Level-1 ECHO_PLRM Product: Location Parameters

Level-1 ECHO_PLRM Product: Location parameters
PARAMETER Latitude
Longitude
Altitude
Altitude rate
NETCDF NAME lat_l1b_echo_plrm
lon_l1b_echo_plrm
alt_l1b_echo_plrm
orb_alt_rate_l1b_echo_plrm
DESCRIPTION Latitude position at time tag.
Longitude position at time tag.
Satellite altitude height above the reference ellipsoid at time tag.
Satellite altitude height rate at time tag.
UNITS Latitude: 10-6 degrees. Positive latitude is a northern latitude, negative latitude is a southern latitude.
Longitude: 10-6 degrees. East longitude relative to the Greenwich meridian.
Altitude: 10-4m. An offset of 700,000 m to be added to the value read from the netCDF file.
Altitude rate: 10-2m/s.
PARAMETERS RELATED x_pos_l1b_echo_plrm: X component of the satellite altitude.
y_pos_l1b_echo_plrm: Y component of the satellite altitude.
z_pos_l1b_echo_plrm: Z component of the satellite altitude.

x_vel_l1b_echo_plrm: X component of the satellite velocity.
y_vel_l1b_echo_plrm: Y component of the satellite velocity.
z_vel_l1b_echo_plrm: Z component of the satellite velocity.
ALGORITHMS RELATED Orbit CFI algorithm
PARAMETER DETAILED DESCRIPTION Sentinel-3 Core PDGS Instrument Processing Facility (IPF) Implementation. Product Data Format Specification. SRAL/MWR Level 1 & 2 Instrument Products