SCIAMACHY

SCIAMACHY, Nadir and Limb scanning.

SCIAMACHY (SCanning Imaging Absorption SpectroMeter for Atmospheric CHartographY; Greek: σκιαμαχεί: analogously: "Fighting shadows") was one of ten instruments aboard of ESA's ENVIronmental SATellite, ENVISAT. It was a satellite spectrometer designed to measure sunlight, transmitted, reflected and scattered by the Earth's atmosphere or surface in the ultraviolet, visible and near infrared wavelength region (240 nm - 2380 nm) at moderate spectral resolution (0.2 nm - 1.5 nm).[1] SCIAMACHY was built by Netherlands and Germany at TNO/TPD, SRON and Dutch Space.[2]

  1. ^ Bovensmann, H.; Burrows, J. P.; Buchwitz, M.; Frerick, J.; Noël, S.; Rozanov, V. V.; Chance, K. V.; Goede, A. P. H. (1999). "SCIAMACHY: Mission Objectives and Measurement Modes". Journal of the Atmospheric Sciences. 56 (2): 127–150. Bibcode:1999JAtS...56..127B. CiteSeerX 10.1.1.517.1324. doi:10.1175/1520-0469(1999)056<0127:SMOAMM>2.0.CO;2.
  2. ^ "I - Sciamachy".