CALIPSO: lidar and wide-field camera performance

Carl Weimer; Ron Schwiesow; Mark LaPole

doi:10.1117/12.561613

26 October 2004 CALIPSO: lidar and wide-field camera performance

Carl Weimer, Ron Schwiesow, Mark LaPole

Proceedings Volume 5542, Earth Observing Systems IX; (2004) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.561613
Event: Optical Science and Technology, the SPIE 49th Annual Meeting, 2004, Denver, Colorado, United States

Abstract

The CALIPSO (Cloud-Aerosol Lidar and Infrared Pathfinder Satellite Observations) mission is designed to study the impact of clouds and aerosols on the Earth's radiation budget. Three instruments and their infrastructure make up the payload. They are a two-wavelength, polarization-sensitive lidar, a wide-field camera (WFC) operating at 645 nm, and a three-channel, infrared (IR), imaging radiometer (IIR) built by Sodern in France. The lidar is a follow-on to the short-duration LITE mission that flew on the shuttle.1 The lidar and WFC, built by Ball Aerospace under contract to NASA Langley Research Center, has completed its environmental and performance testing and is being integrated to the spacecraft in preparation for an April 2005 launch. This paper gives an overview of the testing and performance of this payload while being built and integrated at Ball Aerospace.

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Carl Weimer, Ron Schwiesow, and Mark LaPole "CALIPSO: lidar and wide-field camera performance", Proc. SPIE 5542, Earth Observing Systems IX, (26 October 2004); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.561613

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