6th Plenary Meeting (#17)RA-2/MWR Cross-Cal & Val Team, ESRIN 25-27/03/03 Sixth Plenary ENVISAT RADAR ALTIMETRY CROSS-CALIBRATION and VALIDATION TEAM Meeting (#17) Jérôme Benveniste ENVISAT RA-2/MWR Cross-Calibration and Validation Team Coordinator European Space Agency, Earth Observation Applications Department ESRIN, Via Galileo Galilei, I-00044, Frascati (RM), Italy, (

6th Plenary Meeting (#17)RA-2/MWR Cross-Cal & Val Team, ESRIN 25-27/03/03 Before recalling the objectives of the meeting, a few important matters that need immediate dealing with…. Welcome to ESRIN !

6th Plenary Meeting (#17)RA-2/MWR Cross-Cal & Val Team, ESRIN 25-27/03/03 Participants to tonight’s dinner please sign up! How many of us have a car? Do you want to go to the same one than last time?

6th Plenary Meeting (#17)RA-2/MWR Cross-Cal & Val Team, ESRIN 25-27/03/03 You are invited to a welcome cocktail at 17h30 in the Canteen

6th Plenary Meeting (#17)RA-2/MWR Cross-Cal & Val Team, ESRIN 25-27/03/03 Meeting Logistics Coffee breaks at 10:30 and 15:30 Lunch break at 13:00 On the floor below: –Self service canteen –Travel office »Taxi reservation forms to fill out (leave 2 hours before take-off) –Bank, ATM A complimentary shuttle leaves the Frascati Piazza Roma (newspaper stand) at 8:05 and 8:20 and back at 17:15 and 18:15

6th Plenary Meeting (#17)RA-2/MWR Cross-Cal & Val Team, ESRIN 25-27/03/03 Objectives of the Meeting Present results obtained on nearly three cycles of GDRs and two cycles of SGDRs Discuss cross-calibration results and validation status Make recommendations for future evolutions Prepare for publication at EGS-AGU-EUG & IGARSS Prepare for Final Report

6th Plenary Meeting (#17)RA-2/MWR Cross-Cal & Val Team, ESRIN 25-27/03/03 L=1 March 2002, SO=12 March 2002 (L+1m) First data report (on S-O day 12/03) (L+2m) Preliminary report from Esrin in house verif (10 may) (L+2m) CCVT splinter meeting on products and algorithm verification (L+3m) Data release to CCVTeam (15 June) (L+4m) Interim Report (prod val, l2 verif, prel x-cal) (L+6m) End comm ph Cross-cal and Val full report (L+6m) RA-2/MWR CCVT plenary meeting (9-10 Sept) (L+6m) Calibration review (10-13 Sept) (L+9m) Validation Workshop (report+ presentation) (10-13/ Dec) (L+10m) Final RA-2/MWR CCVT meeting (9-10/12 or 14-15/01/03) (L+12m) Final report on Cross-cal (L+12m) end of RA-2/MWR CCVT project Original Schedule 15 August for FDMAR 9 November for GDR etc. Preliminary product validation skipped Extended schedule… Jan-Feb-Mar/03 Processing of 3 cycles

6th Plenary Meeting (#17)RA-2/MWR Cross-Cal & Val Team, ESRIN 25-27/03/03 (L+9m) Validation Workshop (report+ presentation) (10-13/ Dec) (L+10m) Acquisition and processing of three cycles until 17 Jan 03 (L+13m) Sixth RA-2/MWR CCVT meeting (25-27 March 03) (L+14m) EGS/AGU/EUG Special session Geodesy-13 “Impact of new and planned mission”, Nice (F) (7-11 April 03) (L+15 m) Final report on Cross-calibration and Validation (May 03) (L+15m) end of RA-2/MWR CCVT project (end May 03) IGARSS Special Session, Toulouse (F) (July 03) Extended Schedule

6th Plenary Meeting (#17)RA-2/MWR Cross-Cal & Val Team, ESRIN 25-27/03/03 Agenda

6th Plenary Meeting (#17)RA-2/MWR Cross-Cal & Val Team, ESRIN 25-27/03/03 ENVISAT MISSION STATUS By Henri Laur, ENVISAT Mission Manager

6th Plenary Meeting (#17)RA-2/MWR Cross-Cal & Val Team, ESRIN 25-27/03/03 Data Availability Presented by Nicolas Picot, CNES (F-PAC)

6th Plenary Meeting (#17)RA-2/MWR Cross-Cal & Val Team, ESRIN 25-27/03/03 Agenda