HR: 09:30h
AN: SM51C-07    [Abstracts]
TI: Calibration/Validation of the SSUSI Instrument on DMSP F16: Overview & Nightside Analysis
AU: * Straus, P R
EM: paul.straus@aero.org
AF: The Aerospace Corporation, PO Box 92957, Los Angeles, CA 90009
AU: Paxton, L J
EM: larry.paxton@jhuapl.edu
AF: Johns-Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory, 11100 Johns Hopkins Road , Laurel, MD 20723
AU: DeMajistre, R
EM: Bob.DeMajistre@jhuapl.edu
AF: Johns-Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory, 11100 Johns Hopkins Road , Laurel, MD 20723
AU: Morrison, D
EM: daniel.morrison@jhuapl.edu
AF: Johns-Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory, 11100 Johns Hopkins Road , Laurel, MD 20723
AB: The Special Sensor Ultraviolet Imager (SSUSI) is a far-ultraviolet spectrographic imager that will be flown on the DMSP F16-F20 satellites. SSUSI is the operational predecessor to the NPOESS AURORA instrument and is similar to the GUVI instrument on NASA's TIMED satellite. The first SSUSI instrument was launched on F16 in November 2003. During the year and a half following the F16 launch the Air Force conducted sensor calibration and data product validation studies for SSUSI. We provide an overview of the "Cal/Val" effort and report on the program's results in the area of nightside ionospheric remote sensing, where comparisons of UV-derived products to a variety of truth sensors (ionosondes, GPS occultation, incoherent scatter radars) were performed.
DE: 2415 Equatorial ionosphere
SC: SPA-Magnetospheric Physics [SM]
MN: Fall Meeting 2005