The Cross-track Infrared Sounder (CrIS): a sensor for operational meteorological remote sensing

Author

Bloom, Hal J.

Author_Institution

NPOESS Integrated Program Office, Silver Spring, MD, USA

Volume

3

fYear

2001

fDate

2001

Firstpage

1341

Abstract

The Cross-track Infrared Sounder (CrIS) is one of the key instruments under development for the National Polar-orbiting Operational Environmental Satellite System (NPOESS) program. CrIS is an interferometric sounding sensor which measures upwelling Earth radiation at very high spectral resolution and uses these data combined with data from passive microwave instrumentation to construct vertical profiles of atmospheric temperature and moisture. This paper focusses on the instrument development status of the CrIS for a flight of opportunity on the NPOESS Preparatory Project (NPP) in late 2005

Keywords

atmospheric measuring apparatus; atmospheric radiation; atmospheric temperature; infrared detectors; remote sensing; 650 to 2700 cm^-1; CrIS; Cross-track Infrared Sounder; NPOESS Preparatory Project; NPOESS program; National Polar-orbiting Operational Environmental Satellite System; atmospheric moisture; atmospheric temperature; interferometric sounding sensor; operational meteorological remote sensing; passive microwave instrumentation; upwelling Earth radiation; vertical profiles; Acoustic sensors; Atmospheric measurements; Earth; Infrared sensors; Instruments; Microwave measurements; Microwave sensors; Moisture measurement; Satellites; Temperature sensors;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Geoscience and Remote Sensing Symposium, 2001. IGARSS '01. IEEE 2001 International

Conference_Location

Sydney, NSW

Print_ISBN

0-7803-7031-7

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/IGARSS.2001.976838

Filename

976838