Development of 2 μm InGaAs radiometer for preflight cross-calibration experiment

Author

Sakuma, Fumihiro ; Kawakami, Shuji ; Kuze, Akihiko

Author_Institution

Nat. Inst. of Adv. Ind. Sci. & Technol. (AIST), Tsukuba

Volume

4

fYear

2008

fDate

7-11 July 2008

Abstract

This paper describes the development of the 2 mum InGaAs transfer standard radiometer to be used for the preflight cross-calibration experiment between the GOSAT and the OCO. Both are to be launched in 2008 for monitoring the density distributions of greenhouse gases from space.

Keywords

air pollution; atmospheric composition; atmospheric measuring apparatus; atmospheric techniques; calibration; radiometers; radiometry; remote sensing; semiconductor device manufacture; semiconductor devices; spectrochemical analysis; AD 2008; GOSAT; InGaAs radiometer; OCO; greenhouse gas density distribution monitoring; preflight crosscalibration experiment; size 2 mum; transfer standard radiometer; Aerospace industry; Calibration; Global warming; Indium gallium arsenide; Manufacturing; Monitoring; Radiometry; Satellite broadcasting; Standards development; Temperature; GOSAT; cross calibration; fixed-point calibration; radiometer; size of source effect; spectral responsivity;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Geoscience and Remote Sensing Symposium, 2008. IGARSS 2008. IEEE International

Conference_Location

Boston, MA

Print_ISBN

978-1-4244-2807-6

Electronic_ISBN

978-1-4244-2808-3

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/IGARSS.2008.4779983

Filename

4779983