CHAPTER 6 CONCLUSIONS AND RECOMMENDATIONS
6.2 Recommendations
For future work, we recommend a procedure to improve the accuracy of altimeter-derived gravity anomalies: (1) retrack near-shore waveforms of altimeter to produce waveform-corrected SSHs, (2) use the corrected SSHs to improve tide model, (3) use improved tide model to correct for the ocean tide effect in SSH. Finally, the improved tide-corrected and waveform-corrected altimeter data will lead to an improved gravity field over shallow waters. In addition, the altimeter derived gravity could be improved by merging the altimeter data available today with those derived from future and more accurate missions, and by combining with other sources of data, such as airborne observations and shipborne gravity data to do the prediction procedure.
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