SCIAMACHY: a new generation of hyperspectral remote sensing instrument

Rolf Mager; Wolfgang Fricke; John P. Burrows; Johannes Frerick; Heinrich Bovensmann

doi:10.1117/12.274707

22 May 1997 SCIAMACHY: a new generation of hyperspectral remote sensing instrument

Rolf Mager, Wolfgang Fricke, John P. Burrows, Johannes Frerick, Heinrich Bovensmann

Proceedings Volume 3106, Spectroscopic Atmospheric Monitoring Techniques; (1997) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.274707
Event: Environmental Sensing III, 1997, Munich, Germany

Abstract

The scanning imaging absorption spectrometer for atmospheric cartography (SCIAMACHY) is a passive optical instrument applied for the remote sensing of the earth atmosphere. SCIAMACHY is the German/Dutch contribution to the first ENVISAT mission defined by ESA and will be launched on the Polar Platform in 1999. Dornier Satellitensysteme GmbH has the prime-contract by the German agency DARA and Fokker Space B.V the prime contract by the Dutch agency NIVR with participation of the Belgian institute BIRA. The primary scientific objective of SCIAMACHY instrument is to observe the atmosphere by measuring sun- and moonlight which is transmitted, reflected and scattered by the earth's atmosphere. Based on the atmospheric absorption of light in the 240 nm to 2385 nm bandwidth concentrations of ozone, greenhouse and trace gases will be determined. The instrument was conceived to improve our knowledge and understanding of a variety of issues of importance to chemistry and physics of the earth's atmosphere such as ozone hole chemistry, troposphere-stratosphere exchange and tropospheric pollution.

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Rolf Mager, Wolfgang Fricke, John P. Burrows, Johannes Frerick, and Heinrich Bovensmann "SCIAMACHY: a new generation of hyperspectral remote sensing instrument", Proc. SPIE 3106, Spectroscopic Atmospheric Monitoring Techniques, (22 May 1997); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.274707

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