Improving SAR Altimeter processing over Inland Water - the ESA HYDROCOASTAL project

David Cotton1, Ole Baltazar Andersen2, Peter Bauer-Gottwein3, Nicolas Bercher4, Mathilde Cancet5, Francesco De Biasio6, Denise Dettmering7, Pierre Laurent Fabry8, Luciana Fenoglio-Marc9, Joana Fernandes10, Albert Garcia-Mondéjar11, Jesus Gomez-Enri12, Clara Lazaro13, Karina Nielsen14, Marcello Passaro7, Marl Pattle15, Heidi Ranndal16, Lisa Recchia17, Cornelis Slobbe18, Angelica Tarpanelli19, Bernd Uebbing9, Telmo Vieira10, Stefano Vignudelli20,21, Elena Anatolievna Zakharova22, Marco Restano23 and Jérôme Benveniste24, (1)SatOC Satellite Oceanographic Consultants Limited, Bramhall, United Kingdom, (2)DTU Space, Lyngby, Denmark, (3)Technical University of Denmark, Department of Environmental Engineering, 2800 Kgs. Lyngby, Denmark, (4)AltiHydroLab.fr, Sainte-Foy-lès-Lyon, France, (5)Noveltis, Labège, France, (6)CNR-ISP, Venezia, Italy, (7)Technical University of Munich, Munich, Germany, (8)Along-Track S.A.S., Plougonvelin, France, (9)University of Bonn, Institute of Geodesy and Geoinformation, Bonn, Germany, (10)Fac. Ciencias Univ. Porto, Porto, Portugal, (11)isardSAT, Surrey, United Kingdom, (12)University of Cadiz, Cadiz, Spain, (13)Fac. de Ciencias Univ. Porto, Porto, Portugal, (14)DTU-SPACE, Kgs. Lyngby, Denmark, (15)isardSAT, Guildford, United Kingdom, (16)DTU Space, National Space Institute, Technical University of Denmark, Lyngby, Denmark, (17)Aresys, Milano, Italy, (18)Delft University of Technology, Delft, Netherlands, (19)Research Institute for Geo-Hydrological Protection National Research Council CNR, Perugia, Italy, (20)National Oceanography Centre, Southampton, United Kingdom, (21)Consiglio Nazionale Delle Ricerche (CNR), Pisa, Italy, (22)Maynooth University, Maynooth, Ireland, (23)SERCO for European Space Agency, Frascati, Italy, (24)European Space Agency (ESA-ESRIN), Earth Observation Programmes, Frascati, Italy