TROPOMI on ESA’s Sentinel 5p ready for launch and use

Johan de Vries; Robert Voors; Barend Ording; Jos Dingjan; Pepijn Veefkind; Antje Ludewig; Quintus Kleipool; Ruud Hoogeveen; Ilse Aben

doi:10.1117/12.2240839

12 August 2016 TROPOMI on ESA’s Sentinel 5p ready for launch and use

Johan de Vries, Robert Voors, Barend Ording, Jos Dingjan, Pepijn Veefkind, Antje Ludewig, Quintus Kleipool, Ruud Hoogeveen, Ilse Aben

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Proceedings Volume 9688, Fourth International Conference on Remote Sensing and Geoinformation of the Environment (RSCy2016); 96880B (2016) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2240839
Event: Fourth International Conference on Remote Sensing and Geoinformation of the Environment, 2016, Paphos, Cyprus

Abstract

TROPOMI is the single instrument on ESA’s Sentinel 5 precursor satellite to be launched in October 2016. TROPOMI will measure the atmospheric constituents absorbing in the UV-SWIR wavelength range, being O3, NO2, SO2, CH4, CO, CH2O, and aerosol properties. TROPOMI is a sun back-scatter instrument in the line of SCIAMACHY and OMI with 4 spectrometer bands and a spectral resolution of 0.25 – 0.5 nm. Following the earlier sensors, firstly the spatial resolution is improved by a factor 6 (OMI) to 7 x 7 km2 and at the same time the sensitivity by an order of magnitude.

The paper discusses the instrument performances as acquired from on-ground performance / calibration measurements. For the calibration an extremely condensed measurement campaign of 4 months 24/7 measurements was performed with virtually no slack and still gathering all of the data necessary from on-ground measurements. Given the fact that the trace gas signals and their variation in the measured spectra can be quite small, calibration is crucial to get accurate results and this illustrates that TROPOMI is a highly success driven and efficient programme.

TROPOMI / Sentinel-5p bridges the data streams from on one hand OMI and SCIAMACHY and on the other hand the future Sentinel-5. It is the first of a series of satellites from the Copernicus programme devoted to air quality and will soon be ready for use.

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Johan de Vries, Robert Voors, Barend Ording, Jos Dingjan, Pepijn Veefkind, Antje Ludewig, Quintus Kleipool, Ruud Hoogeveen, and Ilse Aben "TROPOMI on ESA’s Sentinel 5p ready for launch and use", Proc. SPIE 9688, Fourth International Conference on Remote Sensing and Geoinformation of the Environment (RSCy2016), 96880B (12 August 2016); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2240839

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