One-year operation of TANSO-FTS on GOSAT and follow-on mission feasibility

Kei Shiomi; Masakatsu Nakajima; Akihiko Kuze; Toshiaki Takeshima; Shuji Kawakami; Hiroshi Suto

doi:10.1117/12.2309174

20 November 2017 One-year operation of TANSO-FTS on GOSAT and follow-on mission feasibility

Kei Shiomi, Masakatsu Nakajima, Akihiko Kuze, Toshiaki Takeshima, Shuji Kawakami, Hiroshi Suto

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Proceedings Volume 10565, International Conference on Space Optics — ICSO 2010; 105651K (2017) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2309174
Event: International Conference on Space Optics—ICSO 2010, 2010, Rhodes Island, Greece

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The Greenhouse gases Observing SATellite (GOSAT) was developed to contribute to monitoring of carbon dioxide and methane from space [1]. The mission objectives are global greenhouse gas measurements from space with precision of 1 % for CO₂ and 2 % for CH₄ in seasonal mean. The GOSAT carries Thermal And Near infrared Sensor for carbon Observation (TANSO) for precise measurement of greenhouse gases. Main instrument is Fourier Transfer Spectrometer (TANSO-FTS) to observe atmospheric absorption spectra of CO₂ and CH₄ with high spectral resolution of 0.2 cm^-1, broad wavelength coverage of 0.76 − 14.3 microns, wide swath of 790 km and frequent revisit of 3 days. Cloud and Aerosol Imager (TANSO-CAI) is simultaneously on board for cloud detection and correction of optical thin cirrus and aerosol interference within the FTS instantaneous field of view. The GOSAT satellite was launched by H2A-15 rocket on January 23, 2009. The Level 1B products of calibrated spectra were released from September 2009 in public. The Level 2 products of CO₂ and CH₄ column densities were released from February 2010 [2]. The normal observation data is acquired over one year regularly from April 2009. The mission lifetime is 5 years.

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Kei Shiomi, Masakatsu Nakajima, Akihiko Kuze, Toshiaki Takeshima, Shuji Kawakami, and Hiroshi Suto "One-year operation of TANSO-FTS on GOSAT and follow-on mission feasibility", Proc. SPIE 10565, International Conference on Space Optics — ICSO 2010, 105651K (20 November 2017); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2309174

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