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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/). | Fulltext Permission: | open | Fulltext Availability: | With Fulltext |
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