| Date: | 2008-07-15 17:38:00 | |
| Sender: | Francis Pierron <Francis Pierron <Francis.pierron@obs-azur.fr>> | |
| Subject: | [SLR-Mail] No. 1699: New Ftlrs occupation in Ajaccio (7848 AJAF) in support of Jason2 | |
| Author: | Francis Pierron | |
| Content: | ******************************************************************************** SLR Electronic Mail 2008-07-15 17:38:00 UTC Message No. 1699 ******************************************************************************** Author: Francis Pierron Subject: New Ftlrs occupation in Ajaccio (7848 AJAF) in support of Jason2 Dear colleagues, After a wonderful 5 months Ftlrs campaign in Burnie (Tasmania) and both great welcome and fruitful collaboration with Australian colleagues (R.Coleman, C.Watson, P. Tregonning), the system came back to Grasse laboratory on may 2008. In last May/June period we implemented a major upgrade on Ftlrs system with installation of new event timers (Dassaut) to be able to track Jason2 in T2L2 mode now and in the future. We did our first pass from Grasse Observatory on Jason2 on June 23 and some passes in T2L2 mode the first days of July. The data are being processed by scientific group in Grasse (P.Exertier, E. Samain and CNES). Then we transported last week Ftlrs system to Ajaccio/Corsica in order to begin a new campaign with Jason2/Jason1 calibration funded by CNES. This occupation in Corsica is the fourth on the same Pad, with three previous campaign of six months in 96/97, 2002 and 2005. The first calibration Jason2/1 pass has been tracked this morning (July 15th, 8h40) with a very nice weather and the data are now distributed in real time in the normal flow to Ilrs. We plan to observe about six months for this occupation, with high priority on Jason1/Jason2, Topex, Lageos 1/2, Stella, Starlette, Ers2 and envisat.. In July and August, we intend to track only near (one day) Jason calibration passes (July 15,25 and August 4,14,24) . From September, we´ll track intensively in continuous mode to December 2008. Don´t hesitate to contact us for any questions, comments and scientific projects and application of interest for the future with this system... Thanks for your cooperation and best regards Francis Pierron The link for the site information at Ilrs is the following : http://ilrs.gsfc.nasa.gov/stations/sitelist/AJAF_general.html The link for Ftlrs live cam : http://grasse.obs-azur.fr/cerga/laser/ftlrs_ajaccio From: Francis Pierron ******************************************************************************** |