Medvedev, D. ; Khlebnikova, S. ; Mamedov, R. ; Ismatova, K. ; Alyev, A. ; N

Author_Institution

Ist. di Biofisica Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche, Pisa

fYear

2007

fDate

23-28 July 2007

Firstpage

5125

Lastpage

5128

Abstract

In this paper, we describe the ALTICORE (value added satellite ALTImetry in COastal REgions) initiative, a consortium aiming at providing high quality coastal altimetry over some European seas. Taking the Ligurian Sea in the NW Mediterranean as an example, which acts as a test zone for this work, we show the improvement in availability and quality of ENVISAT data, through our processing, when compared with the official altimetric products delivered by AVISO. We also introduce the building concepts of solutions for data search, extraction, update and delivery based on web-services. This grid-type infrastructure is being designed within ALTICORE.

Keywords

oceanographic regions; radar altimetry; ALTICORE; AVISO; ENVISAT data; European Seas; Ligurian Sea; coastal altimetry; data delivery; data extraction; data search; data update; grid-type infrastructure; northwest Mediterranean; satellite ALTImetry in COastal REgions; web-services; Altimetry; Data mining; Geophysical measurements; Humans; Marine technology; Ocean temperature; Pollution measurement; Satellites; Sea measurements; Sea surface; Grid; Mediterranean Sea; coastal zone; component; satellite altimetry; web services;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Geoscience and Remote Sensing Symposium, 2007. IGARSS 2007. IEEE International

Conference_Location

Barcelona

Print_ISBN

978-1-4244-1211-2

Electronic_ISBN

978-1-4244-1212-9

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/IGARSS.2007.4424015

Filename

4424015