Verification of pointing and antenna pattern knowledge of Superconducting Submillimeter-Wave Limb-Emission Sounder (SMILES)

Author

Suzuki, Makoto ; Ochiai, Satoshi ; Mitsuda, Chihiro ; Imai, Koji ; Manabe, Takeshi ; Kikuchi, Kenichi ; Nishibori, Toshiyuki ; Manago, Naohiro ; Iwata, Yoshitaka ; Sano, Takuki ; Shiotani, Masato

Author_Institution

Inst. of Space & Astronaut. Sci., Japan Aerosp. Exploration Agency, Sagamihara, Japan

fYear

2011

fDate

24-29 July 2011

Firstpage

3688

Lastpage

3691

Abstract

The Superconducting Submillimeter-Wave Limb-Emission Sounder (SMILES) observes 03 and other minor chemical species in the stratosphere and mesosphere. Limb observation of SMILES is sensitive to the quality of the tangent altitude retrieval. To obtain better retrieval result, knowledge of initial tangent height and antenna pattern should be as precise and accurate as possible. It was concluded that initial tangent height is calculated by using ISS attitude and mirror pointing angle, and ISS position. Antenna pattern assuming 6 points moving average was applied to the retrieval and showed reasonable results.

Keywords

antennas; artificial satellites; atmospheric composition; atmospheric measuring apparatus; atmospheric techniques; mesosphere; remote sensing; stratosphere; superconducting devices; ISS attitude; ISS position; SMILES; Superconducting Submillimeter Wave Limb Emission Sounder; antenna pattern knowledge verification; initial antenna pattern; initial tangent height; limb observations; mesosphere; minor chemical species; mirror pointing angle; pointing angle knowledge verification; stratosphere; tangent altitude retrieval; Antenna measurements; Antennas; Calibration; Instruments; Sensors; Systematics; Telemetry; International Space Station; Japanese Experiment Module; SMILES; acousto-optic spectrometer; atmospheric chemistry; pointing; stratospheric ozone; submillimeter wave; tangent height;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Geoscience and Remote Sensing Symposium (IGARSS), 2011 IEEE International

Conference_Location

Vancouver, BC

ISSN

2153-6996

Print_ISBN

978-1-4577-1003-2

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/IGARSS.2011.6050025

Filename

6050025