Earth cloud, aerosol, and radiation explorer optical payload development status

A. Hélière; K. Wallace; J. Pereira do Carmo; A. Lefebvre

doi:10.1117/12.2276144

29 September 2017 Earth cloud, aerosol, and radiation explorer optical payload development status

A. Hélière, K. Wallace, J. Pereira do Carmo, A. Lefebvre

Proceedings Volume 10423, Sensors, Systems, and Next-Generation Satellites XXI; 1042304 (2017) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2276144
Event: SPIE Remote Sensing, 2017, Warsaw, Poland

Abstract

The European Space Agency (ESA) and the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) are co-operating to develop as part of ESA’s Living Planet Programme, the third Earth Explorer Core Mission, EarthCARE, with the ojective of improving the understanding of the processes involving clouds, aerosols and radiation in the Earth’s atmosphere. EarthCARE payload consists of two active and two passive instruments: an ATmospheric LIDar (ATLID), a Cloud Profiling Radar (CPR), a Multi-Spectral Imager (MSI) and a Broad-Band Radiometer (BBR). The four instruments data are processed individually and in a synergetic manner to produce a large range of products, which include vertical profiles of aerosols, liquid water and ice, observations of cloud distribution and vertical motion within clouds, and will allow the retrieval of profiles of atmospheric radiative heating and cooling. MSI is a compact instrument with a 150 km swath providing 500 m pixel data in seven channels, whose retrieved data will give context to the active instrument measurements, as well as providing cloud and aerosol information. BBR measures reflected solar and emitted thermal radiation from the scene. Operating in the UV range at 355 nm, ATLID provides atmospheric echoes from ground to an altitude of 40 km. Thanks to a high spectral resolution filtering, the lidar is able to separate the relative contribution of aerosol and molecular scattering, which gives access to aerosol optical depth. Co-polarised and cross-polarised components of the Mie scattering contribution are measured on dedicated channels. This paper will provide a description of the optical payload implementation, the design and characterisation of the instruments.

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A. Hélière, K. Wallace, J. Pereira do Carmo, and A. Lefebvre "Earth cloud, aerosol, and radiation explorer optical payload development status", Proc. SPIE 10423, Sensors, Systems, and Next-Generation Satellites XXI, 1042304 (29 September 2017); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2276144

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