Dr. Paolo Bensi Profile

Dr. Paolo Bensi

at European Space Research and Technology Ctr

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Proceedings Article | 21 November 2017 Open Access

Sentinel-4: the geostationary component of the GMES atmosphere monitoring missions

G. Bazalgette Courrèges-Lacoste, M. Arcioni, Y. Meijer, J.-L. Bézy, P. Bensi, J. Langen

Proceedings Volume 10566, 105661Y (2017) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2308287

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Proceedings Article | 21 November 2017 Open Access

Meteosat third generation: preliminary imagery and sounding mission concepts and performances

Donny Aminou, Jean-Loup Bézy, Paolo Bensi, Rolf Stuhlmann, Antonio Rodriguez

Proceedings Volume 10567, 1056706 (2017) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2308182

KEYWORDS: Infrared imaging, Sensors, Fourier transforms, Imaging systems, Satellites, Ultraviolet radiation, Telescopes, Lithium, Clouds, Spectral resolution

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Proceedings Article | 20 November 2017 Open Access

Premier’s imaging IR limb sounder

Stefan Kraft, Jean-Loup Bézy, Roland Meynart, Jörg Langen, Bernardo Carnicero Dominguez, Paolo Bensi, Pierluigi Silvestrin

Proceedings Volume 10564, 105641T (2017) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2309084

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Proceedings Article | 11 November 2014 Paper

Concepts for a geostationary-like polar mission

Malcolm Macdonald, Pamela Anderson, Laura Carrea, Benjamin Dobke, Owen Embury, Chris Merchant, Paolo Bensi

Proceedings Volume 9241, 92411B (2014) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2067142

KEYWORDS: Space operations, Clouds, Humidity, Composites, Remote sensing, Infrared radiation, Aerosols, Satellites, Environmental sensing, Infrared imaging

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Proceedings Article | 12 October 2011 Paper

PREMIER's imaging IR limb sounder

Stefan Kraft, Jerome Caron, Jean-Loup Bézy, Roland Meynart, Jörg Langen, Bernardo Carnicero Dominguez, Paolo Bensi, Pierluigi Silvestrin

Proceedings Volume 8176, 81760A (2011) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.898328

KEYWORDS: Sensors, Interferometers, Troposphere, Infrared imaging, Point spread functions, Temperature metrology, Knowledge management, Climatology, Stratosphere, Atmospheric chemistry

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Proceedings Article | 19 October 2010 Paper

Feasibility studies for the follow-on EUMETSAT polar system

S. Banfi, P. Schlüssel, D. Diebel, P. Clarke, M. Betto, Chung-Chi Lin, V. Kangas, S. Kraft, P. Bensi, I. Zerfowski, M. Saccoccio, T. Maciaszek

Proceedings Volume 7826, 78260O (2010) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.864925

KEYWORDS: Clouds, Satellites, Aerosols, Climatology, Antennas, Calibration, Data acquisition, Microwave radiation, Space operations, Water

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Proceedings Article | 9 October 2008 Paper

ESA contribution to the GMES atmosphere monitoring missions

G. Bazalgette Courrèges-Lacoste, M. Arcioni, Y. Meijer, J.-L. Bézy, P. Bensi, J. Langen

Proceedings Volume 7106, 71060D (2008) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.800224

KEYWORDS: Signal to noise ratio, Polarization, Near infrared, Atmospheric monitoring, Short wave infrared radiation, Spectral resolution, Sensors, Ultraviolet radiation, Climatology, Calibration

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Proceedings Article | 20 August 2008 Paper

ESA future Earth observation Explorer missions

J.-L. Bézy, P. Bensi, M. Berger, B. Carnicero, M. Davidson, M. Drinkwater, Y. Durand, F. Héliere, P. Ingmann, J. Langen, C. C. Lin, R. Meynart, H. Rebhan, P. Silvestrin, A. Thompson

Proceedings Volume 7081, 70810S (2008) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.797159

KEYWORDS: Spectroscopy, Luminescence, Climatology, Carbon, Clouds, Satellites, Antennas, Spatial resolution, Synthetic aperture radar, Vegetation

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Proceedings Article | 17 October 2007 Paper

The third cycle of Earth explorers core missions

Paolo Bensi, Jean-Loup Bézy, Chung-Chi Lin, Jörg Langen, Malcolm Davidson, Michael Berger, Helge Rebhan, Paul Ingmann, Pierluigi Silvestrin

Proceedings Volume 6744, 674402 (2007) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.747150

KEYWORDS: Luminescence, Climatology, Infrared radiation, Carbon, Carbon monoxide, Clouds, Spectroscopy, Infrared imaging, Synthetic aperture radar, Infrared spectroscopy

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The Living Planet Programme of the European Space Agency encompasses a science-driven strategy for monitoring the Earth from space. The Earth Explorer missions are defined, developed and operated in close cooperation with the science community and focus on the key components of the Earth System: the atmosphere, biosphere, hydrosphere, cryosphere and the Earth's interior. The emphasis of these missions is on providing data to advance our understanding of these individual components, their interaction with each other and the impacts that human activities have on natural Earth processes. By involving the science community from the beginning and introducing a peer-reviewed selection process, this ongoing user-driven approach has given the Earth science community an efficient tool in their endeavor to better understand and monitor our planet. So far, this process has resulted in six missions currently under development: GOCE, Cryosat, ADM Aeolus, SMOS, Swarm and EarthCARE. The third cycle of Earth Explorers Core Missions was started in 2005 to select the seventh Earth Explorer mission due to launch in 2014/2015. At present there are six candidate missions being assessed at pre-phase A level. These missions were chosen to enter the assessment phase as a result of the Call for Core Mission ideas released by ESA in 2005, which resulted in 24 proposals out of which six candidates were selected: - BIOMASS - global measurements of forest biomass and extent; - TRAQ - (TRopospheric composition and Air Quality) - Air quality monitoring and long-range transport of air pollutants; - PREMIER - (PRocess Exploration through Measurements of Infrared and millimetre-wave Emitted Radiation) Understanding the processes that link trace gases, radiation, chemistry and climate in the atmosphere; - FLEX - (FLuorescence EXplorer) - Observation of global photosynthesis through the measurement of fluorescence; - A-SCOPE - (Advanced Space Carbon and Climate Observation of Planet Earth) - Improving the understanding of the global carbon cycle and regional carbon dioxide fluxes; - CoReH₂O - (Cold Regions Hydrology High-resolution Observatory) - Detailed observations of key snow, ice and water cycle characteristics. This paper presents an overview of the six candidate missions, describing the scientific objectives and outlining the main aspects of the candidate implementation concept currently under evaluation.

Proceedings Article | 1 November 2005 Paper

Lidar sensors for monitoring greenhouse gases from space

Arnaud Hélière, Jean-loup Bézy, Paolo Bensi, Jörg Langen

Proceedings Volume 5984, 59840I (2005) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.628812

KEYWORDS: LIDAR, Gases, Sensors, Indium nitride, Gas sensors, Atmospheric laser remote sensing, Carbon dioxide lasers, Atmospheric sensing, Remote sensing, Backscatter

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Proceedings Article | 21 October 2005 Paper

Meteosat third generation: preliminary imagery and sounding mission concepts and performances

Donny Aminou, Jean-Loup Bézy, Paolo Bensi, Rolf Stuhlmann, Antonio Rodriguez

Proceedings Volume 5978, 59780K (2005) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.628126

KEYWORDS: Infrared imaging, Sensors, Lithium, Signal to noise ratio, Spectral resolution, Fourier transforms, Satellites, Imaging systems, Clouds, Spatial resolution

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The operational deployment of MSG-1 at the beginning of 2004, the first of a series of four Meteosat Second Generation (MSG) satellites, marks the start of a new era in Europe for the meteorological observations from the geostationary orbit. This new system shall be the backbone of the European operational meteorological services up to at least 2015. The time required for the definition and the development of new space systems as well as the approval process of such complex programs implies anyhow to plan well ahead for the future missions. EUMETSAT have initiated in 2001, with ESA support, a User Consultation Process aiming at preparing for a future operational geostationary meteorological satellite system in the post-MSG era, named Meteosat Third Generation (MTG). The first phase of the User Consultation Process was devoted to the definition and consolidation of end user requirements and priorities in the field of Nowcasting and Very Short Term Weather Forecasting (NWC), Medium/Short Range global and regional Numerical Weather Prediction (NWP), Climate and Air Composition Monitoring and to the definition of the relevant observation techniques. The following missions have been analysed and preliminary concepts studied: High Resolution Fast Imagery Mission (successor to MSG SEVIRI HRV mission); Full Disk High Spectral Resolution Imagery Mission (successor to the mission of other MSG-SEVIRI channels); Lightning Imagery Mission; IR Sounding Mission; UV-VIS-NIR Sounding Mission. After an initial post-MSG mission study (2003-2004) where preliminary instrument concepts were investigated allowing in the same time to consolidate the technical requirements for the overall system study, a pre-phase A study on MTG is on its final way for the overall system concept, architecture and programmatic aspects during 2004-2005 time frame. This paper provides an overview of the outcome of the MTG sensor concept studies conducted in the frame of the pre-phase A. It namely focuses onto the Imaging and Sounding Missions, highlights the resulting instrument concepts, establishes the critical technologies and introduces the study steps towards the implementation of the MTG development programme.

Proceedings Article | 4 November 2004 Paper

Meteosat third generation: preliminary design of the imaging radiometers and sounding instruments

Donny Aminou, Jean Loup Bezy, Paolo Bensi, Rolf Stuhlmann, Stephen Tjemkes, Antonio Rodriguez

Proceedings Volume 5570, (2004) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.565585

KEYWORDS: Sensors, Spatial resolution, Infrared imaging, Imaging systems, Ultraviolet radiation, Clouds, Spectral resolution, Satellites, Infrared radiation, Signal to noise ratio

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The operational deployment of MSG-1 at the beginning of 2004, the first of a series of four Meteosat Second Generation (MSG) satellites, marks the start of a new era in Europe for the meteorological observations from the geostationary orbit. The new system shall be the backbone of the European operational meteorological services up to at least 2015. The time required for the definition and the development of new space systems as well as the approval process of such complex programs implies anyhow to plan well ahead for the future missions. EUMETSAT have initiated in 2001, with ESA support, a User Consultation Process aiming at preparing for a future operational geostationary meteorological satellite system in the post-MSG era, named Meteosat Third Generation (MTG). The first phase of the User Consultation Process was devoted to the definition and consolidation of end user requirements and priorities in the field of Nowcasting and Very Short Term Weather Forecasting (NWC), Medium/Short Range global and regional Numerical Weather Prediction (NWP), Climate and Air Composition Monitoring and to the definition of the relevant observation techniques. The intermediate results of this first phase were presented to and discussed with the user community at the first Post-MSG User Consultation Workshop convened by EUMETSAT in November 2001 and further consolidated with the support of ESA in the area of potential observation techniques and sensor concepts via dedicated studies conducted in the 2003/2004 time frame. The following missions have been analysed and preliminary concepts studied: -High Resolution Fast Imagery Mission (successor to MSG SEVIRI HRV mission) -Full Disk High Spectral Resolution Imagery Mission (successor to the mission of other MSG-SEVIRI channels) -Lightning Imagery Mission -IR Sounding Mission -UV-VIS-NIR-SWIR Sounding Mission In March 2003, ESA and EUMETSAT derived technical requirements applicable to the MTG mission study where preliminary instrument concepts were investigated allowing in the same time to consolidate the technical requirements for the overall system study. This paper provides an overview of the outcome of the MTG observation techniques and sensor concept studies conducted in 2003-2004. It namely focuses onto the Imaging and Sounding Missions, highlights the resulting instrument concepts and introduces the study steps towards the implementation of the MTG development programme.

Proceedings Article | 26 October 2004 Paper

Meteosat third generation: user requirements and sensors concept

Jean-Loup Bezy, Donny Aminou, Paolo Bensi, Rolf Stuhlmann, Stephen Tjemkes, Antonio Rodriguez

Proceedings Volume 5542, (2004) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.559699

KEYWORDS: Infrared imaging, Spectral resolution, Infrared radiation, Clouds, Ultraviolet radiation, Spatial resolution, Image resolution, Atmospheric chemistry, Satellites, Environmental sensing

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Proceedings Article | 8 April 2003 Paper

System definition of the ESA earth explorer WALES mission

Arnaud Heliere, Jean-Loup Bezy, Paolo Bensi, Paul Ingmann

Proceedings Volume 4881, (2003) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.463033

KEYWORDS: Absorption, LIDAR, Transmitters, Receivers, Space telescopes, Laser stabilization, Telescopes, Optical filters, Climatology, Error analysis

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