Conveners
System concept and measurement methods
- Emmanuel Dekemper (BIRA-IASB)
- Didier Fussen (BIRA-IASB)
Dr
Emmanuel Dekemper
(Belgian Institute for Space Aeronomy)
02/05/2017, 11:00
<p><span style="font-family:verdana,geneva,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:20px">System concept and measurement methods</span></span></p>
Invited speaker
ALTIUS relies on the sucessful heritage of pioneering, though sucessful UV-VIS-NIR limb missions (OSIRIS, SCIAMACHY, SAGE-III, or GOMOS among others). They have demonstrated the possibility of retrieving atmospheric trace species concentration profiles from limb-scattered solar light, or from directly transmitted light from celestial bodies. To achieve this, most of them have sampled the light...
Mr
Joris Naudet
(QinetiQ Space)
02/05/2017, 11:20
<p><span style="font-family:verdana,geneva,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:20px">ALTIUS: Mission objectives and status</span></span></p>
Invited speaker
The PROBA satellite series, developed by QinetiQ Space for the European Space Agency’s, represent a benchmark in the small satellites domain. Meanwhile, the PROBA platform accumulated over 25 years in orbit, without failure on any of the launched satellites. With the latest mission, PROBA-V, QinetiQ Space also demonstrated the platform has evolved to a fully operational platform; after its...
Dr
Ludovic Aballea
(OIP N.V)
02/05/2017, 11:40
<p><span style="font-family:verdana,geneva,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:20px">System concept and measurement methods</span></span></p>
Invited speaker
In the past decade, there has been a significant reduction in the number of atmospheric sounders with a high vertical resolution in space. This impacts the monitoring of long-term trends for essential atmospheric species, such as Ozone. In this frame, the ALTIUS (Atmospheric Limb Tracker for the Investigation of the Upcoming Stratosphere) mission was proposed by the Belgian Institute of Space...
Dr
Heikki Saari
(VTT Microspectrometers)
02/05/2017, 12:00
<p><span style="font-family:verdana,geneva,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:20px">System concept and measurement methods</span></span></p>
Invited speaker
ALTIUS UV channel is intended for spectral imaging measurements in the wavelength range 250 – 400 nm at FWHM resolution around 2.5 nm. The UV channel entrance pupil diameter is 12.3 mm for bright limb channel and 50 mm for stellar occultation channel. The image size of the UV detector is 4.25 mm x 4.25 mm. The UV FPI assembly based tunable filter is placed in the optical chain in a...
Mr
Didier Pieroux
(BIRA-IASB), Dr
Jan Thoemel
(BIRA-IASB), Mr
Michel Kruglanski
(BIRA-IASB)
02/05/2017, 12:20
<p><span style="font-family:verdana,geneva,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:20px">System concept and measurement methods</span></span></p>
Invited speaker
The ground segment (GS) is a corner-stone element of any space mission. The objective of this presentation is two-fold. In a first part we will present the key elements that have a major impact on the design of the ALTIUS ground-segment: mission context, timeliness constraint, data volume and main operational concepts. The second part will then set the focus on the design of the payload data...
Didier Fussen
(BIRA-IASB),
Emmanuel Dekemper
(BIRA-IASB)
02/05/2017, 12:40
