NSO and NL EO contributions

Joost Carpay, Netherlands Space Office (NSO)CEOS Plenary, 8/9-11-11

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NSO (Netherlands Space Office)• Founded in 2009, 28 FTE’s, “fusion” of various (aero)space

institutes, ministries• Part of government; the NL government focal point for space

• Steering committee of 3 ministries and Foundation for Scientific Research NWO

• Responsible for execution of NL Space Policy• Representative in ESA PBs• Representative in GEO and other international bodies• Representative to other Space Agencies• Management of national programs (tech. development, TROPOMI)

• NL Policy: Focus on key strength, in int’l cooperation, use(r) driven• Planet Earth (Earth Observation), Science & Exploration, Space

Technology, and Daily Life (services to the citizens)

• Strategy: redirection from technology driven to user/market drive

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SCIAMACHY

• Atmospheric Chemistry instrument, with Germany, Belgium and ESA

• SCIA on Envisat launched in 2002• SCIA: limb and nadir scanning imaging spectrometer

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OMI: Imaging spectrometer

• Nadir, wide-angle UV-Vis spectrometer, using 2D detector (no scanning), with Finland, NASA

• Launched in 2004 on EOS-AURA• Ozone monitoring, pollution, etc.

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13 km

(2 sec flight))2600 km

12 km/24 km (binned & co-added)

flight direction» 7 km/sec

viewing angle± 57 deg

2-dimensional CCD

wavelength ~ 780 pixels

swath~ 580 pixels

TROPOMI• OMI concept, with smaller pixels and SWIR channel• Cooperation NL-ESA, Sentinel 5 precursor mission (GMES)• Provides SCIA, OMI data continuity• Focus on sensing the troposphere• Currently in transition Phase B-> Phase C/D

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Processing Centresat KNMI (Netherlands Meteorological Institute)• Generates and distributes some OMI products (also done from US)• Essential for in-orbit calibration of OMI• SCIAMACHY Data Centre distributes some SCIAMACHY data• Supports national and international exploitation of data

at TU Delft (Delft Technical University)• Processing and distribution of Radar altimetry dataUnder development• PPP infrastructure for data distribution to facilitate development of

commercial and government applications of EO data

Active contributor to GEO projects

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