Error budget

On hydrology products

  Coverage Mode Height precision Other errors/accuracies
Hydrology products: river by nodes Global inventory of rivers > 100 m (goal: 50 m) High Rate (HR) mode Water surface height precision < 10 cm (after averaging over 1 km2)
Slope precision < 1.7 cm/km (after averaging over 10 km)
Relative error of water mask < 15% (goal: 25 %))
Flagging of rain, topographic layover, frozen surface water (accuracy > 68%)
Hydrology products: rivers by reaches Global inventory of rivers > 100 m (goal: 50 m) High Rate (HR) mode Water surface height precision < 10 cm (after averaging over 1 km2)
Slope precision < 1.7 cm/km (after averaging over 10 km)
Relative error of water mask < 15% (goal: 25 %)
Flagging of rain, topographic layover, frozen surface water (accuracy > 68%)
Hydrology products: lakes Global inventory of lakes, reservoirs and wetlands > 250x250 m2 (goal: 100x100 m2) High Rate (HR) mode Water surface height precision < 10 cm (after averaging over 1 km2) Relative error of water mask < 15% (goal: 25 %))
Flagging of rain, topographic layover, frozen surface water (accuracy > 68%)
Hydrology products: "raster" High Rate mask (100 or 250 m sampling) High Rate (HR) mode Water surface height precision < 10 cm (after averaging over 1 km2) Relative error of water mask < 15% (goal: 25 %))
Flagging of rain, topographic layover, frozen surface water (accuracy > 68%)
Hydrology products: pixel cloud High Rate mask (20 m average sampling) High Rate (HR) mode Water surface height precision < 10 cm (after averaging over 1 km2) Relative error of water mask < 15% (goal: 25 %))
Flagging of rain, topographic layover, frozen surface water (accuracy > 68%)

 

On ocean products

  Coverage Mode Height precision Other errors/accuracies
Ocean products : "Basic" SSH Global coverage (<78°), geographically fixed grid, 2x2 km pixel posting and resolution Low Rate (LR) mode Sea surface height precision < 1.2 cm (integrating over ocean wavelengths between 15 km and 1000 km) The product also contains measurement and uncertainty estimates for significant wave height and wind speed.
Flagging of rain, sea ice (accuracy > 68%)
Ocean products : "Unsmoothed" SSH Global coverage (<78°), 250x250 m posting, 500x500 m resolution Low Rate (LR) mode Sea surface height precision < 1.2 cm (integrating over ocean wavelengths between 15 km and 1000 km) The product also contains measurement and uncertainty estimates for significant wave height and wind speed.
Flagging of rain, sea ice (accuracy > 68%)