S. Garcia-Blanco, P. Côté, M. Leclerc, N. Blanchard, Y. Desroches, J.-S. Caron, L. Ngo Phong, F. Châteauneuf, T. Pope "Radiometric packaging of uncooled microbolometer FPA arrays for space applications" Proc. of SPIE, 7206, art. no. 720604, 2009
Résumé: INO has extensive experience in the design and fabrication of focal plane arrays (FPAs) of uncooled microbolometers. In particular, the FPA of 512×3 microbolometers, developed in collaboration with the Canadian Space Agency (CSA), has been selected for use in the NIRST (New Infrared Sensor Technology) radiometer of the SAC-D Aquarius mission. The FPA has been designed for pushbroom scanning of the Earth to provide radiometric data in the mid- and long-wave infrared for the monitoring of fires as well as thermal mapping of ocean temperature. Uncooled microbolometer detectors are suited for space applications due to their low power consumption while still exhibiting adequate performance. Furthermore, the spectral range of their response could be tuned from the mid- to the far-infrared to meet different mission requirements. In order to ensure that the detector receives only the thermal contribution from the desired target and to minimize radiometric error due to variation of the temperat
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