FDR4ALT: awarded contract by ESA/ESRIN in CLS consortium

Fluctus SAS has been awarded a contract by ESA/ESRIN in a consortium lead by CLS.

Following the successful decades of ERS and Envisat Altimetry mission operations and data exploitation, the FDR4ALT project (Fundamental Data Record for Altimetry) shall revisit the long-standing series of Altimetry observations with the objective of improving the performance of the ESA heritage data sets and their continuity with current and future missions for multi-disciplinary applications and broader data use.

In this context, Fluctus SAS and Informus (Ralf Bennartz and Frank Fell) proposes an intercalibration of the different missions and a reprocessing of the wet tropospheric correction based on a 1DVAR retrieval scheme.

FDR4ALT intercalibration and L2 reprocessing is directly inherited from the EMIR project.