Speakers
Daniel Navarro
(ESA)Dr
David Bühler
(HE Space)
Description
Based on highly autonomous and pointing-agile PROBA-NEXT Platform, the ALTIUS satellite embarks an optical instrument made of three independent channels (VIS, UV and NIR) to observe the Earth limb through a field of view of 100 km x 100 km, measuring scattered sun light (bright limb) and atmospheric attenuation (solar and stellar occultation mode) in fully tuneable monochromatic 2-D images.
The characteristics of the ALTIUS System, platform and instrument will be presented, together with the operational concept and the radiometric, spectral and geometrical performances at Level 1, as acquired by the instrument and corrected on ground.
Primary author
Daniel Navarro
(ESA)
Co-authors
Mrs
Luciana Montrone
(ESA/ESTEC)
Mr
Nicolas Saillen
(ESA/ESTEC)
Dr
David Bühler
(HE Space)
Stefano Santandrea
(ESA/ESTEC)
