Focal plane array for the GERB instrument

Nick Nelms; Gillian I. Butcher; Oliver Blake; Richard Cole; Christopher Whitford; Andrew D. Holland

doi:10.1117/12.517153

19 February 2004 Focal plane array for the GERB instrument

Nick Nelms, Gillian I. Butcher, Oliver Blake, Richard Cole, Christopher Whitford, Andrew D. Holland

Proceedings Volume 5251, Detectors and Associated Signal Processing; (2004) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.517153
Event: Optical Systems Design, 2003, St. Etienne, France

Abstract

The Geostationary Earth Radiation Budget (GERB) instrument is an Earth observing scientific payload launched on-board the European Space Agency Meteosat Second Generation (MSG) satellite in September 2002. The instrument measures reflected and emitted radiation in two wavebands, 0.3 - 4 μm and 4 - 30 μm. The focal plane consists of a 256-element thermoelectric linear array operating at ~300 K and four application specific integrated circuits (ASIC) providing parallel amplification, filtering and digitisation. This paper describes in detail the design, operation and performance of the GERB focal plane array.

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Nick Nelms, Gillian I. Butcher, Oliver Blake, Richard Cole, Christopher Whitford, and Andrew D. Holland "Focal plane array for the GERB instrument", Proc. SPIE 5251, Detectors and Associated Signal Processing, (19 February 2004); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.517153

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