Ozone monitoring instrument calibration

Author

Dobber, Marcel R. ; Dirksen, Ruud J. ; Levelt, Pieternel F. ; van den Oord, G.H.J. ; Voors, Robert H M ; Kleipool, Quintus ; Jaross, Glen ; Kowalewski, Matthew ; Hilsenrath, Ernest ; Leppelmeier, Gilbert W. ; De Vries, Johan ; Dierssen, Werner ; Rozemeije

Author_Institution

R. Netherlands Meteorol. Inst., De Bilt, Netherlands

Volume

44

Issue

5

fYear

2006

fDate

5/1/2006 12:00:00 AM

Firstpage

1209

Lastpage

1238

Abstract

The Ozone Monitoring Instrument (OMI) was launched on July 15, 2004 on the National Aeronautics and Space Administration´s Earth Observing System Aura satellite. The OMI instrument is an ultraviolet-visible imaging spectrograph that uses two-dimensional charge-coupled device detectors to register both the spectrum and the swath perpendicular to the flight direction with a 115° wide swath, which enables global daily ground coverage with high spatial resolution. This paper presents the OMI design and discusses the main performance and calibration features and results.

Keywords

CCD image sensors; aerospace instrumentation; artificial satellites; atmospheric composition; atmospheric measuring apparatus; calibration; remote sensing; ultraviolet spectrometers; 2D charge-coupled device detectors; AD 2004 07 15; Aura satellite; NASA Earth Observing System; OMI design; Ozone Monitoring Instrument; global daily ground coverage; instrument calibration; remote sensing; ultraviolet spectroscopy; ultraviolet-visible imaging spectrograph; Atmospheric measurements; Calibration; Electromagnetic wave absorption; Instruments; Meteorology; NASA; Remote monitoring; Space technology; Spectroscopy; Sun; Calibration; charge coupled device (CCD); remote sensing; ultraviolet spectroscopy;

fLanguage

English

Journal_Title

Geoscience and Remote Sensing, IEEE Transactions on

Publisher

ieee

ISSN

0196-2892

Type

jour

DOI

10.1109/TGRS.2006.869987

Filename

1624601