EarthCARE(Earth Clouds, Aerosols and Radiation Explorer) project is a candidate of the ESA (European Space Agency) Earth Explorer Core Missions. EarthCARE is the joint proposal between ESA, National Space Development Agency of JAPAN (NASDA) and Communications Research Laboratory (CRL). THe Phase-A study is started in NOvember 2001. The EarthCARE satellite has five sensors, CLoud Profiling Radar (CPR), ATmospheric LIDar (ATLID), Multi-Spectral Imager (MSI), Broad Band Radiometer (BBR) and Fourier Transform Spectromter (FTS). Main objective of EarthCARE FTS is to provide spectrally resolved outgoing radiance. Another objecitve of EarthCARE FTS is to retrieve temperature and water vapor profiles in clear air and above the clouds. NASDA is carrying out the Phase A study of EarthCARE. Preliminary Concept Review (PCR) was held at March 2003. We describe the objectives and instrument design concept of EarthCARE FTS in this paper.
Objectives and instrument design of EarthCARE FTS
Infrared Spaceborne Remote Sensing XI ; 2003 ; San Diego,California,United States
Proc. SPIE ; 5152
2003-11-10
Conference paper
Electronic Resource
English
Thermal design of the EarthCARE MSI-VNS instrument
AIAA | 2011
|2011-5071 Thermal design of the EarthCARE MSI-VNS instrument
British Library Conference Proceedings | 2011
|Lidars: CALIPSO, EarthCARE, ACCP
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