A technical account of the complex calibration and validation of the instruments onboard ESA's ERS-1 environmental satellite.

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00:02:30:00 ESA opening sequence
00:02:50:00 gvs' melting ice in Antarctica, rising sea levels
00:03:12:00 time lapse var s' seedling growth, opening leaves
00:03:24:00 graphic Earth
00:03:27:00 ms Ariane night launch
00:03:33:00 animation ERS-1 [European remote-Sensing Satellite] deployment
00:04:32:00 title: The Calibration And Validation Of ERS-1
00:04:37:00 animation ERS-1 flight path
00:05:13:00 animations ms ERS-1 [radar measurements, transmission to ground stations, data processing]
00:06:11:00 ms ERS-1, workers in f/g
00:06:17:00 gvs' calibration of a lorry speedometer
00:06:52:00 animations ERS-1, data processing
00:07:34:00 title: Engineering Calibration
00:07:37:00 vls precision transponder turns to face satellite [night], zi to ms
00:07:55:00 la cs transponder, signal graphics superimposed
00:08:05:00 animation ERS-1 SAR [Synthetic Aperture Radar]
00:08:25:00 SAR image at different magnifications to show diffraction patterns as sea passes around island
00:08:37:00 SAR image