Validation Plan for Research Applications - v1

This document describes the validation objectives, context, data required and criteria for acceptance. This will also contain a data procurement plan to ensure this validation. The validation does not address only data/products validation but are also meant for service validation. This document will contain the following volumes: 1. VP for Bathymetry determination from SAR imagery; 2. VP for Bathymetry, benthic classification and water quality determination from optical imagery; 3. VP for V essel detection with SAR; 4. VP for Time series processing for hyper temporal optical data analysis; 5. VP for Ocean and Coastal altimetry.