Development and application of validated geophysical ocean wave products from envisat asar and ra-2 instruments

Project Information

ENVIWAVE

Grant agreement ID: EVG1-CT-2001-00051

Project closed

Start date 1 February 2002

End date 30 April 2005

Funded under

• Programme for research, technological development and demonstration on "Energy, environment and sustainable development, 1998-2002"

Total cost € 3 833 593,00

EU contribution € 2 270 428,00

Coordinated by

NORUT INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY LTD.
Norway

Objective

With the launch of the ENVISAT satellite, significant improvements in measuring global ocean wave and wind climate are expected. Major improvements regarding instruments, processing, and products are achieved for both the Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR) and the Radar Altimeter (RA) instruments compared to the previous ERS missions. The Envisage project will contribute to this by means of; performing new developments in terms of calibrated and validated geophysical products from the SAR and the RA instruments; develop the use of these products in numerical wave and weather forecasting and now casting systems; develop the use of these products in high-level ocean wave climate products. Major deliverables to the user community are dissemination of routinely updated calibration and validation data sets (range of validity, bias, RMS errors) by means of a web service.

Fields of science

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• engineering and technology › mechanical engineering › vehicle engineering › aerospace engineering › satellite technology
• engineering and technology › electrical engineering, electronic engineering, information engineering › information engineering › telecommunications › radio technology › radar

Programme(s)

• FP5-EESD - Programme for research, technological development and demonstration on "Energy, environment and sustainable development, 1998-2002"

Topic(s)

• 1.1.4.-7. - RTD activities of a generic nature

Call for proposal

Data not available

Funding Scheme

CSC - Cost-sharing contracts

Coordinator

NORUT INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY LTD.

• EU contribution: No data
• Address: Forskningsparken Brelvik ; 9291 TROMSOE ; Norway
• Total cost: No data

Participants (7)

ENTE PUBLICO PUERTOS DEL ESTADO

Spain

• EU contribution: No data
• Address: Campo de las Naciones Avda. Partenon 10 ; 28042 MADRID
• Total cost: No data

FOUNDATION FOR TECHNICAL AND INDUSTRIAL RESEARCH AT THE NORWEGIAN INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY

Norway

• EU contribution: No data
• Address: Forskningsveien 1 ; 0314 OSLO
• Total cost: No data

INSTITUTE OF ACCELERATING SYSTEMS AND APPLICATIONS

Greece

• EU contribution: No data
• Address: University Campus, Building 9 ; 10024 ATHENS
• Total cost: No data

Institut Français de Recherche pour l'Exploitation de la Mer (IFREMER)

France

• EU contribution: No data
• Address: Centre de Brest ; 29290 Plouzane
• Total cost: No data

NATIONAL TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF ATHENS

Greece

• EU contribution: No data
• Address: Heroon Polytechniou Avenue 9 ; 15780 ATHENS
• Total cost: No data

NORWEGIAN METEOROLOGICAL INSTITUTE

Norway

• EU contribution: No data
• Address: 40,Gaustadalleen 30D ; 0313 OSLO
• Total cost: No data

OCEANOGRAPHIC COMPANY OF NORWAY A/S

Norway

• EU contribution: No data
• Address: Pir-Senteret ; 7005 TRONDHEIM
• Total cost: No data