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Kategorie Textpublikation
Referenztyp Zeitschriften
DOI 10.1109/TGRS.2016.2621820
Titel (primär) The FLuorescence EXplorer mission concept—ESA’s Earth Explorer 8
Autor Drusch, M.; Moreno, J.; Del Bello, U.; Franco, R.; Goulas, Y.; Huth, A.; Kraft, S.; Middleton, E.M.; Miglietta, F.; Mohammed, G.; Nedbal, L.; Rascher, U.; Schüttemeyer, D.; Verhoef, W.
Quelle IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing
Erscheinungsjahr 2017
Department OESA
Band/Volume 55
Heft 3
Seite von 1273
Seite bis 1284
Sprache englisch
Keywords Temperature measurement, Fluorescence, Flexible printed circuits, Vegetation mapping, Spatial resolution, Photonics, Wavelength measurement ; remote sensing; spectrometry
UFZ Querschnittsthemen RU5;
Abstract In November 2015, the FLuorescence EXplorer (FLEX) was selected as the eighth Earth Explorer mission of the European Space Agency. The tandem mission concept will provide measurements at a spectral and spatial resolution enabling the retrieval and interpretation of the full chlorophyll fluorescence spectrum emitted by the terrestrial vegetation. This paper provides a mission concept overview of the scientific goals, the key objectives related to fluorescence, and the requirements guaranteeing the fitness for purpose of the resulting scientific data set. We present the mission design at the time of selection, i.e., at the end of project phase Phase A/B1, as developed by two independent industrial consortia. The mission concepts both rely on a single payload Fluorescence Imaging Spectrometer, covering the spectral range from 500 to 780 nm. In the oxygen absorption bands, its spectral resolution will be 0.3 nm with a spectral sampling interval of 0.1 nm. The swath width of the spectrometer is 150 km and the spatial resolution will be 300 × 300 m-2 . The satellite will fly in tandem with Sentinel-3 providing different and complementary measurements with a temporal collocation of 6 to 15 s. The FLEX launch is scheduled for 2022.
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Drusch, M., Moreno, J., Del Bello, U., Franco, R., Goulas, Y., Huth, A., Kraft, S., Middleton, E.M., Miglietta, F., Mohammed, G., Nedbal, L., Rascher, U., Schüttemeyer, D., Verhoef, W. (2017):
The FLuorescence EXplorer mission concept—ESA’s Earth Explorer 8
IEEE Trans. Geosci. Remote Sensing 55 (3), 1273 - 1284 10.1109/TGRS.2016.2621820