Sentinel-3 SAR Altimetry over Coastal and Open Ocean: performance assessment and improved retrieval methods in the ESA SCOOP Project.

David Cotton1, Thomas Moreau2, Matthias Raynal3, Eduard Varona4, Paolo Cipollini5, Mathilde Cancet6, Francisco Martin7, Luciana Fenoglio-Marc8, Marc Naeije9, Joana Fernandes10, Clara Lazaro10, Marco Restano11, Américo Ambrózio12 and Jérôme Benveniste13, (1)SatOC Satellite Oceanographic Consultants Limited, Bramhall, United Kingdom, (2)CLS, Toulouse, France, (3)CNES French National Center for Space Studies, Toulouse Cedex 09, France, (4)isardSAT, Guildford, United Kingdom, (5)National Oceanography Centre, Southampton, United Kingdom, (6)Noveltis, Labège, France, (7)Starlab Barcelona S.L., Harwell, United Kingdom, (8)University of Bonn, Institute of Geodesy and Geoinformation, Bonn, Germany, (9)Delft University of Technology, Space Engineering, Delft, Netherlands, (10)Fac. Ciencias Univ. Porto, Porto, Portugal, (11)SERCO/ESA-ESRIN, Frascati, Italy, (12)DEIMOS/ESRIN, Frascati, Italy, (13)COSPAR, Scientific Commission A, Paris, France