DLR
DLR, the Deutsches Zentrum für Luft- und Raumfahrt - German Aerospace Center is the Prime Contractor and has scientific coordination of the ISOGG Project.
The FTS laboratory section of DLR was established in 1988 as part of the Institute of Optoelectronics, section “infrared techniques“, in Oberpfaffenhofen near Munich, Germany. The group was led by Dr D. Hausamann until February 1990, and by Dr M. Birk from that date. In 1991 Dr G. Wagner became a staff member of the group. Dr. Birk has considerable experience with the group’s Fourier-transform spectrometer because he was involved in the development process of the prototype during his PhD thesis at the group of Prof. M. Winnewisser at the University of Gießen. Further experience with the same type of instrument was gained during his NRC postdoctoral fellowship at JPL/NASA in Pasadena, USA. Dr. Wagner also did his Ph.D. in the group of Prof. Winnewisser, where he gathered experience in FTS measurements and molecular spectroscopy. A number of Ph.D. theses have been carried out in the group. The initial task of the group was laboratory spectroscopy of atmospheric relevant species in the FIR, the second task remote sensing.
LIPhy
The Laboratoire Interdisciplinaire de Physique LIPhy is affiliated to both Université Grenoble Alpes (UGA) and Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS UMR5588). While its research fields strongly evolved in the last years, it has kept from the beginning a strong tradition in optical methods and instrumentation. The group LAME (for Laser, Molecules and Environment) involved in ISOGG has a well recognized leadership in the development of highly sensitive laser spectrometers in relation to requests from the atmospheric and planetary communities. The LAME team is the only group at LIPhy affiliated with the large federation of Grenoble laboratories involved in Earth and Universe sciences:
the OSUG Observatoire des Sciences de l’Univers de Grenoble.
The LAME team has a long tradition in the innovation and development of techniques for high sensitivity absorption spectroscopy, motivated by environmental applications ranging from the spectroscopic characterization of extremely weak transitions in molecules of atmospheric or planetological interest, to the quantification of trace concentrations and isotopic ratios in gas samples for environemental, geophysical and medical applications. Our experimental set-ups have in common that they are all based on high finesse optical cavities. These cavities are composed of highly reflective mirrors and enable the trapping of photons, coming from a light source (generally a laser) in resonance with the cavity modes, during a significant time span (e.g., 100 µs). The enhanced interaction of trapped photons with gas inside the cavity allows for highly sensitive absorption measurements.
IUP-UB
Environmental Physics IUP-UB is a Department of the University of Bremen (DE).
IUP-UB is one of the world-leading University research centres for remote sensing applications using absorption spectroscopy of backscattered solar light
The IUP-UB has a long-standing experience both in collaborating within various ESA projects (e.g. GHG-CCI Phase 1, SQWG, ADVANSE) and in managing or contributing to EU projects (e.g, ACCENT, MACC/MACC-II, AMFIC), retrieval of atmospheric and other data products from satellite data, including GHG from SCIAMACHY and related radiative transfer, as well a ground-based and aircraft measurements including GHGs (e.g., MAMAP).
The MolSpec Lab experimental equipment has already been successfully employed in spectroscopy studies within several ESA projects for the determination of high-quality ozone cross sections in UV (HARMONICS), methane line parameters in IR (ADVANSE), and NIR water lines parameters (SOLUTION). A significant part of the equipment participated in the CATGAS measurements for calibration of the flight models of the satellite spectrometers (GOME, GOME-2, SCIAMACHY).
UMK
Uniwersytet Mikołaja Kopernika w Toruniu (UMK) was founded in 1945. It is one of the largest universities in Poland. NCU has state-of-the-art research infrastructure including the National Laboratory of Atomic, Molecular and Optical Physics (FAMO), the Center for Quantum Optics and the Interdisciplinary Center for Modern Technologies to name but a few.
ISOGG project will be carried out in the division of Optical Control and Metrology in Quantum Systems, headed by Prof. Roman Ciuryło, which is a part of the Department of Atomic, Molecular and Optical Physics on the Institute of Physics. The group has significant experience in high-accuracy measurements of spectral line shapes, line centers and intensities in the visible- and near-infrared region using frequency-stabilized cavity ring-down spectroscopy (FS-CRDS) and Fourier-transform direct frequency comb spectroscopy (FT-DFCS), both having negligibly narrow instrumental function. The group members have impact on the development of spectral line shape theory as well as advanced line shape models going beyond the Voigt profile and their use in spectra analysis to achieve accurate molecular line parameters.
UHEI
The Institute of Environmental Physics at Heidelberg University, founded in 1975, has decades of experience in spectroscopic remote sensing of atmospheric composition. In 2018, work package leader André Butz was appointed professor for atmospheric physics at the institute shifting the group’s focus from applications in the UV/visible spectral range (where the Differential Optical Absorption Spectroscopy (DOAS) technique is applicable) to the greenhouse gas absorption bands in the shortwave infrared. André Butz and his teams (in variable composition) have collected expertise in greenhouse gas remote sensing from satellites and ground-based platforms for more than a decade.
A landmark achievement was the development of the RemoTeC retrieval algorithm together with Dr. Otto Hasekamp and Dr. Jochen Landgraf from the Netherlands Institute for Space Research (SRON), Utrecht, in the years 2007 to 2013 with continued developments until today. RemoTeC is now in use for virtually all European, US and Japanese greenhouse gas satellites and it has been shown to be one of the world-leading radiative transfer and retrieval tools for greenhouse gas remote sensing.
On the ground, the UHEI group’s recent work has focused on further developments of portable spectrometers of the type EM27/SUN specializing in mobile deployments e.g. CO2 emissions from Mt. Etna volcano, CH4 emissions from coal mining in the Upper Silesian coal basin, validation measurements of CO2, CH4, CO on research vessels.
A. Bigazzi
Alberto Bigazzi is ISOGG’s Project manager. A. Bigazzi is a freelance consultant
After his PhD in Physics (1999) Alberto has held several Post-Doctoral research positions in the field of Heliospheric Science and was (2001-2003) NRC Associate at NASA/Jet Propulsion Laboratory.
In 2005 he has moved to Aerospace Industry where he has since worked as a System Engineer (Ground Segments) and Project Manager in projects for ESA, NASA and ASI.
From 2009 to 2014 he was on-site consultant at ESA (ESRIN, IT), covering the full Operational Phase of the GOCE mission from launch to de-orbiting.
Appointed “Expert” to EU’s European Economic and Social Committee (EESC), from 2011 to 2013 he has drafted a number of Opinions to the European Parliament on matters related to the EU involvement in Space (EU’s Space Surveillance and Tracking (SST) system, the European Space Policy, GMES/Copernicus ).
Since 2015, he is self-employed Engineering Consultant, and was Project Manager on several ESA projecs such as
ESA/ERS-1 Scatterometer instrument Competence Centre Project (SCIROCCO) and the SENTINEL-5p improved atmospheric database (SEOM-IAS), the precursor project to ISOGG.