Prelaunch calibration of the HIRDLS instrument

John J. Barnett; A. G. Darbyshire; Christopher L. Hepplewhite; Christopher W. Palmer; F. Row; P. Venters; R. E.J. Watkins; John G. Whitney; John C. Gille; Brian R. Johnson

doi:10.1117/12.331316

18 November 1998 Prelaunch calibration of the HIRDLS instrument

John J. Barnett, A. G. Darbyshire, Christopher L. Hepplewhite, Christopher W. Palmer, F. Row, P. Venters, R. E.J. Watkins, John G. Whitney, John C. Gille, Brian R. Johnson

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Proceedings Volume 3437, Infrared Spaceborne Remote Sensing VI; (1998) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.331316
Event: SPIE's International Symposium on Optical Science, Engineering, and Instrumentation, 1998, San Diego, CA, United States

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The High Resolution Dynamics Limb Sounder (HIRDLS) instrument is being built jointly by the UK and USA, and is scheduled for launch on the NASA EOS Chem satellite in 2002. HIRDLS will measure the concentration of trace species and aerosol, and temperature and pressure variations in the Earth's atmosphere between about 8 and 100 km altitude. It is an infrared limb emission sounder, and a primary aim is that it should measure to much finder spatial resolution than has previously been achieved, with simultaneous 1 km vertical and 500 km horizontal resolutions, globally, every 12 hours. Achieving these objectives will depend upon very precise pre-launch calibration. This will be undertaken at Oxford University in a test laboratory that is currently being constructed specifically for the task. The instrument will be surrounded by cryogenically cooled walls, and mounted together with the test equipment on an optical table contained in a vacuum chamber. The table will be mounted independently of the chamber, on an inertial mass supported on pneumatic isolators. Test equipment is being manufactured to measure (1) the radiometric response (with an absolute accuracy equivalent to 70 mK) using full aperture black body targets, (2) the spectral response of each of the filter channels using a grating monochromator, (3) the spatial response of the instrument field of view, including low level out-of-field contributions, to 10 (mu) rad accuracy using a monochromator. The methods and equipment used are described together with the principal requirements.

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John J. Barnett, A. G. Darbyshire, Christopher L. Hepplewhite, Christopher W. Palmer, F. Row, P. Venters, R. E.J. Watkins, John G. Whitney, John C. Gille, and Brian R. Johnson "Prelaunch calibration of the HIRDLS instrument", Proc. SPIE 3437, Infrared Spaceborne Remote Sensing VI, (18 November 1998); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.331316

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