6th Annual Symposium on Future National Operational Environmental Satellite Systems-NPOESS and GOES-R

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OMPS Sensor Performance and Algorithm Description

Scott Farrow, Northrop Grumman Aerospace Systems, Redondo Beach, CA; and B. Sen, M. Novicki, M. Branham, and B. Baker

The Ozone Mapping and Profiler Suite (OMPS), built by Ball Aerospace, is the next-generation U.S. ozone monitoring sensor suite, designed and built for the National Polar-orbiting Operational Environmental Satellite System (NPOESS), under contract to the Integrated Program Office, administered by the Department of Defense (DoD), National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), and National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) under contract to Northrop Grumman. The first flight of an OMPS is scheduled for early 2011 on the NPOESS Preparatory Project (NPP) satellite. The OMPS sensor data will be used to generate the calibrated sensor data and environmental data record (EDR) products.

The final OMPS sensor performance and algorithms for NPP will be presented, now that the FM1 flight sensor suite has completed sell off and is integrated on the NPP spacecraft. Challenges requiring future development, and during intensive calibration/validation on orbit will be described. Also, an overview of the sensor suite, the FM1 measurement performance, and details of the retrieval algorithms will be provided in this presentation.

Poster Session , Poster Session - NPOESS
Wednesday, 20 January 2010, 2:30 PM-4:00 PM

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