MIBS breadboard ready for testing
conference paper
MIBS is a spectrometer operating in the thermal infrared wavelength region, designed in frame of the phase A study for the ESA EarthCARE mission as part of the multispectral Imaging instrument MSI, which uses a 2D microbolometer array detector in stead of the more common MCT detectors. Utilization of a microbolometer and using an integrated calibration system, results in a sensor with a size and mass reduction of at least an order of magnitude when compared to currently flying instruments with similar spectral resolution. In order to demonstrate feasibility a breadboard has been designed, which will be build and aligned in 2006 and will be ready for testing the forth quarter of 2006.
Topics
TNO Identifier
239589
ISSN
0277786X
ISBN
9780819463753
Article nr.
No.: 62961C
Source title
Earth Observing Systems XI, 14-16 August 2006, San Diego, CA, USA
Collation
9 p.