Title :
Unfolding JASON-2/ICARE-NG High-Energy Particles Measurements Using a Singular Value Decomposition Approach
Author :
Maget, V. ; Bourdarie, S. ; Lazaro, D. ; Boscher, D. ; Rolland, G. ; Ecoffet, R. ; Lorfèvre, E.
Author_Institution :
French Aerosp. Lab., ONERA, Toulouse, France
Abstract :
This paper presents an enhanced approach to extract as much as possible information from raw measurements of a given solid-state detector. Here we focus on the benefits of a singular value decomposition approach applied to the special case of the CNES-JASON 2 mission. It allows us to extract more information from the sensor than a more traditional technique. Refined differential fluxes instead of only coarse integral and differential ones are now obtained and to get an improved resolution for both protons (40-500 MeV) and electrons (825 keV to 8 MeV). Finally, thanks to the combination of all the information embedded into the different response functions of the ICARE-NG instrument, we are now able to: 1) estimate the uncertainty of our measurements, and 2) automatically filter contamination from both proton and electron in restored fluxes channels.
Keywords :
atmospheric measuring apparatus; electrons; protons; radiation belts; singular value decomposition; solid-state nuclear track detectors; ICARE-NG instrument response function; JASON-2-ICARE-NG high-energy particle measurement unfolding; automatically filter contamination; coarse differential flux; coarse integral flux; differential flux; improved electron resolution; improved proton resolution; measurement uncertainty estimation; restored flux channel; sensor information; singular value decomposition approach; solid-state detector raw measurement; special CNES-JASON 2 mission case; traditional technique; Atmospheric measurements; Detectors; Particle measurements; Pollution measurement; Protons; Sensitivity; Singular value decomposition; Matrix inversion; particle measurements; radiation belts; radiation detectors; singular value decomposition (SVD); unfolding;
Journal_Title :
Nuclear Science, IEEE Transactions on
DOI :
10.1109/TNS.2014.2300161