1. CP4O Mid-term Review NOC 25-26 June 2013 WP4000 Product Development & Validation Overview Christine Gommenginger cg1@noc.ac.uk

2. CP4O Mid-term Review NOC 25-26 June 2013 Start: 1 Dec 2012 – 30 Sept 2013 (10 months) 5 sub-tasks WP4000 Coordination (NOC) WP4100 Experimental validation exercise WP4200 Error analysis and Product Validation Report WP4300 Final algorithm selection and Algorithm Theoretical Basis Document(s) WP4400 Production and Documentation of Cryosat-2 Validation Dataset WP4000 Content 2

3. CP4O Mid-term Review NOC 25-26 June 2013 11 Sub-themes 1. LRM for Open Ocean (TUDelft) 2. SAR for Open Ocean (Starlab, CLS, NOC, SATOC) 3. SAR for Sea Floor Mapping (DTU Space) 4. SAR for Coastal Ocean (NOC) 5. SAR for Polar Ocean (DTU Space) 6. RDSAR for Open Ocean (Starlab, CLS, SATOC) 7. SARIn for Coastal Ocean (isardSAT) 8. Improved Geophysical Corrections: wet trop correction (U Porto) 9. Improved Geophysical Corrections: ionospheric correction (Noveltis) 10. Improved Geophysical Corrections: regional tidal correction (Noveltis) 11. Improved Geophysical Corrections: other (TUDelft) WP4000 sub-themes

4. CP4O Mid-term Review NOC 25-26 June 2013 For each sub-theme: WP4100 Perform a detailed experimental validation exercise to develop and validate methods and algorithms WP4200 Validate methods & algorithms and report error analysis and cross- comparisons in the Product Validation Report (PVR) WP4300 Create detailed description of the final methods and algorithms into Algorithm Theoretical Basis Documents (ATBD) WP4400 Produce Cryosat-2 products for the Validation Data Set needed in WP5000 for the public round-robin exercise for each of the following: LRM for Open Ocean (TUDelft) SAR for Open Ocean (Starlab, CLS) SAR for Sea Floor Mapping (DTU Space) SAR for Coastal Ocean (NOC, U. Porto, Noveltis) SAR for Polar Ocean (DTU Space) RDSAR for Open Ocean (CLS, TUDelft) Produce Validation Data Set User Manual (isardSAT, SATOC) WP4000 approach

5. CP4O Mid-term Review NOC 25-26 June 2013 WP4000 deliverables & status Sub - theme D4.1 draft ATBDD4.2 draft PVR LRM for Open Ocean (RADS)TU Delftpending LRM for Open Ocean (CPP)CLSdeliveredpending RDSAR for Open Ocean /SAMOSA RDSARStarlab /TU Delft pending RDSAR for Open Ocean CNES/CLS SAR reduction algorithmCLSdelivered SAR for Open Ocean / SAMOSA retrackerStarlab/NOCpending SAR for Open Ocean / CLS, CNES re-trackerCLSdeliveredpending SAR for Coastal OceanNOCpending SAR for Sea Floor MappingDTU Space N/A SAR for Polar OceanDTU Spacepending SARIN for Coastal OceanisardSAT Report (due T0+10) Wet tropo CorrectionsU PortoReport (draft delivered) Ionospheric CorrectionsNoveltisdelivered Regional TidesNoveltisdelivered Other Geophys correctionsTU Delft pending

6. CP4O Mid-term Review NOC 25-26 June 2013 D4.3 Validation Data Set due Nov 2013 for each of the following: LRM for Open Ocean (TUDelft) SAR for Open Ocean (Starlab, CLS) SAR for Sea Floor Mapping (DTU Space) SAR for Coastal Ocean (NOC, U. Porto, Noveltis) SAR for Polar Ocean (DTU Space) RDSAR for Open Ocean (CLS, TUDelft) D4.4 Validation Data Set User Manual due Nov 2013 (isardSAT, SATOC) WP4000 deliverables & status