PACE OCI pre-launch ETU spectral characterization and performance

Samuel Kitchen-McKinley; Jeff McIntire; Hyeungu Choi; Gerhard Meister

doi:10.1117/12.2594306

1 August 2021 PACE OCI pre-launch ETU spectral characterization and performance

Samuel Kitchen-McKinley, Jeff McIntire, Hyeungu Choi, Gerhard Meister

Proceedings Volume 11829, Earth Observing Systems XXVI; 118290Q (2021) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2594306
Event: SPIE Optical Engineering + Applications, 2021, San Diego, California, United States

Abstract

The Ocean Color Instrument (OCI) is the primary sensor on the upcoming Plankton, Aerosol, Cloud ocean Ecosystem (PACE) mission. OCI is a new type of sensor compared to NASA’s ocean color heritage sensors VIIRS, MODIS, and SeaWiFs. Unlike its heritage sensors, OCI has two slit grating hyperspectral spectrographs in addition to a fiber-coupled multiband filter spectrograph. The two hyperspectral spectrographs provide continuous coverage from 340nm to 885nm in the UV to NIR range. These spectrographs use programmable CCD detectors that aggregate multiple CCD pixels that can effectively provide various spectral resolutions. The fiber-coupled multiband filter spectrograph provides seven discrete spectral bands from 940nm to 2260nm. OCI completed system level testing of the Engineering Test Unit (ETU) in June 2021 at the Goddard Space Flight Center (GSFC). The ETU contains one of the slit grating spectrographs (600nm to 885nm) and the fiber-coupled spectrograph. The ETU was tested in thermal vacuum (TVAC) in February 2020 and January 2021 to assess characterization and performance compliance to design requirements. This paper presents an overview of the spectral performance of the OCI ETU for relative spectral response (RSR), integrated Out-of-Band response (IOOB), system gain, band centers, and bandwidths.

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Samuel Kitchen-McKinley, Jeff McIntire, Hyeungu Choi, and Gerhard Meister "PACE OCI pre-launch ETU spectral characterization and performance", Proc. SPIE 11829, Earth Observing Systems XXVI, 118290Q (1 August 2021); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2594306

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