The SOST (SCIAMACHY Operations Support Team) provides
maps of the states (limb or nadir) of each SCIAMACHY orbit (choose
Geolocation Limb or Geolocation Nadir in the navigation
frame). The maps are organised according to their orbit numbers. In
the tables below links to the orbit maps are organized according to
their date (UTC). The tables are separated to
nadir and limb states,
explanations to the maps are provided at the end of this page.
Maps are available until
31-DEC-2006
.
2002 | APR | MAY | JUN | JUL | AUG | SEP | OCT | NOV | DEC | |||
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2003 | JAN | FEB | MAR | APR | MAY | JUN | JUL | AUG | SEP | OCT | NOV | DEC |
2004 | JAN | FEB | MAR | APR | MAY | JUN | JUL | AUG | SEP | OCT | NOV | DEC |
2005 | JAN | FEB | MAR | APR | MAY | JUN | JUL | AUG | SEP | OCT | NOV | DEC |
2006 | JAN | FEB | MAR | APR | MAY | JUN | JUL | AUG | SEP | OCT | NOV | DEC |
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2003 | JAN | FEB | MAR | APR | MAY | JUN | JUL | AUG | SEP | OCT | NOV | DEC |
2004 | JAN | FEB | MAR | APR | MAY | JUN | JUL | AUG | SEP | OCT | NOV | DEC |
2005 | JAN | FEB | MAR | APR | MAY | JUN | JUL | AUG | SEP | OCT | NOV | DEC |
2006 | JAN | FEB | MAR | APR | MAY | JUN | JUL | AUG | SEP | OCT | NOV | DEC |
This paragraph is copied from the SOST Weppage("Geolocation").
SCIAMACHY geolocation files exist for nadir and limb states only.
They illustrate the start/stop location of each state in the
atmosphere (nadir at the Earth surface, limb with start at limb_low =
tangent height altitude of 0 km
and stop at limb_high = tangent height altitude of 100 km).
The files presented here are either Earth maps with nadir/limb geolocation
(gif) or tabular listings of geographic coordinates at state start/stop (geolocation
ASCII). The files are based on the swath template provided by the ESA s/w
tool ESOV. As the time tags provided in the ENVISAT planning files are derived
for the reference orbit, it may occur that the actually executed time tags
differ by as much as 5-10 sec from the start/stop times in the geolocation
files (shortly before execution the time-tags are updated by Flight Operations
to reflect the predicted orbit). Therefore it is recommended to use the Elapsed
Time when searching for a particular event along the orbit. The Elapsed
Time is the time elapsed since the last ascending node crossing (ANX).
ANX time and event time-tags are affected similarly by the time update, i.e.
no significant deviations between reference and predicted orbit are expected.
The sub-satellite orbit track displayed in the maps is based on the reference
orbit as well. Different track colours indicate the illuminated part of the
orbit (yellow) and the eclipse phase (dark blue). The eclipse phase is defined
by the eclipse exit/entry times to be given in the Reference
Orbit Event (ROE) file.
During the SODAP part of the Commissioning Phase most of the executed states
are functional or calibration & monitoring states. Therefore SOST will not
continuously generate the aforementioned geolocation files in this
phase of the mission. However it is intended to provide typical samples of
nadir/limb geolocations whenever required.