Download or read book Noaa-9 Earth Radiation Budget Experiment (Erbe) Scanner Offsets Determination written by National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2018-07-09 with total page 32 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Earth Radiation Budget Experiment (ERBE) instruments are designed to measure the components of the radiative exchange between the Sun, Earth and space. ERBE is comprised of three spacecraft, each carrying a nearly identical set of radiometers: a three-channel narrow-field-of-view scanner, a two-channel wide-field-of-view (limb-to-limb) non-scanning radiometer, a two-channel medium field-of view (1000 km) non-scanning radiometer, and a solar monitor. Ground testing showed the scanners to be susceptible to self-generated and externally generated electromagnetic noise. This paper describes the pre-launch corrective measures taken and the post-launch corrections to the NOAA-9 scanner data. The NOAA-9 scanner has met the mission objectives in accuracy and precision, in part because of the pre-launch reductions of and post-launch data corrections for the electromagnetic noise. Avis, Lee M. and Paden, Jack and Lee, Robert B., III and Pandey, Dhirendra K. and Stassi, Joseph C. and Wilson, Robert S. and Tolson, Carol J. and Bolden, William C. Langley Research Center RTOP 665-45-20-01...