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Highlights from 10 Years of NASA/KNMI/FMI Collaboration on UV Remote Sensing from SpaceThe first joint meeting between NASA, KNMI and FMI scientists was held on 13 & 14 June, 2000, almost exactly 10 years ago. NASA had recently selected 14 US scientists to work on instrument calibration, science algorithms, and validation activities related to the Ozone Monitoring Instrument (OMI) that we being built by collaboration between the Netherlands and Finland for flight on NASA's EOS Aura satellite. The progress on this project had been remarkable for a space based instrument. Only two years before this meeting my colleague Ernest Hilsenrath and I had visited Netherlands at the invitation of Fokker Space to persuade KNMI management to collaborate with NASA on this mission. And only 4 years after the first science meeting was held OMI was lunched on the Aura spacecraft. Next month will be the 6 th anniversary of this launch and very successful operation of OMI. All this was possible because of the leadership from Dr. Hennie Kelder and KNMI management who in 1998 saw the opportunity for Netherlands in the mission and stepped up to the challenge by creating a young and talented team of scientists at KNMI under the leadership of Dr. Pieterenel Levelt. This vision has now put Netherlands as the leading country in the world in monitoring air quality from space. Recent selection of TROPOMI by ESA attests to the success of this vision. I will present some selected highlights of our very successful collaboration on this project over the past 10 years.
Document ID
20100026474
Acquisition Source
Goddard Space Flight Center
Document Type
Conference Paper
Authors
Bhartia, Pawan K.
(NASA Goddard Space Flight Center Greenbelt, MD, United States)
Date Acquired
August 24, 2013
Publication Date
June 13, 2010
Subject Category
Earth Resources And Remote Sensing
Meeting Information
Meeting: 15th OMI (Ozone Monitoring Instrument) Science Team Meeting: What are we Learning from OMI Data?
Location: De Bilt, Netherlands
Country: Netherlands
Start Date: June 15, 2010
End Date: June 17, 2010
Sponsors: Royal Netherlands Meteorological Inst.
Distribution Limits
Public
Copyright
Work of the US Gov. Public Use Permitted.

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