Optical Component Performance for the Ocean Radiometer for Carbon Assessment (ORCA)
The Ocean Radiometer for Carbon Assessment (ORCA) is a new design for the next generation remote sensing of ocean biology and biogeochemistry. ORCA is configured to meet all the measurement requirements of the Decadal Survey Aerosol, Cloud, and Ecology (ACE), the Ocean Ecosystem (OES) radiometer and...
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ftnasantrs:oai:casi.ntrs.nasa.gov:20180001350 2023-05-15T17:53:21+02:00 Optical Component Performance for the Ocean Radiometer for Carbon Assessment (ORCA) McClain, Charles R. Waluschka, Eugene Wilson, Mark Quijada, Manuel A. Unclassified, Unlimited, Publicly available August 21, 2011 application/pdf http://hdl.handle.net/2060/20180001350 unknown Document ID: 20180001350 http://hdl.handle.net/2060/20180001350 No Copyright, Work of the U.S. Government - Public use permitted CASI Optics Earth Resources and Remote Sensing LEGNEW-OLDGSFC-GSFC-LN-1245 SPIE Optics and Photonics 2011 Conference; 21-25 Aug. 2011; San Diego, CA; United States 2011 ftnasantrs 2019-07-20T23:19:21Z The Ocean Radiometer for Carbon Assessment (ORCA) is a new design for the next generation remote sensing of ocean biology and biogeochemistry. ORCA is configured to meet all the measurement requirements of the Decadal Survey Aerosol, Cloud, and Ecology (ACE), the Ocean Ecosystem (OES) radiometer and the Pro-ACE climate data continuity mission (PACE). Under the auspices of a 2007 grant from NASA Research Opportunity in Space and Earth Science (ROSES) and the Instrument Incubator Program (IIP), a team at the Goddard Space Flight Center (GSFC) has been working on a functional prototype with flight-like fore and aft optics and scan mechanisms. As part of the development efforts to bring ORCA closer to a flight configuration and in order to reduce cost, we have conducted component-level optical testing using standard spectrophotometers and system-level characterizations using non-flight commercial off-the-shelf (COTS) focal plane array detectors. Although these arrays would not be able to handle flight data rates, they are adequate for optical alignment and performance testing. The purpose of this presentation is to describe the results of this testing performed at GSFC and the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) at the component and system level. Specifically, we show results for ORCA's spectral calibration ranging from the near UV, visible, and near-infrared spectral region. Other/Unknown Material Orca NASA Technical Reports Server (NTRS) |
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The Ocean Radiometer for Carbon Assessment (ORCA) is a new design for the next generation remote sensing of ocean biology and biogeochemistry. ORCA is configured to meet all the measurement requirements of the Decadal Survey Aerosol, Cloud, and Ecology (ACE), the Ocean Ecosystem (OES) radiometer and the Pro-ACE climate data continuity mission (PACE). Under the auspices of a 2007 grant from NASA Research Opportunity in Space and Earth Science (ROSES) and the Instrument Incubator Program (IIP), a team at the Goddard Space Flight Center (GSFC) has been working on a functional prototype with flight-like fore and aft optics and scan mechanisms. As part of the development efforts to bring ORCA closer to a flight configuration and in order to reduce cost, we have conducted component-level optical testing using standard spectrophotometers and system-level characterizations using non-flight commercial off-the-shelf (COTS) focal plane array detectors. Although these arrays would not be able to handle flight data rates, they are adequate for optical alignment and performance testing. The purpose of this presentation is to describe the results of this testing performed at GSFC and the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) at the component and system level. Specifically, we show results for ORCA's spectral calibration ranging from the near UV, visible, and near-infrared spectral region. |
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Optical Component Performance for the Ocean Radiometer for Carbon Assessment (ORCA) |
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Optical Component Performance for the Ocean Radiometer for Carbon Assessment (ORCA) |
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Optical Component Performance for the Ocean Radiometer for Carbon Assessment (ORCA) |
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