From ozone monitoring instrument (OMI) to tropospheric monitoring instrument (TROPOMI)

TROPOMI, the solar backscatter satellite instrument for air quality and climate, heads towards detailed design

The Tropospheric Monitoring Instrument (TROPOMI) is currently planned for launch on ESA's Sentinel 5 precursor satellite in the time frame of 2014. TROPOMI is an ultraviolet-to-SWIR wavelengths imaging spectrograph that uses two-dimensional detectors to register both the spectrum and the swath perpendicular to the flight direction. The swath is...

Breadboarding activities of the TROPOMI-SWIR module

The TROPOMI instrument concept is part of the TRAQ mission proposal to ESA in response to the Call for Ideas in 2005. TRAQ (TRopospheric composition and Air Quality) has been accepted for a further pre-phase A study for the next Earth Explorer core Mission. A very similar instrument has been proposed for the CAMEO platform to the US National...

TROPOMI: Solar backscatter satellite instrument for air quality and climate

TROPOMI is a nadir-viewing grating-based imaging spectrograph in the line of OMI and SCIAMACHY. TROPOMI is part of the ESA Candidate Core Explorer Mission proposal TRAQ and also of the CAMEO satellite proposed for the US NRC decadal study. A TROPOMI-like instrument is part of the ESA/EU Sentinel 4&5 pre-phase A studies. TROPOMI covers the OMI...

The ozone monitoring instrument

The Ozone Monitoring Instrument (OMI) flies on the National Aeronautics and Space Adminsitration's Earth Observing System Aura satellite launched in July 2004. OMI is a ultraviolet/visible (UV/VIS) nadir solar backscatter spectrometer, which provides nearly global coverage in one day with a spatial resolution of 13 km × 24 km. Trace gases...

From OMI to TROPOMI: Entering the realm of air quality from space

The Ozone Monitoring Instrument (OMI) on NASA's AURA satellite is one of the first instruments measuring an extensive set of daily air quality parameters from space. This anwers to a growing interest in obtaining space data for the air we breath next to the higher altitude air masses. OMI combines UV-Visible nadir viewing spectroscopy, small...

TROPOMI and TROPI: UV/VIS/NIR/SWIR instruments

TROPOMI (Tropospheric Ozone-Monitoring Instrument) is a five-channel UV-VIS-NIR-SWIR non-scanning nadir viewing imaging spectrometer that combines a wide swath (114°) with high spatial resolution (10 × 10 km 2). The instrument heritage consists of GOME on ERS-2, SCIAMACHY on Envisat and, especially, OMI on EOS-Aura. TROPOMI has even smaller...

Sciamachy instrument calibration and performance: First results

This document describes the state of calibration and performance of the SCIAMACHY instrument, to be launched on ENVISAT in 2000, after the main onground calibration and performance verification phases. A number of calibration and performance parameters will be discussed and results will be shown. The overall conclusion is that the SCIAMACHY...

Calibration of the SCIAMACHY instrument on the ESA-ENVISAT satellite

This document describes the calibration and performance of the SCIAMACHY instrument, to be launched on ESA-ENVISAT in 2000, after the main on-ground calibration and performance verification phases. A number of calibration and performance parameters will be discussed and results will be shown.

Observations of the moon by the global ozone monitoring experiment: Radiometric calibration and lunar albedo

The Global Ozone Monitoring Experiment (GOME) is a new instrument, which was launched aboard the second European Remoting Sensing satellite ESA-ERS2 in 1995. For its long-term radiometric and spectral calibration the GOME observes the sun and less frequently the moon on a regular basis. These measurements of the lunar radiance and solar...