Sentinel-4: the geostationary component of the GMES atmosphere monitoring missions

G. Bazalgette Courrèges-Lacoste; M. Arcioni; Y. Meijer; J.-L. Bézy; P. Bensi; J. Langen

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21 November 2017 Sentinel-4: the geostationary component of the GMES atmosphere monitoring missions

G. Bazalgette Courrèges-Lacoste, M. Arcioni, Y. Meijer, J.-L. Bézy, P. Bensi, J. Langen

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Proceedings Volume 10566, International Conference on Space Optics — ICSO 2008; 105661Y (2017) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2308287
Event: International Conference on Space Optics 2008, 2008, Toulouse, France

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The implementation of operational atmospheric composition monitoring missions is foreseen in the context of the Global Monitoring for Environment and Security (GMES) initiative. Sentinel-4 will address the geostationary observations and Sentinel-5 the low Earth orbit ones. The two missions are planned to be launched on-board Eumetsat’s Meteosat Third Generation (MTG) and Post-EPS satellites, respectively. This paper presents an overview of the GMES Sentinel- 4 mission, which has been assessed at Phase-0 level. It describes the key requirements and outlines the main aspects of the candidate implementation concepts available at completion of Phase-0. The paper will particularly focus on the observation mode, the estimated performance and the related technology developments.

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G. Bazalgette Courrèges-Lacoste, M. Arcioni, Y. Meijer, J.-L. Bézy, P. Bensi, and J. Langen "Sentinel-4: the geostationary component of the GMES atmosphere monitoring missions", Proc. SPIE 10566, International Conference on Space Optics — ICSO 2008, 105661Y (21 November 2017); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2308287

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