Main points
  • To access deliverables and data please register and login under User Panel.
  • CRUCIAL is funded in successful response to ESA ITT ESRIN/AO/1-6827/11/I-NB, to investigate the application of CryoSat-2 data over inland water.
  • CryoSat's primary instrument is SIRAL (SAR Interferometric Radar Altimeter). SIRAL operates in one of three modes (Low Resolution Mode(LRM), Synthetic Aperture Radar(SAR) and Interferometric Synthetic Aperture Radar(SARIN).
  • Expertise in satellite radar altimetry, including generation of inland water heights from SAR/SARin Level 1A waveform data.
  • Expertise of River Modelling to highlight the potential of inland water heights from Cryosat-2.
  • The project is investigating innovative land and water applications from Cryosat-2 with a forward-look component to the future Sentinel-3 mission.
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News

6/12/2007

Access to Deliverables requires registration. Please register or login under "User Panel"

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2/8/2017

Final Presentations

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11/5/2017

Posters and publications produced by the CRUCIAL team; the accepted CRUCIAL deliverables and data etc used in the project are available to download

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1/5/2017

The Final Presentation for the CRUCIAL project was held at ESRIN, Frascati, Italy on June 6 2017.

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