Print Email Facebook Twitter The performance of CryoSat-2 fully-focussed SAR for inland water-level estimation Title The performance of CryoSat-2 fully-focussed SAR for inland water-level estimation Author Kleinherenbrink, M. (TU Delft Mathematical Geodesy and Positioning) Naeije, M.C. (TU Delft Astrodynamics & Space Missions) Slobbe, D.C. (TU Delft Physical and Space Geodesy) Egido, Alejandro (NOAA Laboratory for Satellite Altimetry; Global Science and Technology) Smith, Walter (NOAA Laboratory for Satellite Altimetry) Date 2020 Abstract This paper applies the Fully-Focussed SAR (FF-SAR) algorithm to CryoSat-2 full-bit-rate data to measure water levels of lakes and canals in the Netherlands, and validates these measurements by comparing them to heights measured by gauges. Over Lake IJssel, a medium-sized lake, the FF-SAR height is biased about 6 cm below the gauge height, and a similar bias is found at six sites where CryoSat-2 crosses rivers and canals. The precision of the FF-SAR measurements depends on the extent of multi-looking (incoherent averaging along-track) applied. Over Lake IJssel the precision varies from 4 to 11 cm, decreasing as multi-looking increases. The precision of FF-SAR with 100 m of multi-looking is equivalent to that of the standard delay/Doppler processing, which has an along-track resolution of about 300 m. The width and orientation of rivers and canals limits the maximum available multi-looking. After removing the 6 cm bias, FF-SAR heights of rivers and canals have an accuracy between 2 cm and several decimeters, primarily depending on the presence of other water bodies lying within the cross-track measurement footprint, as these contaminate the waveform. We demonstrate that FF-SAR processing is able to resolve and measure small ditches only a few meters in width. The visibility of these signals depends on the angle at which CryoSat-2 crosses the ditch and on whether or not the ditch remains straight within CryoSat-2’s field of view. In the best-case scenario, straight ditches at nearly 90° to the CryoSat-2 ground track, the ditch signal has high enough signal-to-noise to allow sub-decimeter accuracy of FF-SAR height measurement. Subject AltimetryCryoSat-2FF-SARInland waterValidation To reference this document use: http://resolver.tudelft.nl/uuid:691420d5-eab1-4590-bfec-0e95d080a973 DOI https://doi.org/10.1016/j.rse.2019.111589 Embargo date 2020-12-11 ISSN 0034-4257 Source Remote Sensing of Environment: an interdisciplinary journal, 237 Bibliographical note Accepted Author Manuscript Part of collection Institutional Repository Document type journal article Rights © 2020 M. Kleinherenbrink, M.C. Naeije, D.C. Slobbe, Alejandro Egido, Walter Smith Files PDF outfile_p43_78_Marcel_Kle ... nbrink.pdf 16.87 MB Close viewer /islandora/object/uuid:691420d5-eab1-4590-bfec-0e95d080a973/datastream/OBJ/view