Ocean Surface Topography Mission

Centre National D'études Spatiales , National Aeronautics and Space Administration, European Organisation for the Exploitation of Meteorological Satellites, National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration
June, 2008 to October, 2017

Jason-2 is a follow-on satellite to the joint CNES/NASA oceanography mission Jason (or Jason-1, with a launch Dec. 7, 2001). Jason-1, in turn is a follow-on mission of TOPEX/Poseidon, the ocean surface topography since its launch in 1992 (operations ceased on Oct. 9, 2005).

directory.eoportal.org

http://sealevel.jpl.nasa.gov/mission/ostm.html

Instrument	Datasets
Global Positioning System Payload	0
Laser Retroreflector Array	0
Positioning Ocean Solid Earth Ice Dynamics Orbiting Navigator (Single frequency solid state radar altimeter)	15
Advanced Microwave Radiometer	14
Doppler Orbitography and Radio-positioning Integrated by Satellite-NG	0
JASON Microwave Radiometer	0

Also known as :

• missionID 419 (ceos lexicon)
• Mission OSTM (Jason-2) (ceos lexicon)
• resource Ocean_Surface_Topography_Mission (dbpedia lexicon)
• Platform OSTM/Jason-2 (podaac lexicon)