Evaluation of CryoSat-2 for height retrieval over the Himalayan range

Amaury Dehecq (1) , Noel Gourmelen (2) , Andrew Shepherd (3) , Robert Cullen (4) , Emmanuel Trouvé (1)

1 LISTIC - Laboratoire d'Informatique, Systèmes, Traitement de l'Information et de la Connaissance
2 IPGS - Institut de physique du globe de Strasbourg
3 SEE - School of Earth and Environment [Leeds]
4 ESTEC - European Space Research and Technology Centre

Here we present the first results of quality assessment of height retrieval by CryoSat­2 over the snow and ice covered Karakoram region. We simulate the successive areas tracked by CryoSat in SARIN mode, compare them to glacier regions and estimate the region of interest covered by CS2.

Mots clés: Cryosat 2; glaciers; himalaya; remote sensing

Domaines: Géophysique [physics.geo-ph]; Géophysique [physics.geo-ph]; Milieux et Changements globaux

Amaury Dehecq, Noel Gourmelen, Andrew Shepherd, Robert Cullen, Emmanuel Trouvé. Evaluation of CryoSat-2 for height retrieval over the Himalayan range. CryoSat-2 third user workshop, Mar 2013, Dresden, Germany. ⟨hal-00973393⟩