RAIDS (Remote Atmospheric and Ionospheric Detection System): An Orbiting Observatory for Ionospheric Remote Sensing from Space.

摘要

A NOAA TIROS satellite currently scheduled to be launched in mid 1990 will contain a payload of optical sensors for ionospheric remote sensing known as RAIDS (Remote Atmospheric and Ionospheric Detection System). The RAIDS experiment consists of eight separate optical instruments which have a combined spectral coverage of 500 - 8700 A. Seven of the instruments will be mounted to a scan platform and will mechanically scan the earth's limb from 75 - 750 km, while the eighth obtains height images without being scanned. These instruments will measure naturally occurring airglow emissions from the upper atmosphere and ionosphere and will provide altitude profiles of ion and neutral atmospheric constituents along the satellite track on both the day and night side of the earth. The purpose of the RAIDS experiment is to demonstrate a technique for ionospheric remote sensing from space and to produce a global data base of ionospheric and neutral atmospheric composition. (RRH)