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Mission of the project
Mission of the project
Perform engineering and scientific tasks in order to support the Pandonia Global Network (PGN) for Copernicus Mission Calibration and Validation activities.
The pressing issues of air quality and global warming are fundamentally determined by the amount of aerosols, trace and greenhouse gases in the atmosphere. Therefore their abundances are measured from ground- and space-based platforms.
Several existing and upcoming EO satellite missions retrieve the column amount of atmospheric species such as O3, NO2, SO2, HCHO, CO2, CH4, H2O, etc. Several of them are EUMETSAT-operated Copernicus atmospheric composition missions to be supported within this project.
In order to ensure the quality of these satellite products, they need to be validated against independent measurements. The backbone of satellite validation efforts is in general data coming from well-maintained ground-based remote sensing networks such as the Pandonia Global Network (PGN) for reactive trace gas retrievals.
The proposed “Copernicus Support to the Pandonia Global Network - Algorithm, Monitoring & Analysis” or short “PanAMA” is based on three activities:
L1 and Instrument Tasks
Improving instrument performance, data quality, and reliability through algorithm development and hardware optimization.
L2 and Validation Tasks
Developing retrieval algorithms and strategies to enhance data accuracy and support the validation of satellite-derived atmospheric composition products.
Network Tasks
Advancing the operational capabilities of the PGN network, including calibration procedures, quality assurance, and data processing activities.
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