Sentinel-3 is part of a series of Sentinel satellites responsible for taking care of a continuous ‘health check’ of the Earth planet under the umbrella of the Copernicus program. The Copernicus program will launch four Sentinel-3 satellites (from A to D) to achieve this goal from 2016 to 2030s. EUMETSAT’s ground segment is responsible for the processing of the Sentinel-3 altimetry data in the marine environment: open ocean, coastal zones and sea level into the...