CATDS Expertise Center - Ocean Salinity (CEC-OS)
Ifremer/cersat host the Centre Aval de Traitement des Données SMOS (CATDS), which is the french ground segment for the SMOS Level 3 and 4 data, developped in collaboration with CNES and the CESBIO laboratory. It is in charge of:
CATDS processes simultaneously Sea Surface Salinity and Soil Moisture products in order to better process data in the coastal zones and evolving sea/ice area.In order to meet these goals, CATDS is split into two main types of components:
In this context, our team is in charge of the CATDS Salinity Expertise center (C-ECOS). This center is piloted and developed in collaboration with several national partners, in particular with our collegues from LOCEAN and LEGOS laboratories. The prototype Level 3 and 4 algorithms that are tested in the C-ECOS and which will be selected by the CATDS scientific pilot commitee as the one producing the best quality for SSS products will then be turned into operational processing chains by the french companies CAP-GEMINI and ACRI-ST.
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