ERS-1 experimental payload package
Abstract
Proposals were received in response to an Announcement of Opportunity in April 1981. The proposals received were evaluated by two independent panels: a science panel appointed by the Earth Observation Advisory Committee and an Agency-internal technical panel. The five proposals that met all the evaluation criteria were the imaging lightning flash detector, the along-track scanning radiometer (ATSR), the precise range and range rate equipment (PRARE), the tropospheric and stratospheric wind and composition investigation, and the conical scan radiometer. The scientific evaluation panel preferred two alternative combinations: the PRARE with, if possible, a redefined and down-graded mini-imaging microwave radiometer, and the PRARE with the ASTR and, if possible, a nadir looking microwave sounder to provide water vapor correction in all-weather conditions.
- Publication:
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Paris International Astronautical Federation Congress
- Pub Date:
- September 1982
- Bibcode:
- 1982pari.iafcW....R
- Keywords:
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- Ers-1 (Esa Satellite);
- Instrument Packages;
- Remote Sensors;
- Satellite-Borne Instruments;
- Spaceborne Experiments;
- Experiment Design;
- Geodetic Surveys;
- Infrared Radiometers;
- Meteorological Instruments;
- Microwave Radiometers;
- Ocean Dynamics;
- Ocean Temperature;
- Radio Altimeters;
- Range Finders;
- Spacecraft Instrumentation