A novel CCD for application in high-frame rate geostationary space-based imaging

摘要

The Geostationary Lightning Mapper (GLM) instrument selected to fly on the National Oceanic and AtmosphericAdministration (NOAA) GOES-R Series environmental satellites has very unique requirements as compared to animaging array. GLM's requirements to monitor lightning on a continental scale will provide new insight into theformation, distribution, morphology and evolution of storms.A 500 frame per second backside illuminated frame transfer CCD imager (STA3900A) with variable pixel size hasbeen developed to meet these requirements. A variable pixel architecture provides a near uniform mapping of the curvedsurface of the earth, while 56 outputs running at 20 MHz yield greater than a 1.1 Gigapixel per second data rate with lowRMS noise and high MTF. This paper will provide detailed information on design trades required. We will report CCDread noise, dark current, full well capacity, and quantum efficiency (QE).© (2012) COPYRIGHT Society of Photo-Optical Instrumentation Engineers (SPIE). Downloading of the abstract is permitted for personal use only.