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Ponce de León, S., Orru, C., Iesué, M., Orlandi, M., Rivolta, G., Restano, M. and Benveniste, J. (2024), The HORIZON2020 open cloud for research environment project's high-resolution altimetry data for coastal analysis, 30 Years of Progress in Radar Altimetry Symposium (30YPRA), 2-7 September, Montpellier, France
The Unfocused SAR high-resolution processing (Raney 1998) provides data at a posting rate of 20 Hz (i.e., a spatial separation of 300 m between two estimates in the along-track direction) and a resolution of ~320 m in the alongtrack.
Estimating the wave power density every 300 m has many advantages considering that wave energy conversion machines operate and will be installed in the coastal zone.
This represents a significant improvement in comparison to low-resolution mode altimetry missions (~2-17 km resolution, dependent on sea state) adopted in the ESA Sea State CCI (https://climate.esa.int/en/projects/seastate/).
The validity of satellite altimetry-based assessments of wave energy potential in coastal zones and on estimating the wave power density along the coast is a new powerful tool to be developed.
It takes advantage of high-resolution satellite altimetry SAR data products from the ESA CryoSat-2 and Sentinel-3 AB missions obtained by adopting the SAMOSA+ coastal zone-optimized retracker.
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