1. Singular Value Decomposition applied on altimeter waveforms Page P. Thibaut, J.C.Poisson, A.Ollivier : CLS – Toulouse - France F.Boy, N.Picot : CNES – Toulouse - France
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12. J1 Ku band raw waveforms J1 Ku band filtered waveforms gate index gate index Waveform index Waveform index Truncated Singular Value Decomposition Noise Reduction
13. Truncated Singular Value Decomposition for Noise Reduction Raw waveforms Filtered waveforms Igarss 2011 – Vancouver – Pierre THIBAUT
14. Impact on range (threshold of 84 %) SLA variation latitude MLE4 SVD+MLE4 SLA spectrum – Ku band 8 cm at 20 Hz 5 cm at 20 Hz MLE4 SVD+MLE4 Igarss 2011 – Vancouver – Pierre THIBAUT 700m 10km
15. Impact on range (threshold of 90 %) Page - SLA Prod - SLA SVD SLA variation SLA spectrum – Ku band 8 cm at 20 Hz 7 cm at 20 Hz Igarss 2011 – Vancouver – Pierre THIBAUT 700m 10km
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17. Impact on SWH (threshold of 84%) SWH variation latitude SWH spectrum – Ku band MLE4 SVD+MLE4 MLE4 SVD+MLE4 54 cm at 20 Hz 12 cm at 20 Hz Igarss 2011 – Vancouver – Pierre THIBAUT 700m 10km
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19. Page Small impact on residuals (smaller on the leading adge; higher on the trailing edge) SVD Impact on residuals (threshold of 90 %) Igarss 2011 – Vancouver – Pierre THIBAUT