GeoXO Hyperspectral Infrared Sounder (GXS) instrument architecture, performance, and calibration

BAE Systems Inc. has developed a GeoXO Hyperspectral Infrared Sounder (GXS) instrument based on decades of experience delivering high performance spectral sensors for a variety of customers, environments, and applications. The GXS instrument will provide calibrated high spectral resolution soundings from the central GeoXO satellite at an unprecedented temporal collection rate to enable significant advances to numerical weather prediction models. This presentation will address instrument architecture, enabling technologies, predicted performance, concept of operations (CONOPS), and calibration and characterization plans related to the fielding of this new benchmark in geostationary hyperspectral infrared sounding instrumentation.