Profilers/Sounders
type: Concept

SSULI
type: Concept
in scheme: instruments
definition: [Source: National Space Science Data Center, http://nssdc.gsfc.nasa.gov/nmc/experimentDisplay.do?id=2003-048A-09 ] The Special Sensor Ultraviolet Limb Imager (SSULI) measures vertical profiles of the natural airglow radiation from atoms, molecules and ions in the upper atmosphere and ionosphere by viewing the Earth's limb at a tangent altitude of approximately 50 km to 750 km. Measurements are made from the extreme ultraviolet (EUV) to the far ultraviolet (FUV) over the wavelength range of 80 nm to 170 nm, with 1.8 nm resolution. The SSULI instrument was developed by the Naval Research Laboratory (NRL) for the Air Force Defense Meteorological Satellite Program (DMSP) . A SSULI prototype, the Low Resolution Airglow and Auroral Spectrograph (LORAAS), was launched onboard the Advanced Research and Global Observation Satellite (ARGOS) on February 23, 1999. More information can be found on the NRL SSULI site at http://www.nrl.navy.mil/tira/Projects/ssuli/ Group: Instrument_Details Entry_ID: SSULI Group: Instrument_Identification Instrument_Category: Earth Remote Sensing Instruments Instrument_Class: Passive Remote Sensing Instrument_Type: Profilers/Sounders Short_Name: SSULI Long_Name: Special Sensor Ultraviolet Limb Imager End_Group Group: Associated_Platforms Short_Name: DMSP 5D-3/F16 End_Group Group: Spectral_Frequency_Information Wavelength_Keyword: Ultraviolet Spectral_Frequency_Coverage_Range: 80 nm to 170 nm End_Group Online_Resource: http://nssdc.gsfc.nasa.gov/nmc/experimentDisplay.do?id=2003-048A-09 Online_Resource: http://www.nrl.navy.mil/tira/Projects/ssuli/ Creation_Date: 2008-10-31 Group: Instrument_Logistics Instrument_Owner: Department of Defense (United States) End_Group End_Group