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GHGSat cloud and aerosol instrument
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Auxiliary cloud and aerosol payload carried with GHGSat greenhouse-gas imaging satellites to support retrieval screening.
The GHGSat cloud and aerosol instrument is an auxiliary visible and near-infrared payload used with GHGSat greenhouse-gas imaging satellites to identify cloud and aerosol contamination in the spectrometer field of view.[1][2] It supports trace-gas retrieval quality control by screening scenes before methane or carbon-dioxide plume interpretation, rather than serving as the primary greenhouse-gas spectrometer.[1] The instrument covers 400-1000 nm with 1.9 nm spectral resolution.[1] Its optical layout uses a diffraction grating to disperse incoming light onto detector pixel rows corresponding to constituent bands, giving the retrieval chain a colocated visible/NIR context channel for cloud and aerosol discrimination.[1] For buyers evaluating GHGSat-derived emissions products, the important role is scene qualification: the payload helps decide whether a target view is suitable for plume retrieval, attribution, and quality-screened facility analysis.[1]
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- [1]WMO OSCAR instrument record: C&A Cloud and Aerosol Instrumentagency doc2026-06-16
- [2]WMO OSCAR satellite record: GHGSatagency doc2026-06-16
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GHGSat cloud and aerosol instrument. EO-Atlas, SpectraWorks B.V. https://eo-atlas.org/products/sensor/ghgsat-cloud-aerosol (CC BY 4.0)
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@misc{eoatlas:products:sensor:ghgsat-cloud-aerosol,
title = {GHGSat cloud and aerosol instrument},
author = {{EO-Atlas}},
publisher = {SpectraWorks B.V.},
note = {CC BY 4.0},
url = {https://eo-atlas.org/products/sensor/ghgsat-cloud-aerosol}
}