Cyclic Cal/Val
Validation report
Cycle date
Jan. 25, 2025 - March 2, 2025
Parameter:
Sentinel-3A
Sentinel-3B
Orbit
Nominal
Six passes are missing, and three passes are duplicated or split. See Section 3.1.1
Availability of geophysical
corrections
Ocean tide measurements are missing over the Greenland and Antarctic Ice Shelves. See Table 3.5 and Table 3.6.
Ocean tide measurements are missing over the Greenland and Antarctic Ice Shelves. See Table 3.5and Table 3.6.
Availability of auxiliary data
Nominal
Nominal
Geophysical parameters
Nominal
Nominal
Specific investigations
N/A
N/A
Orbit cross-over statistics
For cross-overs less than 1 meter shows a mean bias less than 2.2 cm and a
standard deviation less than 35.9 cm.
This is nominal
For cross-overs less than 1 meter shows a mean bias less than -1.4 cm and a
standard deviation less than 35.9 cm.
This is nominal
Status
Nominal
Nominal
20 Hz Ku Band OCOG (Ice-1) Elevation (elevation_ocog_20_ku)
S3A
S3B
SAR mode elevation over the Greenland ice sheet from the elevation_ocog_20_ku parameter
S3A
S3B
SAR mode elevation over the Antarctica ice sheet from the elevation_ocog_20_ku parameter
20 Hz Ku Band OCOG (Ice-1) Sigma0 (sig0_ocog_20_ku)
S3A
S3B
SAR mode backscatter coefficient over the Greenland ice sheet from the sig0_ocog_20_ku parameter
S3A
S3B
SAR mode backscatter coefficient over the Antarctica ice sheet from the sig0_ocog_20_ku parameter
Waveform Quality Flag (waveform_qual_ice_20_ku)
S3A
S3B
Waveform Quality Flag for the Greenland ice sheet
S3A
S3B
Waveform Quality Flag for Antarctica
Crossover Analysis
S3A
S3B
Histograms of crossover elevation differences for Greenland
S3A
S3B
Histograms of crossover elevation differences for Antarctica
See data product quality reports for more details