Spatial characterization of PACE OCI ETU using time-delay mode

Hyeungu Choi; Jeff McIntire; Samuel Kitchen-McKinley; Gerhard Meister; Leland Chemerys; Shihyan Lee

doi:10.1117/12.2632640

30 September 2022 Spatial characterization of PACE OCI ETU using time-delay mode

Hyeungu Choi, Jeff McIntire, Samuel Kitchen-McKinley, Gerhard Meister, Leland Chemerys, Shihyan Lee

Proceedings Volume 12232, Earth Observing Systems XXVII; 1223211 (2022) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2632640
Event: SPIE Optical Engineering + Applications, 2022, San Diego, California, United States

Abstract

The OCI (Ocean Color Instrument) is the main sensor on the upcoming PACE (Plankton Aerosol Cloud ocean Ecosystem) mission. OCI has two hyperspectral CCD sensors covering 340nm to 885nm and 9 SWIR (Short Wave IR) bands from 940nm to 2260nm. SWIR bands have nominal 1km ground pixel size and CCD bands have native 1/8 km ground pixel size in diagnostic mode that will be aggregated into 1km pixels to improve SNR and meet the data rate constraints. OCI has a rotating telescope that is synchronized to the readout of the CCD and SWIR detectors. Full pre-launch system level testing for the OCI ETU (Engineering Test Unit) was completed in June 2021. With time-delayed scan mode, a sub-pixel level time-delay step is applied to the detector readout. This sub-pixel level time-delay step causes a sub-pixel level shift in the start of the data collection. After collecting time-delay step scans with different step sizes, a scan profile with sub-pixel resolution can be constructed. 1/8 and 1/4 of CCD pixel resolutions were achieved using this mode. In this paper, the OCI time-delayed scan mode will be described as well as how it was used to calculate OCI’s high spatial resolution PSF (Point Spread Function), IFOV (instantaneous Field of View), MTF (Modulation Transfer Function), and BBR (Band to Band Registration).

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Hyeungu Choi, Jeff McIntire, Samuel Kitchen-McKinley, Gerhard Meister, Leland Chemerys, and Shihyan Lee "Spatial characterization of PACE OCI ETU using time-delay mode", Proc. SPIE 12232, Earth Observing Systems XXVII, 1223211 (30 September 2022); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2632640

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