Customer: Centre National d’Etudes Spatiales (CNES)

Programme: DTQTIS

Supply Chain: CNES > CS Group SPACE

Context

CS Group responsabilities for Polarization calibration on natural sites are as follows:

• Study

The features are as follows:

• Polarized signal sensitivity analysis :
• Estimation of dissemination orders contributing to the polarized signal to the TOA
• Influence of the aerosol model
• Influence of surface properties (BRDF, refraction index)
• Influence of aiming and AOT geometry
• Parametric analysis Representativeness of BPDF models on desert sites :
• Comparison of measurements and models for different BPDF models
• Analysis of the Inversion results of the Maignan model weighting coefficient

Project implementation

The project objectives are as follows:

• Characterize the surface polarization of desert sites (BPDF) in order to make an absolute calibration on polarized bands (Mission 3MI)

The processes for carrying out the project are:

• Studies, simulations, advancement meetings, report

Technical characteristics

The solution key points are as follows:

• Incommensurate

The main technologies used in this project are:

Domain	Technology(ies)
Programming language(s)	IDL, KSH
Main COTS library(ies)	SOS-ABS, MUSCLE