Dr. Takahiro Kawashima Profile

Dr. Takahiro Kawashima

at Univ of Tokyo

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earth observation sensor , optical sensor , atmospheric physics

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Proceedings Article | 19 October 2023 Presentation + Paper

Feasibility study of green food system support satellite (GreFSat)

Takahiro Kawashima, Akira Iwasaki, Shinichi Nakasuka, Yoshio Inoue, Naoto Yokoya, Toshiyoshi Kimura, Takuki Sano, Seichi Sato, Atsushi Noda, Hidenori Takahashi, Minoru Kurose, Hiroyuki Iwazaki, Kazutsugu Ogata, Seizo Suzuki

Proceedings Volume 12729, 127290J (2023) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2680138

KEYWORDS: Signal to noise ratio, Sensors, Signal processing, Satellites, Digital signal processing, Design and modelling, Image processing, Process control, Spectroscopy, Quantum efficiency

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Proceedings Article | 12 September 2021 Poster + Presentation + Paper

End-to-end performance simulator for green house gas observation sensor

Takahiro Kawashima, Akira Iwasaki, Toshiyoshi Kimura, Tadahito Mizutani

Proceedings Volume 11858, 118581A (2021) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2600186

KEYWORDS: Atmospheric modeling, Sensors, Device simulation, Signal to noise ratio, Atmospheric sensing, Data modeling, Fourier transforms, Absorption, Algorithm development, Carbon dioxide

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For evaluation of system design validity of earth observation sensors in the early development phase, recently many endto-end performance simulators to predict final product accuracy based on sensor hardware design as well as data analysis algorithm were developed. Nevertheless, these performance simulators are very complicated because of most earth observation satellite projects have become too huge, as a result, it is hard to grasp the whole picture of the simulator. We are planning to develop generic end-to-end performance simulator. Its basic strategy is to make the simulator to be simple and to be able to explain the whole system including the relation between instrumental design and the final product, and not to introduce outside complicated black-box model. We started with fundamental mathematics which describe sensor performance and retrieval algorithm. A performance simulator of a Fourier Transform Spectrometer (FTS) applied for green house observation like Greenhouse Gases Observing SATellite (GOSAT) was constructed as a model case. Key performance of the sensor for determination of CO₂ column averaged mole fractions (XCO₂) during retrieval process are determination accuracy of the instrumental line shape (ILS) and Signal to Noise Ratio (SNR). The ILS was calculated based on mathematical models with instrumental design parameters of GOSAT, and then expected synthetic atmospheric absorption spectrum obtained by the sensor was simulated based on the ILS and an atmospheric forward model. The atmospheric forward model was based on Lambert-Beer law together with the solar irradiance and CO₂ absorption cross section database with assumed XCO₂, as well as vertical profile of background atmospheric temperature and pressure from meteorological model. Retrieved XCO₂ was simulated with its accuracy based on various ILS determination accuracy and SNR. We also applied this simulator to on-orbit data of GOSAT and retrieved XCO2 from Level-1B spectra during period of April 1-30, 2021. As a result, the mean XCO₂ during the period of interest agreed with the mean XCO₂ of Level-2 products provided by the National Institute for Environmental Studies (NIES) by a difference of 0.5 ppm. In this way, we not only constructed the end-to-end simulator from scratch, but also evaluated the validity of the output products by the actual on-orbit data.

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