TY - JOUR
T1 - Assessment of Cryosat-2 and SARAL/AltiKa altimetry for measuring inland water and coastal sea level variations
T2 - A case study on Tibetan Plateau lake and Taiwan Coast
AU - Kao, Huan Chin
AU - Kuo, Chung Yen
AU - Tseng, Kuo Hsin
AU - Shum, C. K.
AU - Tseng, Tzu Pang
AU - Jia, Yuan Yuan
AU - Yang, Ting Yi
AU - Ali, Tarig A.
AU - Yi, Yuchan
AU - Hussain, Dostdar
N1 - Funding Information:
This research is supported by grants from the Ministry of Science and Technology of Taiwan (MOST 104-2221-E-006-048-MY3 and MOST 107-2221-E-006-124-MY3). We would like to thank the European Space Agency (ESA) for providing the Cryosat-2 data, Archiving, Validation and Interpretation of Satellite Oceanographic data (AVISO) for SARAL/AltiKa data, the Central Weather Bureau of Taiwan for tide gauge data and altimetry Lake level from the Hydroweb. The figures are made by the GMT graphics package (Wessel and Smith 1991).
Funding Information:
This research is supported by grants from the Ministry of Science and Technology of Taiwan (MOST 104-2221-E-006-048-MY3 and MOST 107-2221-E-006-124-MY3).
Funding Information:
aDepartment of Geomatics, National Cheng Kung University, Tainan, Taiwan; bCenter for Space and Remote Sensing Research, National Central University, Taoyuan, Taiwan; cDivision of Geodetic Science, School of Earth Sciences, Ohio State University, Columbus, Ohio, USA; dInstitute of Geodesy and Geophysics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Wuhan, China; eGeoscience Australia, Symonston, ACT, Australia; fDepartment of Civil Engineering, American University of Sharjah, Sharjah, United Arab Emirates
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PY - 2019/7/4
Y1 - 2019/7/4
N2 - Satellite altimetry has been proven as an effective technology to accurately measure water level, ice elevation, and flat land surface changes since the 1990s. To overcome limitations of pulse-limited altimetry, new altimetric missions such as Cryosat-2 and Satellite with ARgos and AltiKa (SARAL/AltiKa), have been designed to have higher along-track spatial resolution to measure more accurately inland water levels for small water bodies, and coastal sea level changes. In this study, we evaluate the performance of Cryosat-2 low-resolution (LRM) and SARin modes and SARAL/AltiKa Ka-band data on two connected lakes in central Tibetan Plateau, and in the coastal region of Taiwan. Results are compared with in situ tide gauge data in Taiwan and altimetric lake level time series from the CNES Hydroweb database. Our results show that water level change trends observed by Cryosat-2 20-Hz retracked observations, the SARAL/AltiKa 40-Hz Ice-1 retracked data, and the Hydroweb measurements are consistent with the estimated water level trend of ∼0.30 m/y, during 2011–2017, and 2013–2015, for the Tibetan Migriggyangzham Co and Dorsoidong Co, respectively. For the coastal region, the performance of SARAL/AltiKa is better than that of Cryosat-2 LRM data in Taiwan. This finding demonstrates the superiority of the Ka-band over Ku-band radar altimetry.
AB - Satellite altimetry has been proven as an effective technology to accurately measure water level, ice elevation, and flat land surface changes since the 1990s. To overcome limitations of pulse-limited altimetry, new altimetric missions such as Cryosat-2 and Satellite with ARgos and AltiKa (SARAL/AltiKa), have been designed to have higher along-track spatial resolution to measure more accurately inland water levels for small water bodies, and coastal sea level changes. In this study, we evaluate the performance of Cryosat-2 low-resolution (LRM) and SARin modes and SARAL/AltiKa Ka-band data on two connected lakes in central Tibetan Plateau, and in the coastal region of Taiwan. Results are compared with in situ tide gauge data in Taiwan and altimetric lake level time series from the CNES Hydroweb database. Our results show that water level change trends observed by Cryosat-2 20-Hz retracked observations, the SARAL/AltiKa 40-Hz Ice-1 retracked data, and the Hydroweb measurements are consistent with the estimated water level trend of ∼0.30 m/y, during 2011–2017, and 2013–2015, for the Tibetan Migriggyangzham Co and Dorsoidong Co, respectively. For the coastal region, the performance of SARAL/AltiKa is better than that of Cryosat-2 LRM data in Taiwan. This finding demonstrates the superiority of the Ka-band over Ku-band radar altimetry.
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U2 - 10.1080/01490419.2019.1623352
DO - 10.1080/01490419.2019.1623352
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:85067012248
SN - 0149-0419
VL - 42
SP - 327
EP - 343
JO - Marine Geodesy
JF - Marine Geodesy
IS - 4
ER -