Open AccessCoastal Altimetry Progresses Toward Applications: Third Coastal Altimetry Workshop, European Space Agency; Frascati, Italy, 17–18 September 2009
Author(s) -
Vignudelli Stefano,
Benveniste Jérôme
Publication year - 2010
Publication title -
eos, transactions american geophysical union
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.316
H-Index - 86
eISSN - 2324-9250
pISSN - 0096-3941
DOI - 10.1029/2010eo050006
Subject(s) - altimeter , satellite altimetry , geography , agency (philosophy) , satellite , remote sensing , oceanography , geology , engineering , philosophy , epistemology , aerospace engineering
Recognizing that coastal ocean observing systems would benefit from enhanced satellite altimetry, a first coastal altimetry workshop, held in Silver Spring, Md., in February 2008, charted the course to promote its use in the coastal zone (see W. H. Smith et al., Eos, 89 (40), 380, 2008). A second workshop, hosted in Pisa, Italy, in November 2008, confirmed the rapid progress made in the field (see J. Benveniste and S. Vignudelli, Eos, 90 (26), 225, 2009), especially by projects such as COASTALT (Development of Radar Altimetry Data Processing in the Coastal Zone), funded by the European Space Agency (ESA), and PISTACH (Prototype Innovant de Système de Traitement Pour les Applications Côtières et l'Hydrologie), funded by Centre National d'Études Spatiales (CNES), France.