Sunday, 22 April 2018: 19:00–21:00:

19:00-21:00

Welcome Reception:

The Symposium Venue, Center of Mediterranean Architecture

Participants will have a chance to meet each other. Drinks will be offered.

Monday, 23 April, 2018: 8:00-9:00

8:00-

Registration

9:00

Monday, 23 April, 2018

09:00

 Opening Session

Stelios P. Mertikas –International Cal/Val Review Workshop Convener

Evan Diamantopoulos, Rector of the Technical University of Crete

Delegation from Local Authorities and City of Chania

09:25

S1-63

Satellite Earth Observation and Geosciences-The IUGG Perspective

Michael Sideris, IUGG President,

Session 1: Fiducial Reference Measurements for Altimetry and Metrology.

Chairs: Craig Donlon, Stelios Mertikas

09:40

S1-01

Fiducial Reference Measurements for Altimetry

Craig Donlon

10:00

S1-68

Fundamental Time Systems for Altimetry Standardization

Demetrios Matsakis

Coffee Break 10:20-10:40

10:40

S1-69

Calibration techniques for accurate time transfer

Elizabeth Laier English

11:00

S1-67

ESA Altimetry Campaigns in Support of ESA’s Earth Explorers and Sentinel Missions

Tânia Casal, Malcolm Davidson, Tommaso Parrinello

11:20

S1-30

Sentinel-3A STM Mission Performance Centre: a Successful Example of a Global Cal/Val Approach

Sylvie Labroue, Matthias Raynal, Pierre Féménias, Remko Scharroo, Saleh Abdalla, Pablo Nilo, Marie Laure Frery, Mathilde Cancet and Graham Quartly

11:40

S1-23

Estimation of any Altimeter Mean Seal Level Drifts between 1993 and 2017 by Comparison with Tide-gauges Measurements

Michaël Ablain, Rémy Jugier and Nicolas Picot

12:00

Panel Discussion: What, Why and How FRM for Altimetry? How metrology and fundamental standards are to help establish guidelines for Cal/Val uncertainty? How to monitor Oceans, Inland Waters, and Polar Regions in an Objective, Homogeneous and Continuous manner?

Lunch Break 12:30-14:00

Session 2: Past & Current International Cal/Val Activities.

Chairs: Bruce Haines, Pascal Bonnefond

14:00

S2-04

Geodetic Reliability of the Corsica Sites Through Sentinel-3A and CryoSat-2 Calibration

Pascal Bonnefond, Olivier Laurain, Pierre Exertier, François Boy, Thierry Guinle, Nicolas Picot, Craig Donlon, Pierre Féménias, Tommaso Parrinello and Salvatore Dinardo

14:20

S2-38

California's Offshore Harvest Platform: Twenty Five Years of Monitoring the Altimetric Record

Bruce Haines and Shailen Desai

14:40

S2-02

Calibration of Satellite Altimetry at the Permanent Facilities in Gavdos and Crete, Greece

Stelios Mertikas, Craig Donlon, Constantin Mavrocordatos, Pierre Féménias, Demitris Galanakis, Ole B. Andersen, Achilles Tripolitsiotis, Xenophon Frantzis, Ilias N. Tziavos, Francois Boy, Thierry Guinle

15:00

S2-45

A Review of the Altimeter Validation Facility in Bass Strait, Australia

Christopher Watson, Benoit Legresy, Matt King, Jack Beardsley and Alistai Deane

15:20

S2-28

Regional in Situ Cal/Val of Satellite Altimeter Range at Non-dedicated Sites

Mathilde Cancet, Pascal Bonnefond, Bruce Haines, Christopher Watson, Florent Lyard and Olivier Laurain

Coffee Break 15:40-16:10

Session 2: Past & Current International Cal/Val Activities

Chairs: Mingsen Lin, Christopher Watson

16:10

S2-19

Copernicus POD Service - Orbit Validation of Sentinel-3 Mission

Jaime Fernández, Heike Peter and Pierre Féménias

16:40

S2-26

Systematic Validation of Altimetry Water Surface Height Measurements over Rivers and Lakes

Nicolas Taburet, Lionel Zawadzki, Sylvie Labroue, Michael Ablain, Remi Jugier, Maxime Vayre, Matthias Raynal, Pierre Féménias, Jean-François Cretaux and Stephane Calmant

17:00

S2-36

Calibration and Validation Activities of ISRO's Earth Observation Satellites (Especially SARAL/AltiKa)

Aloke Mathur and Babu Narasimhan

17:15

Panel Discussion: Various constituents contributing to Val/Val uncertainties? How each individual Cal/Val team addresses them? How to set the foundations for International Cal/Val Altimetry standardization?

Tuesday, 24 April, 2018

Session 2: Past & Current International Cal/Val Activities.

Chairs: Christopher Watson, Denise Dettmering

09:00

S2-27

Fully-Focused SAR Altimetry of the Crete Transponder Using Sentinel-3A Level1A Data

Walter Smith

09:20

S2-20

CryoSat-2 Range, Datation and Interferometer Calibration with Svalbard Transponder

Albert Garcia-Mondéjar, Marco Fornari, Jerome Bouffard, Joe Wood, Pierre Féménias and Mònica Roca

09:40

S2-09

Multi-Mission Cross-Calibration of Satellite Altimeters: Constructing a Long-Term Data Record for Sea Level Change Studies

Denise Dettmering and Christian Schwatke

10:00

S2-07

Validation of Improved Significant Wave Heights from Brown-peaky Retracker Around East Coast of Australia

Fukai Peng and Xiaoli Deng

10:20

S2-55

Calibration and Validation of Satellite Altimetric Missions on the German Bight and Baltic Sea Coast

Luciana Fenoglio-Marc, Salvatore Dinardo and Matthias Becker

Coffee Break 10:40-11:10

Session 3: Evaluating Uncertainties with Metrology Standards

Chairs: Aloke K. Mathur, Ambrus Kenyeres

11:10

S3-21

Trend Uncertainties of Global Mean Sea Level Evolution Over the 25-year Altimetry Era

Michaël Ablain, Lionel Zawadzki, Benoit Meyssygnac and Anny Cazenave

11:30

S3-24

Sentinel-3A Surface Topography Mission Microwave Radiometer: Wet Tropospheric Correction Uncertainties

Marie-Laure Frery, Bruno Picard, Mathilde Siméon, Pierre Féménias and Remko Scharroo

11:50

S3-61

Fiducial Reference Measurements for Satellite Ocean Colour (FRM4SOC)

Riho Vendt, Andrew Banks, Tânia Casal, Craig Donlon, Christophe Lerebourg, KevinRuddick and Gavin Tilstone

12:10

Panel Discussion: Variations between transponder, sea-surface, absolute, relative, inland waters and polar calibrations. Guidelines for expressing uncertainty in Cal/Val. Best practices and transparent protocols.

Lunch Break 12:30-14:00

Session 4: Calibration of Future Satellite Altimetry.

Chairs: Lee Lueng Fu, Pierre Femenias

14:00

S4-10

Calibration and Validation of the Sea Surface Height from the Anticipated SWOT Mission

Lee-Lueng Fu and Jinbo Wang

14:20

S4-37

A New Era of Climate Quality Calibration for Altimeter Radiometers

Shannon Brown and Tanvir Islam

14:40

S4-51

Cal/Val Activities of Satellite Altimetry for Hydrology in Brazil

Daniel Moreira, Stéphane Calmant, Félix Perosanz, Jean-François Cretaux, Adrien Paris, Joecila Santos Da Silva and Otto Rotunno Filho

15:00

S4-33

Contribution of Conventional Altimetry for Inland Waters Observation: Results from Jason-3 and Sentinel-3 and Perspectives for SWOT Validation

Sophie Le Gac, Denis Blumstein, Sylvain Biancamaria, Jean-François Cretaux, Stéphane Calmant, François Boy and Nicolas Picot

15:20

S4-06

The Calibration of CryoSat Interferometer: Current Approach and New Perspectives

Michele Scagliola, Marco Fornari, Jerome Bouffard and Tommaso Parrinello

Session 5: Maintaining the EO Climate Record From Altimetry & ESA Climate Change Initiative

Chairs: Robert Cullen, Lee-Lueng Fu

16:10

S5-11

CryoSat: ESA’S Ice Explorer Mission, Eight Years in Operations: Status and Future Outlook Tommaso Parrinello, Jerome Bouffard, Marco Fornari and Michele Scagliola

16:40

S5-52

On the Sentinel-3A Radiometer-base Wet Path Delay – a Contribution to the Long-term Sea Level Record

M. Joana Fernandes, Clara Lázaro and Telmo Vieira

17:00

S5-47

Assessing the Stability of the Satellite Derived GMSL Record Using Tide Gauges

Christopher Watson, Benoit Legresy and Matt King

17:20

S5-12

The Importance of Metadata and Standards for Climate Data and Long Term Archives

Jessica Hausman

Panel Discussion: Framework for future altimetry missions in terms of their calibration (Ku-band, Ka-band, X-band, wide swath, SAR, LRM, radiometer, etc.). Needs for new measurements and instrumentation. Synergy with other non-altimetry missions. Practical guidelines for future Cal/Val sites.

Wednesday, 25 April, 2018

Session 6: The Changing Environment

Chairs: Roland Pail, Xiaoli Deng, Michael Sideris

09:00

S6-48

Sea Level Trends and Variability in the Adriatic Sea and Around Venice

Stefano Vignudelli, Francesco De Biasio, Andrea Scozzari and Stefano Zecchetto

09:20

S6-56

Altimeter Detections of Changes in Mountain Glaciers, Tibetan Lake Levels and Elevations over Groundwater-Depleted Croplands

Cheinway Hwang

09:40

S6-17

Observing Extreme Water Levels in the Mekong Basin with Multi-mission Altimetry

Eva Boergens, Denise Dettmering and Florian Seitz

10:00

S6-70

Assessment of NRT Wind and Wave Data from Sentinel-3 Mission

Saleh Abdalla

Thursday, 26 April, 2018

Sessions 8 & 9: IAG Modelling with Altimetry: Bathymetry, Geoid, Sea Level, Gravity, Heights & GGOS

Chairs: Ole Andersen, Denise Dettmering

9:00

S8-29

High Resolution Tidal Modelling at Regional Scales

Mathilde Cancet, Florent Lyard and Florence Toublanc

9:15

S8-53

Towards a Methodology for Estimating Extreme Return Levels and its Climate Variability of Coastal Sea Level From Satellite Altimetry

Hector Lobeto and Melisa Menendez

9:30

S8-57

Mean Dynamic Topography in the Mediterranean Sea From Altimetry, Gravity and In-situ Data

Marie Helene Rio, Sean Bruinsma and Milena Menna

9:45

S8-58

Sea Level Variability in the Strait of Gibraltar From Along-track High Spatial Resolution Altimeter Products

Jesus Gomez-Enri, Stefano Vignudelli, Alfredo Izquierdo, Marcello Passaro, Carlos Jose Gonzalez, Paolo Cipollini, Miguel Bruno, Oscar Alvarez and Rafael Mañanes

Coffee Break 10:00-10:30

10:30

S9-34

High-Rate GPS Clock Corrections for Supporting the PPP-RTK in Ocean Waveform Retrieving

Xiufeng He, Xu Tang and Hongkai Shi

10:45

S9-35

Comparison of Jason-2 Coastal Product With Tide Gauge and HF Radar Data

Osamu Isoguchi and Naoto Ebuchi

11:00

S9-64

Range Calibration of ESA's Pulse-Width Limited Altimeters from ERS-1 to EnviSat

Richard Francis

International Cal/Val Review Summary and Conclusions

Chairs: Rob Cullen, Stelios Mertikas

11:20

Round Table: Scientific and Operational Roadmap for Satellite Altimetry Cal/Val

• Critically review the current methodology applied at the Permanent Facilities for satellite altimetry calibration and validation using ground-based measurements;
• Define requirements, establish standards and provide recommendations and best practices for altimerty calibration such that all measurements and results made for monitoring the Earth, the environment, the sea level, etc., are well-characterized and linked to other areas of science and technology through a world’s measurement system established and maintained under the International System of Units and Metrology Standards;
• Document procedures for Fiducial Reference Measurements in satellite altimetry so that results are traceable to SI-units, reliable in the long term, comparable worldwide, to support an objective and unquestionable monitoring of the Sea Level and Climate Change;
• Establish procedures and protocols for characterizing the uncertainty budget of all FRM instruments and derived results over the entire end-to-end duration of a satellite mission;
• Define and document procedures, protocols and best practices to evaluate differences in instrument performances under a range of conditions to maintain satellite altimetry observations, to support the Earth Observation for the future;
• Summarize all scientific achievements for satellite altimetry Cal/Val and its applications in the context of Fiducial Reference Measurements.

Closing Excursion: Visit Monumental Olive Tree & “ANOSKELI” Winery & Olive Mill

Visit one of the oldest trees in the world, the “VOUVES” Olive Tree Museum, and the “ANOSKELI” Winery followed by a first-hand experience of olive oil production and winemaking and tasting.