Satellite Radar Altimetry L1-468
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Forward model E
Satellite Radar Altimetry: Radar altimetry: estimate sea surface height from radar echo waveform retracking (Brown model). The forward operator produces the measurement through a 3-node primitive DAG (S.altimeter.retracker_brown…); recovery is posed as a parameter_estimation problem. Difficulty tier delta=3 with effective condition number kappa_eff~30; rain_contamination, inland_water_reflection set the accuracy floor at the Omega boundary. See the forward_model field for the closed-form equation.
L-DAG
Well-posedness W
- Existence:
- true
- Uniqueness:
- true
- Stability:
- conditional
- κ:
- 500
Existence of the recovered 1D_sea_surface_height is guaranteed within the declared Omega bounds. Uniqueness holds on the measurement-supported subspace; out-of-support modes are controlled by declared priors. Stability is conditionally stable (kappa_eff ~= 30); rain_contamination dominates the stability cliff; the remaining mismatch parameters contribute higher-order bias terms. Thermal gaussian sets the irreducible data-fidelity floor.
Solvability C
- Solver class:
- classical [OCOG_retracker or Brown_MLE4 or SAMOSA]
- Convergence rate q:
- 2
- Complexity:
- O(N_gates * N_waveforms) per track per iteration