ALISEO on MIOSat: An Aerospace imaging interferometer for Earth Observation

Author

Barducci, Alessandro ; Castagnoli, Francesco ; Castellini, Guido ; Guzzi, Donatella ; Marcoionni, Paolo ; Pippi, Ivan

Author_Institution

IFAC, CNR, Sesto Fiorentino, Italy

Volume

2

fYear

2009

fDate

12-17 July 2009

Abstract

In this paper we describe a new instrument named ALISEO (Aerospace Leap-frog Imaging Stationary Interferometer for Earth Observation), which belongs to the class of the Â¿stationary interferometersÂ¿. ALISEO has been selected as the main payload for a novel Italian Space Agency (ASI) optical mission based on a micro-satellite (MIOSat) with steering capability. The mission is constituted by a micro-satellite equipped with advanced payloads, among which there are an extensible telescope, a MEMS Mach-Zehnder non-imaging interferometer, and ALISEO. MIOSat is expected to provide the scientific community with the technological demonstration of this new remote sensing technology.

Keywords

Mach-Zehnder interferometers; artificial satellites; geophysical equipment; micromechanical devices; remote sensing; ALISEO; ASI optical mission; Aerospace Leap-frog Imaging Stationary Interferometer for Earth Observation; Earth observation; Italian Space Agency optical mission; MEMS Mach-Zehnder nonimaging interferometer; MIOSat; aerospace imaging interferometer; microsatellite; stationary interferometers; Earth; Instruments; Optical imaging; Optical interferometry; Optical sensors; Payloads; Satellite ground stations; Space missions; Space technology; Telescopes; Fourier transform imaging spectrometers; Optical calibration procedure; Remote sensing; Sagnac interferometer;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Geoscience and Remote Sensing Symposium,2009 IEEE International,IGARSS 2009

Conference_Location

Cape Town

Print_ISBN

978-1-4244-3394-0

Electronic_ISBN

978-1-4244-3395-7

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/IGARSS.2009.5418117

Filename

5418117