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Night Watch Mission Description Document

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Kyba,  C.
1.4 Remote Sensing, 1.0 Geodesy, Departments, GFZ Publication Database, Deutsches GeoForschungsZentrum;
Geographisches Institut, Ruhr-Universitat Bochum, Bochum, Germany;
Scientific Technical Report STR, Deutsches GeoForschungsZentrum;

Linares Arroyo,  Hector
Stars4All Foundation;

Degen,  Tobias
Leibniz Institute of Freshwater Ecology and Inland Fisheries (IGB), Berlin, Germany;
Department of Zoology II, University of Würzburg, Würzburg, Germany;

Abascal,  Angela
Faculty of Geo-Information Science and Earth Observation (ITC), University of Twente, Netherlands;

Simoneau,  Alexandre
Cégep de Sherbrooke, Département de physique, Sherbrooke, Canada;
Université de Sherbrooke, Département de géomatique appliquée, Sherbrooke, Canada;

Kuffer,  Monika
Faculty of Geo-Information Science and Earth Observation (ITC), University of Twente, Netherlands;

Hölker,  Franz
Leibniz Institute of Freshwater Ecology and Inland Fisheries (IGB), Berlin, Germany;
Institute of Biology, Freie Universität Berlin, Germany;

Aubé,  Martin
Cégep de Sherbrooke, Département de physique, Sherbrooke, Canada;
Université de Sherbrooke, Département de géomatique appliquée, Sherbrooke, Canada;

Walczak,  Ken
Adler Planetarium, Chicago, USA;

Espey,  Brian R.
School of Physics, Trinity College Dublin, University of Dublin, College Green, Dublin, Ireland;

Sánchez de Miguel,  Alejandro
Física de la Tierra y Astrofísica. Instituto de Física de Partículas y del Cosmos (IPARCOS), Universidad Complutense, Madrid, Spain;
Environment and Sustainability Institute, University of Exeter, Penryn, Cornwall, UK;

Jechow,  Andreas
Leibniz Institute of Freshwater Ecology and Inland Fisheries (IGB), Berlin, Germany;
Department of Engineering, Brandenburg University of Applied Sciences, Brandenburg an der Havel, Germany;

Gyuk,  Geza
Adler Planetarium, Chicago, USA;

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Kyba, C., Linares Arroyo, H., Degen, T., Abascal, A., Simoneau, A., Kuffer, M., Hölker, F., Aubé, M., Walczak, K., Espey, B. R., Sánchez de Miguel, A., Jechow, A., Gyuk, G. (2024): Night Watch Mission Description Document, (Scientific Technical Report STR ; 24/05), Potsdam : GFZ German Research Centre for Geosciences, 153 p.
https://doi.org/10.48440/GFZ.b103-24052


Cite as: https://gfzpublic.gfz-potsdam.de/pubman/item/item_5029348
Abstract
This is the Mission Description Document (MDD) for a future Earth observation satellite mission addressing visible band observations of nighttime lights. The mission driving science applications are for the remote sensing of electricity, energy, and ecological impacts via the observation of artificial light. The MDD covers the mission requirements justification from the high-level scientific objectives and societal benefits to measurement requirements at product level 1b, i.e. radiances at the top of the atmosphere. In providing justification for the individual requirements and their traceability to scientific objectives and societal challenges, we address Scientific Readiness Levels 1 to 3. The MDD is the outcome of the European Space Agency New Earth Observation Mission Ideas project "Night Watch". The Task Reports (TR) from the project are appended to the MDD, and are authored by the same group as the MDD itself.