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UP: Fachverband Umweltphysik

UP 2: Methoden - Fernerkundung

UP 2.7: Invited Talk

Tuesday, March 18, 2014, 13:15–13:45, MAG 100

Observing the Anthropocene from Space: from SCIAMACHY to GeoSCIA/Copernicus Sentinel 4, Sentinel 5, CarbonSat and SCIA-ISS — •John P. Burrows — Institute of Environmental Physics/Institute of Remote Sensing IUP/IFE University of Bremen - FB1 Postfach 330440 28334 Bremen Germany

From the beginning of the Neolithic revolution around 10000 BC and 1800 A.D., the earth*s human population is estimated to have risen from several million nomadic hunter gathers to 1 Billion rural settlement and city dwellers. This development is dwarfed by the impact of the industrial revolution over the past two centuries. There are no over 7 Billion people on earth with over half living in cities and urban areas, e.g. there are ~ 3 billion more citizens than when the author was born and 2 million more than when the project SCIAMACHY (SCanning Imaging and Absorption spectroMeter for Atmospheric ChartographY) was proposed!

The remote sounding of the atmosphere from instrumentation on satellite platforms provides a unique opportunity to retrieve regional and global observations of key trace atmospheric constituents (gases, aerosol and clouds) and surface parameters (ocean colour, ice extent, flora etc.). This talk describes results from the SCIAMACHY project and its spin offs, GOME (originally SCIA-mini - Global Ozone Monitoring Experiment), GOME-2, and the planning for their successors ESA Sentinel 4 (originally GeoSCIA), Sentinel 5, CarbonSat and SCIA-ISS.