Copernicus Sentinel-3 Land Altimetry Thematic Products (Baseline Collection 005) released operationally

We are pleased to announce the deployment on 20th September 2023 of new Land Altimetry processing baseline 03.22 implementing the transition from present operational Land products to the new Altimetry Thematic Products over Inland Waters, Sea-Ice and Land Ice surfaces as described in:

https://sentinels.copernicus.eu/web/sentinel/-/sentinel-3-land-altimetry-land-thematic-products-with-baseline-collection-005-availability-notice-update-on-28-march-2023

Product filenames follow the following convention:

Baseline Collection Number:

004: Old processing baseline

005: New processing baseline, i.e. Thematic processing.

Production Centre:

LN2: For the NTC pilot production started with data from June 2022 and until the operational deployment, and also for the historical re-processed datasets.

PS1 and PS2: For the two operational Processing Service

e.g.

S3A_SR_2_LAN_HY_20230921T121518_20230921T122118_20230921T133634_0360_103_309_____PS1_O_NR005.SEN3

NRT Hydrology product by the operational Processing Service #1 (S3A)

S3B_SR_2_LAN_HY_20230828T090839_20230828T093341_20230921T123345_1501_083_207_____PS2_O_NT005.SEN3

NTC Hydrology product by operational Processing Service #2 (S3B)

S3A_SR_2_LAN_HY_20230823T051701_20230823T053334_20230920T235707_0993_102_276_____LN3_O_NT005.SEN3

NTC Hydrology product by pilot processing centre LN3