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ERS-1 is going to provide a long term altimetric monitoring of the sea surface supported by high precision orbit determination. The German Processing and Archiving Facility (D-PAF) is one element of the ERS-1 ground segment. Among other tasks, described by Gredel et al. (1991), D-PAF has been nominated by ESA for the precision off-line processing of the geophysically corrected ERS-1 altimeter data. The main objective is a systematic and regular monitoring of the sea surface aiming in high resolving digital height models on a global scale. ERS-1 altimeter data will be used to generate short period solutions covering periods of one month (or a 35 day repeat cycle). In addition, long period solutions are going to be computed to derive a most precise estimate of a quasi-stationary sea surface by assimilating as much data as available.
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Bosch, W., Anzenhofer, M., Spöcker, N. (1992). Sea Surface Height Modeling, Generation and Validation of Sample Products. In: Colombo, O.L. (eds) From Mars to Greenland: Charting Gravity With Space and Airborne Instruments. International Association of Geodesy Symposia, vol 110. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4613-9255-2_11
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