What is NASA doing?
As NASA develops its plan to develop instruments to meet the goals of this mission, there are some objectives NASA is looking to meet. Carbon monoxide (CO) is a particularly important species to monitor; CO tracks the transport of polluted air, and it plays a key role in ozone processing. We will characterize the noise and spectral performance of a laboratory prototype of the SWIR (2.3 um) subsystem of an infrared gas filter correlation radiometer for geostationary CO measurements. Testing will verify the instrument model to guide evolving GEO-CAPE mission implementation decisions.
