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Title: UVSQ-SAT, a pathfinder cubesat mission for observing essential climate variables
Authors: Meftah, Mustapha
Damé, Luc
Keckhut, Philippe
Bekki, Slimane
Sarkissian, Alain
Hauchecorne, Alain
Bertran, Emmanuel
Carta, Jean-Paul
Rogers, David
Abbaki, Sadok
Dufour, Christophe
Gilbert, Pierre
Lapauw, Laurent
Vieau, André-Jean
Arrateig, Xavier
Muscat, Nicolas
Bove, Philippe
Sandana, Éric
Teherani, Ferechteh
Li, Tong
Pradel, Gilbert
Mahé, Michel
Mercier, Christophe
Paskeviciute, Agne
Segura, Kevin
Alba, Alicia Berciano
Aboulila, Ahmed
Chang, Loren
Chandran, Amal
Dahoo, Pierre-Richard
Bui, Alain
Keywords: Engineering::Electrical and electronic engineering
Issue Date: 2019
Source: Meftah, M., Damé, L., Keckhut, P., Bekki, S., Sarkissian, A., Hauchecorne, A., … Bui, A. (2019). UVSQ-SAT, a Pathfinder CubeSat Mission for Observing Essential Climate Variables. Remote Sensing, 12(1), 92-. doi:10.3390/rs12010092
Journal: Remote Sensing
Abstract: The UltraViolet and infrared Sensors at high Quantum efficiency onboard a small SATellite (UVSQ-SAT) mission aims to demonstrate pioneering technologies for broadband measurement of the Earth’s radiation budget (ERB) and solar spectral irradiance (SSI) in the Herzberg continuum (200–242 nm) using high quantum efficiency ultraviolet and infrared sensors. This research and innovation mission has been initiated by the University of Versailles Saint-Quentin-en-Yvelines (UVSQ) with the support of the International Satellite Program in Research and Education (INSPIRE). The motivation of the UVSQ-SAT mission is to experiment miniaturized remote sensing sensors that could be used in the multi-point observation of Essential Climate Variables (ECV) by a small satellite constellation. UVSQ-SAT represents the first step in this ambitious satellite constellation project which is currently under development under the responsibility of the Laboratory Atmospheres, Environments, Space Observations (LATMOS), with the UVSQ-SAT CubeSat launch planned for 2020/2021. The UVSQ-SAT scientific payload consists of twelve miniaturized thermopile-based radiation sensors for monitoring incoming solar radiation and outgoing terrestrial radiation, four photodiodes that benefit from the intrinsic advantages of Ga 2 O 3 alloy-based sensors made by pulsed laser deposition for measuring solar UV spectral irradiance, and a new three-axis accelerometer/gyroscope/compass for satellite attitude estimation. We present here the scientific objectives of the UVSQ-SAT mission along the concepts and properties of the CubeSat platform and its payload. We also present the results of a numerical simulation study on the spatial reconstruction of the Earth’s radiation budget, on a geographical grid of 1 ° × 1 ° degree latitude-longitude, that could be achieved with UVSQ-SAT for different observation periods.
URI: https://hdl.handle.net/10356/146243
ISSN: 2072-4292
DOI: 10.3390/rs12010092
Schools: School of Electrical and Electronic Engineering 
Rights: © 2019 The Authors. Licensee MDPI, Basel, Switzerland. This article is an open accessarticle distributed under the terms and conditions of the Creative Commons Attribution(CC BY) license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/).
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