TROPOMI SENSOR
Some information:
- Characteristics
- Type: passive grating imaging spectrometer
- Configuration: Push broom staring (non-scanning) in nadir viewing
- Swath width: 2,600 km
- Spatial sampling: 7×7 km2
- Spectral: 4 spectrometers, each electronically split in two bands (2 in UV, 2 in VIS, 2 in NIR, 2 in SWIR)
- Radiometric accuracy (absolute): 1.6% (SWIR) to 1.9% (UV) of the measured earth spectral reflectance.
- Overall mass: 204.3 kg not including ICU (16.7 kg) that is integrated on the platform, separated from the instrument.
- Dimensions: 1.40 x 0.65 x 0.75 m
- Design lifetime: 7 years
- Average power consumption: 155 W
Generated data volume: 139 Gbits per full orbit.
SENTINEL 5P PRODUCTS OF INTEREST
- Absorbing Aerosol Index
- Indicates the presence of elevated layers of aerosols with significant absorption.
- Detects
- Desert dust
- Biomass burning
- Volcanic ash plumes.
- May be derived for clear and partly cloudy ground pixels