Prototyping for the Spectropolarimeter for Planetary EXploration (SPEX): Calibration and sky measurements

Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering

Volumn 8160, Issue , 2011, Pages

  Van Harten, Gerard ^a   Snik, Frans ^a   Rietjens, Jeroen H H ^b   Smit, J Martijn ^b   De Boer, Jozua ^a   Diamantopoulou, Renia ^a   Hasekamp, Otto P ^b   Stam, Daphne M ^b   Keller, Christoph U ^a   Laan, Erik C ^c   Verlaan, Ad L ^c   Vliegenthart, Willem A ^c   Ter Horst, Rik ^d   Navarro, Ramón ^d   Wielinga, Klaas ^e   Hannemann, Sandro ^f   Moon, Scott G ^f   Voors, Robert ^g  

^a UTRECHT UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^b SRON NETHERLANDS INSTITUTE FOR SPACE RESEARCH   (Netherlands)

^c TNO   (Netherlands)

^d ASTRON   (Netherlands)

^e Mecon Engineering BV   (Netherlands)

^f Cosine ^*  (Netherlands)

^g AIRBUS DEFENCE AND SPACE   (Germany)

Author keywords

aerosol; atmosphere; dust; Earth; Mars; planet; remote sensing; spectral modulation; spectropolarimetry

Indexed keywords

A-THERMAL; AERONET; AEROSOL MONITORING NETWORKS; BIREFRINGENT CRYSTALS; CALIBRATION TESTS; DEGREE OF LINEAR POLARIZATION; END-TO-END PERFORMANCE; FIELD OF VIEWS; GROUND BASED; HIGH-ACCURACY; IN-ORBIT; INTENSITY SPECTRUM; JUPITERS; LINEAR POLARIZATION; MARS; MICROPHYSICAL PROPERTY; MULTI-ANGLE; MULTIPLE-ORDER RETARDERS; OPTICAL THICKNESS; PASSIVE REMOTE SENSING; PLANETARY ATMOSPHERE; PLANETARY EXPLORATION; POLARIZATION MEASUREMENTS; POLARIZATION MODULATORS; POLARIZATION SPECTRA; POLARIZATION STATE; POLARIZING BEAM SPLITTERS; QUARTER WAVES; RETARDANCE; SINGLE SCATTERING; SINUSOIDAL MODULATION; SPECTRAL MODULATION; SPECTRAL POLARIZATION; SPECTROPOLARIMETERS; SPECTROPOLARIMETRY; SUN PHOTOMETERS; VERTICAL DISTRIBUTIONS;

ATMOSPHERIC AEROSOLS; CALIBRATION; EARTH (PLANET); INTERPLANETARY SPACECRAFT; MODULATION; OPTIMIZATION; REMOTE SENSING; SPECTROSCOPY;

POLARIZATION;

EID: 80053935950     PISSN: 0277786X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.893741     Document Type: Conference Paper

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