SOUNDER FO

MTSAT Follow-On  Sounder

Satellites

MTSAT-3 and follow-on

Status

Being defined - To be utilised from 2015 onward

Mission

Temperature/humidity sounding and wind profile derivation by tracking water vapour features

Instrument type

TBD - User requirement imply using a spectrometer. Feasibility not yet confirmed

Coverage/cycle

Full disk in 60 min. Limited areas in correspondingly shorter time intervals

Resolution (s.s.p.)

TBD

Resources

Mass: … kg - Power: … W - Data rate: … Mbps

Spectral range (cm-1)

Spectral range (µm)

Spectral resolution

Radiometric accuracy (NEΔT)

700 - 1210 cm-1

14.3 - 8.26 µm

0.625 cm-1

0.2-0.5 K @ 280 K

1600 - 2175 cm-1

6.25 – 4.6 µm

0.625 cm-1

0.2-0.8 K @ 280 K