Designing and Delivering an EO Instrument Concept Training Workshop

The CEOI held its second one-day training workshop on “Designing and Delivering an EO Instrument Concept” on Monday March 15th 2010 in London.

Presentations are available to view following the links below:

Introduction to CEOI Mick JohnsonCEOI
The real problems in developing Earth Observation InstrumentsChris ChalonerSEA
The Science Perspective - developing an instrument in CanadaPeter BernathUniversity of York
Some Aspects of Lidar Design and SizingNick LevequeAstrium
UV/Visible Spectroscopy TechniquesChris WhiteUniversity of Leicester
Microwave Radiometry for Oceans and Climate ScienceIan RobinsonUniversity of Southampton/NOC
Synthetic Aperture RadarHugh GiffithUCL
Accommodating Instruments on Small PlatformsPhil DaviesSSTL
Turning an Instrument Concept in RealityKim WardSTFC-RAL

Workshop Exercises

The Excel spreadsheets on Lidar and UV visible spectroscopy are provided as training material and are not intended to support ‘real’ instrument design – they contain many simplifications and approximations.  Refer to the ‘Lidar Techniques’ and ‘UV/visible Spectroscopy Techniques’ presentations for further information.  Please note that, although we have taken every care to ensure the integrity of these files, the download or use of these spreadsheets is at your own risk.

The keynote speakers were Dr. Chris Chaloner of SEA and Professor Peter Bernath of the University of York, who have experience of bringing together instrument concepts for ESA and national mission builds respectively.  In addition Kim Ward from STFC-RAL provided a presentation on implementing an EO instrument.  View the Agenda.

The workshop built on the highly successful first CEOI training workshop and was particularly timely given the call for Earth Explorer 8 missions. It included talks on the challenges of designing world class instruments and the trade-offs, presentations from experts on some key instrument techniques and working sessions where participants could become familiar with issues on designing instruments and ensuring that they could achieve best scientific and payload value. The workshop also provided an opportunity for displaying posters on emerging or new instrument concepts.

The workshop was aimed at both academia and industry including research scientists, technologists and potential instrument PIs, both those anticipating taking on such leadership roles now and also those PDRAs/PhDs and graduates already in industry who may aspire to do so as their careers develop. The workshop provided valuable insight into the design process and an excellent opportunity to network. There was no charge for attendance at the Workshop.