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4 <strong>Final</strong><br />

<strong>Report</strong><br />

The achieved ground resolution & coverage are generally between threshold (T) and goal (G)<br />

requirements, with the following exceptions:<br />

• VNIR channels have a resolution (40 m & 80 m for marine) better than the G requirement<br />

• T requirement is not met in TIR for Fire Detection due to sensor size limitation. This is deemed<br />

acceptable because the MWIR band is actually used for fire area monitoring, whereas TIR<br />

bands are used to monitor fire temperature, for which resolution is not critical.<br />

Channel ID Center<br />

wavelength<br />

Bandwidth Focal planes<br />

(nm) (nm)<br />

UV1 318 10<br />

UV2 350 10<br />

VNIR1 412 10<br />

VNIR2 443 10 UV-blue<br />

VNIR3 490 10<br />

VNIR4 510 10<br />

VNIR5 555 10<br />

VNIR7 655 155 PAN<br />

VNIR6 620 10<br />

VNIR8a 665 10<br />

VNIR8b 665 10<br />

VNIR9 681 8<br />

VNIR10 709 10<br />

VNIR11<br />

VNIR12<br />

753<br />

779<br />

8<br />

15<br />

Red-NIR<br />

VNIR13a 865 20<br />

VNIR13b 865 20<br />

VNIR14 885 10<br />

VNIR15 900 10<br />

VNIR16 1040 40<br />

SWIR 1375 50<br />

MWIRa 3700 390 SWIR MWIR<br />

MWIRb 3700 390<br />

TIR1a 10850 900<br />

TIR1b<br />

TIR2a<br />

10850<br />

12000<br />

900<br />

1000<br />

TIR<br />

TIR2b 12000 1000<br />

Mission<br />

Disaster<br />

Monitoring<br />

Fire<br />

Monitoring<br />

Marine<br />

Applications<br />

Figure 4.3-1: Spectral channels (optional channels are in blue) & imaging capability summary<br />

4.3.2 Radiometric & image quality performances<br />

Ground Pixel Size at<br />

52°N [m]<br />

Image ground<br />

coverage [square, km]<br />

T G T G<br />

Disaster monitoring 100 10 100 200<br />

Fire monitoring 250 100 100 200<br />

Marine applications 1000 100 100 500<br />

Ground resolution & coverage requirements<br />

Channels<br />

Number of<br />

channels<br />

GSD (m) at<br />

52.5°N<br />

FOV (km)<br />

PAN 1 21.0 157x157<br />

UV-blue<br />

Red-NIR<br />

4<br />

8<br />

40<br />

40<br />

300x300<br />

Red-NIR 2 40<br />

SW/MW IR 2 300 300x300<br />

TIR 2 750<br />

UV-blue 7 80<br />

Red-NIR<br />

SW/MW IR<br />

10<br />

2<br />

80<br />

300<br />

300x300<br />

TIR 2 750<br />

4.3.2.1 Disaster Monitoring<br />

The high resolution PAN channel drives telescope diameter (set to 1.5 m) & pointing stability<br />

requirements. The acquisition is performed in 4 successive images, all downloaded for on-ground<br />

processing for SNR & MTF recovery. Indeed, the Nyquist MTF requirement for the raw images is<br />

relaxed from 10% to 5% to allow best resolution. The required SNR is increased in the same ratio to<br />

keep constant the SNRxMTF figure of merit to account for SNR degradation in MTF recovery by<br />

ground processing.<br />

Thanks to that, a Ground Sampling Distance (GSD) as good as 10.5 m (nadir), i.e. 21 m at 52.5 N is<br />

achieved, close to Goal requirement (10 m) for Disaster Monitoring. This resolution is achieved with<br />

LoS pointing stability requirements of 5 µrad/s and 0.15 µrad p-p, well within the capability of the<br />

selected AOCS design based on magnetic reaction wheels. As shown in §4.4, selecting conventional<br />

ball bearing wheels mounted on isolators (jitter increased 0.25 µrad p-p) has however a modest<br />

impact, with nadir GSD degraded to 11.5 m (23 m at 52.5 N).<br />

The same CMOS detectors are used for all UV-VNIR focal planes to reduce development cost & risks.<br />

The GSD of the UV-blue & Red-NIR channels is then obtained from the PAN GSD in the ratio of the<br />

Page 4-30 Doc. No: GOC-ASG-RP-002<br />

Issue: 2<br />

Astrium GmbH Date: 13.05.2009

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