Mitigation of calibration ringing in the context of the MTG-S IRS Instrument

Abstract

EUMETSAT is currently developing the on-ground processing chain of the infrared Fourier transform spectrometers (IRS) on-board of the Meteosat Third Generation sounding satellites (MTG-S). In this context, the authors have investigated the impact of a particular type of radiometric error, called hereafter the calibration ringing. It arises in Fourier transform spectrometers when the instrument Radiometric Transfer Function (RTF) varies within the domain of the instrument Spectral Response Function (SRF). The expected radiometric errors are simulated in the context of the MTG-S IRS instrument in the long wave infrared (LWIR) band. Making use of a principal components (PC) decomposition, a software correction, called RTF uniformisation, is designed and its performance is assessed in the context of MTG-S IRS.