OPTICAL DESIGN OF A NOVEL WIDE-FIELDOF-VIEW SPECTROMETER FOR CLIMATE MONITORING

Samenvatting

Climate change is one of the biggest challenges facing humanity this century. In
collaboration with the Royal Meteorological Institute (RMI) of Belgium, this thesis proposes a
novel optical design of a space-based spectrometer system that is able to monitor the most
prominent GHG’s. A 2-mirror telescope with a 120-degree FOV and in addition, a near-infrared
(NIR) broadband spectrometer design with a spectral resolution of 1.24 nm, spectral
range of 600 nm and an F# of 3.62 are achieved. The combines imaging system reaches a
broadband band spectral coverage over a FOV of 120 degrees with a resolution at the
ground of 31 km x 33.2 km.

Datum prijs	2021
Originele taal	English