Design And Performance Of The Stratospheric Aerosol And Gas Experiment II (SAGE II) Instrument

N. H. Zaun; L. E. Mauldin III; M. P. McCormick

doi:10.1117/12.936376

19 January 1984 Design And Performance Of The Stratospheric Aerosol And Gas Experiment II (SAGE II) Instrument

N. H. Zaun, L. E. Mauldin III, M. P. McCormick

Proceedings Volume 0430, Infrared Technology IX; (1984) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.936376
Event: 27th Annual Technical Symposium, 1983, San Diego, United States

Abstract

Design and performance data are presented for the Stratospheric Aerosol and Gas Experi-ment II (SAGE II) instrument, which has been developed for the Earth Radiation Budget Satellite (ERBS). SAGE II is designed to monitor globally the vertical distribution of strato-spheric aerosols, ozone, water vapor and nitrogen dioxide by measuring the extinction of solar radiation through the earth's atmosphere during the ERBS observatory solar occultations. Solar radiation is reflected from a flat scanning mirror into a Cassegrain type telescope, which forms a solar image on the entrance slit of a grating spectrometer. The SAGE II instantaneous-field-of-view (IFOV) is scanned along the vertical solar diameter by the elevation scan mirror. The entire optical system is contained within an azimuth gimbal which tracks the solar radiometric centroid during the data event. This spectrometer, with help from three interference filters, isolates seven spectral wavelengths ranging from 0.385 micrometers to 1.02 micrometers. All seven channels use silicon photodiode detectors oper-ated in the photovoltaic mode. Detector outputs are multiplexed into a serial data stream for readout by the ERBS telemetry system. Each output is sampled 64 times per second and digitized to 12 bit resolution. SAGE II is a third generation instrument following the highly successful SAM II and SAGE programs.

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N. H. Zaun, L. E. Mauldin III, and M. P. McCormick "Design And Performance Of The Stratospheric Aerosol And Gas Experiment II (SAGE II) Instrument", Proc. SPIE 0430, Infrared Technology IX, (19 January 1984); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.936376

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