The EarthCARE multispectral imager thermal infrared optical unit detection system design

Luis Gomez Rojas; Mark Chang; Guy Baister; Gordon Hopkinson; Matthew Maher; Matthew Price; Mark Skipper; Trevor Wood; David Woods

doi:10.1117/12.869250

13 October 2010 The EarthCARE multispectral imager thermal infrared optical unit detection system design

Luis Gomez Rojas, Mark Chang, Guy Baister, Gordon Hopkinson, Matthew Maher, Matthew Price, Mark Skipper, Trevor Wood, David Woods

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Proceedings Volume 7826, Sensors, Systems, and Next-Generation Satellites XIV; 78260H (2010) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.869250
Event: SPIE Remote Sensing, 2010, Toulouse, France

Abstract

The EarthCARE satellite mission objective is the observation of clouds and aerosols from low Earth orbit. The key spatial context providing instrument within the payload suite of 4 instruments is the Multi-Spectral Imager (MSI).The MSI will take data at 500m ground sample distance (GSD) over a swath width of 150 km via pushbroom imaging. One part of the MSI instrument will be a thermal IR optical unit (TIROU). We describe the design of the focal plane array for the TIROU, its time-delay and integration readout scheme and present results derived from its associated simulator.

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Luis Gomez Rojas, Mark Chang, Guy Baister, Gordon Hopkinson, Matthew Maher, Matthew Price, Mark Skipper, Trevor Wood, and David Woods "The EarthCARE multispectral imager thermal infrared optical unit detection system design", Proc. SPIE 7826, Sensors, Systems, and Next-Generation Satellites XIV, 78260H (13 October 2010); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.869250

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