Solar-occultation FTS for inclined-orbit satellite (SOFIS): scientific requirements and current status of development

Hideaki Nakajima; Akihiko Kuze; Takafumi Sugita; Tatsuya Yokota; Yasuhiro Sasano

doi:10.1117/12.416955

21 February 2001 Solar-occultation FTS for inclined-orbit satellite (SOFIS): scientific requirements and current status of development

Hideaki Nakajima, Akihiko Kuze, Takafumi Sugita, Tatsuya Yokota, Yasuhiro Sasano

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Proceedings Volume 4150, Optical Remote Sensing of the Atmosphere and Clouds II; (2001) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.416955
Event: Second International Asia-Pacific Symposium on Remote Sensing of the Atmosphere, Environment, and Space, 2000, Sendai, Japan

Abstract

The Solar Occultation FTS for Inclined-orbit Satellite (SOFIS) is a solar-occultation Fourier-transform spectrometer developed by the Environment Agency of Japan (EA). SOFIS onboard the Global Change Observation Mission-Al (GCOM-Al) satellite will be put into a 650 km non-sun-synchronous orbit with an inclination angle of 69 deg. GCOM-Al is scheduled to be launched in spring 2006. SOFIS is the successor of the Improved Limb Atmospheric Spectrometer-II (ILAS-II), which with travel onboard the Advanced Earth Observing Satellite-II (ADEOS-II). SOFIS will measure vertical profiles of atmospheric constituents with 0.2 cm^-1 spectral resolution at 3 - 13 micrometer with 1 km vertical resolution. The scientific objective of SOFIS is to measure global vertical distributions of O₃, N₂O, CH₄, CO₂, H₂O, HNO₃, NO₂, aerosols, CFC-11, CFC-12, and ClONO₂. SOFIS uses a double-pass dual-pendulum type Fourier transform spectrometer (FTS) and a diode laser sampling system to reduce the size and weight of the apparatus. Two photovoltaic (PV) HgCdTe (MCT) detectors and a pulse-tube cooler will provide high linearity and low-noise performance. SOFIS also has a visible (O₂ A band) grating spectrometer for pressure and temperature retrieval and a sun- edge sensor for detecting the tangent height position. This paper describes the characteristics of SOFIS and test results of laboratory models of the FTS and the detector.

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Hideaki Nakajima, Akihiko Kuze, Takafumi Sugita, Tatsuya Yokota, and Yasuhiro Sasano "Solar-occultation FTS for inclined-orbit satellite (SOFIS): scientific requirements and current status of development", Proc. SPIE 4150, Optical Remote Sensing of the Atmosphere and Clouds II, (21 February 2001); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.416955

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