Positioning Ocean Solid Earth Ice Dynamics Orbiting Navigator (Single frequency solid state radar altimeter)

National Aeronautics and Space Administration, Centre National D'études Spatiales

The Poseidon-2 altimeter is the main instrument on the Jason-1 mission. Derived from the Poseidon-1 altimeter on TOPEX/Poseidon, it measures sea level, wave heights and wind speed. It operates at two frequencies and is also able to estimate atmospheric electron content.

sealevel.jpl.nasa.gov

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Also known as :

• instrumentID 182 (ceos lexicon)
• Instrument POSEIDON-2 (SSALT-2) (ceos lexicon)
• Sensor POSEIDON-2 (podaac lexicon)