Cryosat QA

L2 Mispointing Angle Monitoring

IPF Baseline:
Phase:

Cryosat L2 data from Baseline-B onwards includes a parameter to show the mispointing angle of the antenna.

This is the angle between the antenna pointing (direction of beam) and the nadir direction.

Nominally this should be zero.

This tool provides global and polar plots of the L2 Mispointing Angle parameter for each 30-day data take for data from:

  • ascending passes,
  • descending passes,
  • all passes


Operational Phase (Baseline-D)

Data take Timespan Global Plot North Polar Plot South Polar Plot
13321/8/21 -> 19/9/21ViewViewView
13222/7/21 -> 20/8/21ViewViewView
13122/6/21 -> 21/7/21ViewViewView
13023/5/21 -> 21/6/21ViewViewView
12923/4/21 -> 22/5/21ViewViewView
12824/3/21 -> 22/4/21ViewViewView
12722/2/21 -> 23/3/21ViewViewView
12623/1/21 -> 21/2/21ViewViewView
12524/12/20 -> 22/1/21ViewViewView
12424/11/20 -> 23/12/20ViewViewView
12325/10/20 -> 23/11/20ViewViewView
12225/9/20 -> 24/10/20ViewViewView
12126/8/20 -> 24/9/20ViewViewView
12027/7/20 -> 25/8/20ViewViewView
11927/6/20 -> 26/7/20ViewViewView
11828/5/20 -> 26/6/20ViewViewView
11728/4/20 -> 27/5/20ViewViewView
11629/3/20 -> 27/4/20ViewViewView
11528/2/20 -> 28/3/20ViewViewView
11429/1/20 -> 27/2/20ViewViewView
11330/12/19 -> 28/1/20ViewViewView
11230/11/19 -> 29/12/19ViewViewView
11131/10/19 -> 29/11/19ViewViewView
1101/10/19 -> 30/10/19ViewViewView
1091/9/19 -> 30/9/19ViewViewView
1082/8/19 -> 31/8/19ViewViewView
1073/7/19 -> 1/8/19ViewViewView
1063/6/19 -> 2/7/19ViewViewView
1054/5/19 -> 2/6/19ViewViewView

Note: data takes may be missing if they have not been processed by this IPF Baseline-D