Aerosol polarimetry sensor for the Glory Mission

Richard J. Peralta; Carl Nardell; Brian Cairns; Edgar E. Russell; Larry D. Travis; Michael I. Mishchenko; Bryan A. Fafaul; Ronald J. Hooker

doi:10.1117/12.783307

15 November 2007 Aerosol polarimetry sensor for the Glory Mission

Richard J. Peralta, Carl Nardell, Brian Cairns, Edgar E. Russell, Larry D. Travis, Michael I. Mishchenko, Bryan A. Fafaul, Ronald J. Hooker

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Proceedings Volume 6786, MIPPR 2007: Automatic Target Recognition and Image Analysis; and Multispectral Image Acquisition; 67865L (2007) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.783307
Event: International Symposium on Multispectral Image Processing and Pattern Recognition, 2007, Wuhan, China

Abstract

This paper describes the Glory Mission Aerosol Polarimetry Sensor (APS) being built by Raytheon under contract to NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center. Scheduled for launch in late 2008, the instrument is part of the US Climate Change Research Initiative to determine the global distribution of aerosols and clouds with sufficient accuracy and coverage to establish the aerosol effects on global climate change as well as begin a precise long-term aerosol record. The Glory APS is a polarimeter with nine solar reflectance spectral bands that measure the first three Stokes parameters vector components for a total of 27 unique measurements. In order to improve the reliability and accuracy of the measurements, additional 9 redundant measurements are made, yielding a total of 36 channels. The sensor is designed to acquire spatial, temporal, and spectral measurements simultaneously to minimize instrumental effects and provide extremely accurate Raw Data Records. The APS scans in the direction close to of the spacecraft velocity vector in order to acquire multi-angle samples for each retrieval location so that the Stokes parameters can be measured as functions of view angle.

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Richard J. Peralta, Carl Nardell, Brian Cairns, Edgar E. Russell, Larry D. Travis, Michael I. Mishchenko, Bryan A. Fafaul, and Ronald J. Hooker "Aerosol polarimetry sensor for the Glory Mission", Proc. SPIE 6786, MIPPR 2007: Automatic Target Recognition and Image Analysis; and Multispectral Image Acquisition, 67865L (15 November 2007); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.783307

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