Sea Surface Height and Significant Wave Height Calibration Methodology by a GNSS Buoy Campaign for HY-2A Altimeter

	Sea Surface Height and Significant Wave Height Calibration Methodology by a GNSS Buoy Campaign for HY-2A Altimeter
	Xu, Xi-Yu; Xu, Ke; Shen, Hua; Liu, Ya-Long; Liu, He-Guang
刊名	IEEE JOURNAL OF SELECTED TOPICS IN APPLIED EARTH OBSERVATIONS AND REMOTE SENSING
	2016
卷号	9 期号:11 页码:5252-5261
关键词	Adaptive filters altimetry calibration marine equipment maximum-likelihood estimation (MLE) sea surface
ISSN号	1939-1404
通讯作者	Xu, XY (reprint author), Chinese Acad Sci, CAS Key Lab Microwave Remote Sensing, Natl Space Sci Ctr, Beijing 100190, Peoples R China.
英文摘要	GNSS buoys are innovative ocean instruments, which can simultaneously provide calibrations of the sea surface height (SSH) and significant wave height (SWH) products of satellite altimeters. This paper investigates the SSH and SWH retrieval methods by GNSS buoys. To improve the SSH accuracy, an innovative adaptive Vondrak filter is designed to reduce the ocean-wave noise, and the singular spectrum analysis technology is adopted to reduce the instrument noise. A method of the altimeter products calibration by GNSS buoys is proposed. An ocean calibration campaign was implemented to measure the SSH and SWH at the HY-2A altimeter nadir. A fifth-order polynomial fitting strategy is applied to exploit the potentials of altimeter SSH measurements. A SSH bias of + 4.9 +/- 5.0 cm and a SWH bias of + 3.8 +/- 4.0 cm using four-parameters maximum-likelihood estimation (MLE4) retracking algorithm were acquired, which were well belowthe specifications of the altimetrymeasurement. Besides, the SSH bias and SWHbias were+ 4.2 +/- 5.2 and+ 22.9 +/- 9.6 cm, respectively, based on the HY-2A operational SWH products (using MLE3 retracker), proving that the four-parameters retracking algorithm outperformed the conventional three-parameters retracking algorithm in accuracy and consistency, at least for SWH retrieving.
收录类别	SCI
语种	英语
内容类型	期刊论文
源URL	[http://ir.nssc.ac.cn/handle/122/5681]
专题	国家空间科学中心_微波遥感部
推荐引用方式 GB/T 7714	Xu, Xi-Yu,Xu, Ke,Shen, Hua,et al. Sea Surface Height and Significant Wave Height Calibration Methodology by a GNSS Buoy Campaign for HY-2A Altimeter[J]. IEEE JOURNAL OF SELECTED TOPICS IN APPLIED EARTH OBSERVATIONS AND REMOTE SENSING,2016,9(11):5252-5261.
APA	Xu, Xi-Yu,Xu, Ke,Shen, Hua,Liu, Ya-Long,&Liu, He-Guang.(2016).Sea Surface Height and Significant Wave Height Calibration Methodology by a GNSS Buoy Campaign for HY-2A Altimeter.IEEE JOURNAL OF SELECTED TOPICS IN APPLIED EARTH OBSERVATIONS AND REMOTE SENSING,9(11),5252-5261.
MLA	Xu, Xi-Yu,et al."Sea Surface Height and Significant Wave Height Calibration Methodology by a GNSS Buoy Campaign for HY-2A Altimeter".IEEE JOURNAL OF SELECTED TOPICS IN APPLIED EARTH OBSERVATIONS AND REMOTE SENSING 9.11(2016):5252-5261.