NPOESS VIIRS design process

Philip E. Ardanuy; Carl F. Schueler; Shawn W. Miller; Peter Merheim Kealy; Stephen A. Cota; Mike Haas; Carol Welsch

doi:10.1117/12.453461

18 January 2002 NPOESS VIIRS design process

Philip E. Ardanuy, Carl F. Schueler, Shawn W. Miller, Peter Merheim Kealy, Stephen A. Cota, Mike Haas, Carol Welsch

Proceedings Volume 4483, Earth Observing Systems VI; (2002) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.453461
Event: International Symposium on Optical Science and Technology, 2001, San Diego, CA, United States

Abstract

This paper presents an overview of the Visible and Infrared Imaging Radiometer Suite (VIIRS) design process that achieved exceptional competitive IPO ratings for system optimization, sensor system design, and systems engineering, integration and test (SEIT). A novel aspect of the competition was provision to the sensor competitors of a specification of geophysical measurement requirements called Environmental Data Records (EDRs), rather than a sensor hardware specification. The contractors were required to derive optimal VIIRS hardware specifications from the EDRs and Raytheon's process is the subject of this paper. VIIRS will become the next-generation United States polar-orbiting Operational Environmental Satellite System (MPOESS) Preparatory Project (NPP) spacecraft. Beginning in 2008, the NPOESS VIIRS instrument will be launched into 1370, 1730, and 2130 local-time ascending-node sun-synchronous polar orbits as the single operational source for dozens of civil and defense environmental and weather products, as well as climate research data. VIIRS will replace three different currently operating sensors: the Defense Meteorological Satellite Program (DMSP) Operational Line-scan System (OLS), the NOAA Polar-orbiting Operational Environmental Satellite (POES) Advanced Very High Resolution Radiometer (AVHRR), and the NASA Earth Observing System (EOS Terra and Aqua) MODerate-resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS). A critical VIIRS challenge was design optimization to differing requirements from the three user agencies (DoD, NOAA, and NASA) represented by the NPOESS Integrated Program Office.

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Philip E. Ardanuy, Carl F. Schueler, Shawn W. Miller, Peter Merheim Kealy, Stephen A. Cota, Mike Haas, and Carol Welsch "NPOESS VIIRS design process", Proc. SPIE 4483, Earth Observing Systems VI, (18 January 2002); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.453461

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