MTG Flexible Combined Imager optical design and performances

Ouaknine, Julien; Gode, S.; Napierala, B.; Viard, Thierry; Foerster, U.; Fray, Sebastian; Peacoke, Patrick; Hartl, M.; Hallibert, Pascal; Durand, Yannig

doi:10.1117/12.2023078

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“…Most research to date has involved the Geostationary Ocean Color Imager (GOCI), which has transmitted eight images per day since 2010 in six visible (412, 443, 490, 555, 660, and 680 nm) and two infrared channels (745 and 865 nm), with 20 nm bandwidth at 500 m spatial resolution centered around the Korean Peninsula at 128.2 • E (Ahn et al, 2012;Choi et al, 2012;Ryu and Ishizaka, 2012;; Table 1). GOCI has been used to estimate ocean biogeochem-ical dynamics (Wang et al, 2013), including photosynthesis via chlorophyll-a absorption (Concha et al, 2019;Park et al, 2012) at diurnal timescales. Other geostationary sensors, including SEVIRI on the second generation of Meteosat (Schmetz et al, 2002) and (forthcoming) flexible combined imager (FCI) on the third generation of Meteosat (Ouaknine et al, 2013), are not designed explicitly for ocean color monitoring but have proven useful for monitoring marine suspended particulates and PAR attenuation in water (Neukermans et al, 2009;Ruddick et al, 2014), as has GOES (Jolliff et al, 2019).…”

Section: Ocean Colormentioning

confidence: 99%

Reviews and syntheses: Ongoing and emerging opportunities to improve environmental science using observations from the Advanced Baseline Imager on the Geostationary Operational Environmental Satellites

Khan¹,

Stoy

Douglas

et al. 2021

Biogeosciences

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Abstract. Environmental science is increasingly reliant on remotely sensed observations of the Earth's surface and atmosphere. Observations from polar-orbiting satellites have long supported investigations on land cover change, ecosystem productivity, hydrology, climate, the impacts of disturbance, and more and are critical for extrapolating (upscaling) ground-based measurements to larger areas. However, the limited temporal frequency at which polar-orbiting satellites observe the Earth limits our understanding of rapidly evolving ecosystem processes, especially in areas with frequent cloud cover. Geostationary satellites have observed the Earth's surface and atmosphere at high temporal frequency for decades, and their imagers now have spectral resolutions in the visible and near-infrared regions that are comparable to commonly used polar-orbiting sensors like the Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS), Visible Infrared Imaging Radiometer Suite (VIIRS), or Landsat. These advances extend applications of geostationary Earth observations from weather monitoring to multiple disciplines in ecology and environmental science. We review a number of existing applications that use data from geostationary platforms and present upcoming opportunities for observing key ecosystem properties using high-frequency observations from the Advanced Baseline Imagers (ABI) on the Geostationary Operational Environmental Satellites (GOES), which routinely observe the Western Hemisphere every 5–15 min. Many of the existing applications in environmental science from ABI are focused on estimating land surface temperature, solar radiation, evapotranspiration, and biomass burning emissions along with detecting rapid drought development and wildfire. Ongoing work in estimating vegetation properties and phenology from other geostationary platforms demonstrates the potential to expand ABI observations to estimate vegetation greenness, moisture, and productivity at a high temporal frequency across the Western Hemisphere. Finally, we present emerging opportunities to address the relatively coarse resolution of ABI observations through multisensor fusion to resolve landscape heterogeneity and to leverage observations from ABI to study the carbon cycle and ecosystem function at unprecedented temporal frequency.

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Section: Ocean Colormentioning

confidence: 99%

Reviews and syntheses: Ongoing and emerging opportunities to improve environmental science using observations from the Advanced Baseline Imager on the Geostationary Operational Environmental Satellites

Khan¹,

Stoy

Douglas

et al. 2021

Biogeosciences

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“…GOCI has been used to estimate ocean biogeochemical dynamics (Wang et al, 2013) including photosynthesis via chlorophyll-a absorption (Concha et al, 2018;Park et al, 2012) at diurnal time scales. Other geostationary sensors including SEVIRI on the 2nd generation of METEOSAT (Schmetz et al, 2002) and (forthcoming) flexible combined imager (FCI) on the 3rd generation of METEOSAT (Ouaknine et al, 2013) are not designed explicitly for ocean color monitoring but have proven useful for monitoring marine suspended particulates and PAR attenuation in water (Neukermans et al, 2009;Ruddick et al, 2014) as has GOES (Jolliff et al, 2019). All of these sensors provide an important complement to ocean color monitoring from polarorbiting satellites like MODIS-AQUA, MERIS, and the Ocean Land Color Instrument (OLCI) on Sentinel-3 (Nieke et al, 2012;Peschoud et al, 2017).…”

Section: Ocean Colormentioning

confidence: 99%

Reviews and syntheses: Ongoing and emerging opportunities to improve environmental science using observations from the Advanced Baseline Imager on the Geostationary Operational Environmental Satellites

Khan¹,

Stoy²,

Douglas³

et al. 2021

Preprint

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Abstract. Environmental science is increasingly reliant on remotely-sensed observations of the Earth's surface and atmosphere. Observations from polar-orbiting satellites have long supported investigations on land cover change, ecosystem productivity, hydrology, climate, the impacts of disturbance, and more, and are critical for extrapolating (upscaling) ground-based measurements to larger areas. However, the limited temporal frequency at which polar-orbiting satellites observe the Earth limits our understanding of rapidly evolving ecosystem processes, especially in areas with frequent cloud cover. Geostationary satellites have observed the Earth's surface and atmosphere at high temporal frequency for decades, and their imagers now have spectral resolutions in the visible and near-infrared regions that are comparable to commonly-used polar-orbiting sensors like the Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS), Visible Infrared Imaging Radiometer Suite (VIIRS), or Landsat. These advances extend applications of geostationary Earth observations from weather monitoring to multiple disciplines in ecology and environmental science. We review a number of existing applications that use data from geostationary platforms and present upcoming opportunities for observing key ecosystem properties using high-frequency observations from the Advanced Baseline Imagers (ABI) on the Geostationary Operational Environmental Satellites (GOES), which routinely observe the Western Hemisphere every 5–15 minutes. Many of the existing applications in environmental science from ABI are focused on estimating land surface temperature, solar radiation, evapotranspiration, and biomass burning emissions along with detecting rapid drought development and wildfire. Ongoing work in estimating vegetation properties and phenology from other geostationary platforms demonstrates the potential for expanding ABI observations to estimate vegetation greenness, moisture, and productivity at high temporal frequency across the Western Hemisphere. Finally, we present emerging opportunities to address the relatively coarse resolution of ABI observations through multi-sensor fusion to resolve landscape heterogeneity and to leverage observations from ABI to study the carbon cycle and ecosystem function at unprecedented temporal frequency.

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“…The program is ordered by EUMETSAT and realization is lead by ESA FCI is an highly resolved hyperspectral imager (several channels from 400nm to 14µm). It is composed of an assembly of several kind of detectors all conjugated by several dichroic plates placed at focal image plane of a Three-mirror AnastigmaticTelescope [1] .…”

Section: Contextmentioning

confidence: 99%

Effects of Lambertian sources design on uniformity and measurements

Cariou¹,

Durell²,

McKee³

et al. 2014

SPIE Proceedings

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Integrating sphere (IS) based uniform sources are a primary tool for ground based calibration, characterization and testing of flight radiometric equipment. The idea of a Lambertian field of energy is a very useful tool in radiometric testing, but this concept is being checked in many ways by newly lowered uncertainty goals. At an uncertainty goal of 2% one needs to assess carefully uniformity in addition to calibration uncertainties, as even sources with a 0.5% uniformity are now substantial proportions of uncertainty budgets. The paper explores integrating sphere design options for achieving 99.5% and better uniformity of exit port radiance and spectral irradiance created by an integrating sphere. Uniformity in broad spectrum and spectral bands are explored. We discuss mapping techniques and results as a function of observed uniformity as well as laboratory testing results customized to match with customer's instrumentation field of view. We will also discuss recommendations with basic commercial instrumentation, we have used to validate, inspect, and improve correlation of uniformity measurements with the intended application.

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MTG Flexible Combined Imager optical design and performances

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Reviews and syntheses: Ongoing and emerging opportunities to improve environmental science using observations from the Advanced Baseline Imager on the Geostationary Operational Environmental Satellites

Reviews and syntheses: Ongoing and emerging opportunities to improve environmental science using observations from the Advanced Baseline Imager on the Geostationary Operational Environmental Satellites

Reviews and syntheses: Ongoing and emerging opportunities to improve environmental science using observations from the Advanced Baseline Imager on the Geostationary Operational Environmental Satellites

Effects of Lambertian sources design on uniformity and measurements

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