Remote Sensing | |
A Novel Satellite Mission Concept for Upper Air Water Vapour, Aerosol and Cloud Observations Using Integrated Path Differential Absorption LiDAR Limb Sounding | |
Alex Hoffmann8  Debbie Clifford10  Josep Aulinas2  James G. Carton1  Florian Deconinck6  Berivan Esen12  Jakob Hüsing11  Katharina Kern3  Stephan Kox13  David Krejci4,8  Thomas Krings8,14  Steffen Lohrey5,8  Patrick Romano7,8  Ricardo Topham8,9  | |
[1] School of Mechanical and Manufacturing Engineering, Dublin City University, Collins Avenue, Dublin 9, Ireland; E-Mail:;Computer Vision and Robotics group, University of Girona, Campus de Montilivi, P4 building, E-17071 Girona, Spain; E-Mail:;Department of Geography and Regional Science, University of Graz, Heinrichstrasse 36, A-8010 Graz, Austria; E-Mail:;Institute for Energy Systems and Thermodynamics, Vienna University of Technology, Getreidemarkt 9/6, A-1060 Vienna, Austria; E-Mail:;Atmospheric, Oceanic and Planetary Physics, Department of Physics, University of Oxford, Oxford OX1 3PU, UK; E-Mail:;Institut Supérieur de l’Aéronautique et de l’Espace, Supaero, 4 Avenue Edouard Belin, F-31054 Toulouse, France; E-Mail:;Institute of Communication Networks and Satellite Communications, Graz University of Technology, Inffeldgasse 12, A-8010 Graz, Austria; E-Mail:;Centre for Atmospheric Science, Department of Geography, University of Cambridge, Downing Place, Cambridge CB2 3EN, UK;International Space University, F-67400 Illkirch-Graffenstaden, France; E-Mail:;National Centre for Earth Observation, University of Reading, Earley Gate, Whiteknights, Reading RG6 6BB, UK; E-Mail:;Systems and Concurrent Engineering Section, ESTEC, ESA, Keplerlaan 1, 2200 AG Noordwijk, The Netherlands; E-Mail:;Department of Geology, University of Toronto, Toronto, ON M5S 3B1, Canada; E-Mail:;Institute of Atmospheric Physics, German Aerospace Center, Oberpfaffenhofen, D-82234 Wessling, Germany; E-Mail:;Institute of Environmental Physics (IUP), University of Bremen FB1, Otto Hahn Allee 1, D-28334 Bremen, Germany; E-Mail: | |
关键词: UTLS; stratosphere; active limb sounding; laser occultation; spaceborne retroreflectors; | |
DOI : 10.3390/rs4040867 | |
来源: mdpi | |
【 摘 要 】
We propose a new satellite mission to deliver high quality measurements of upper air water vapour. The concept centres around a LiDAR in limb sounding by occultation geometry, designed to operate as a very long path system for differential absorption measurements. We present a preliminary performance analysis with a system sized to send 75 mJ pulses at 25 Hz at four wavelengths close to 935 nm, to up to 5 microsatellites in a counter-rotating orbit, carrying retroreflectors characterized by a reflected beam divergence of roughly twice the emitted laser beam divergence of 15
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