Institute of Optical Sensor Systems German Aerospace Center

Dr. Anko Brner Institute of Optical Sensor Systems 15th February 2017

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Aeronautics Space Research and Technology Transport Energy Defence and Security Space Administration Project Management Agency

DLR Deutsches Zentrum fr Luft- und Raumfahrt e.V. Research areas and space administration

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Locations and employees

Approx. 8000 employees across 33 institutes and facilities at 16 sites.

Offices in Brussels, Paris, Tokyo and Washington.

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Cologne

Oberpfaffenhofen

Braunschweig

Goettingen

Berlin

Bonn

Neustrelitz

Weilheim

Bremen Trauen

Lampoldshausen

Stuttgart

Stade

Augsburg

Hamburg

Juelich

340

227

62

79

117

56

Space Research andTechnologyAeronautics

Transport

Energy

Space Administration / DLRProject Management AgencyOther income / earnings

All values in million

45

Defence and Security

Total income 2014 Research, operations and management tasks: 881 Mio. (excluding trustee funding from the Space Administration / DLR Project Management Agency)

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DLR Site Berlin Employees: 550 Size of site: 20 123 m Berlin-Adlershof Research institutes and facilities: Institute of Optical Sensor Systems Institute of Planetary Research Institute of Transport Research Marine Remote Sensing Group of the DLR

Remote Sensing Technology Institute System Conditioning department of the DLR

Institute of Space Systems Technology Marketing DLR Project Management Agency Berlin-Charlottenburg Research institutes and facilities: Propulsion Acoustics Department of the DLR

Institute of Propulsion Technology DLR Project Management Agency Berlin-Mitte Facilities: Representative Office of the Executive Board

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Berlin-Adlershof

Institute of Optical Sensor Systems Mission:

Research and development of optical sensor systems (UV, VIS, IR, THz) in analogy and extension of the human visual perception.

Research areas: - Focal planes and camera systems - Spectrometers - Sensor modelling & data products Applications:

- Earth observation - Planetary research - Security - Transport

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Focal planes and cameras

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KompSat3: Focal plane for a high resolution satellite

FireBird/ BiROS: IR small satellite mission for hot spot recognition

MACS: Modular Airborne Camera System

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BiROS: Bi-spectral InfraRed Optical System

GREAT: High resolution Terahertz spectrometer for SOFIA (since 2010)

MERTIS: Infrared spectrometer for ESAs BepiColombo mission to Mercury

DESIS: Imaging VIS/NIR spectrometer for Earth observation (> 2017 on ISS)

LIBS/ Raman spectrometer for in-situ planetary research/ exploration

Spectrometers

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DESIS

THz gas laser for calibration of ESAs HIFI/ Herschel instrument

Seed-laser for a water vapor LIDAR (WALES)

Worlds first THz silicon laser CO2 for beam characterization at a

synchrotron (ANKA/ KIT) Local oscillator with quantum cascade

laser for GREAT/ SOFIA Contributions to GRACE und OSIRIS

laser systems Laser system for a Raman

spectrometer (under development)

Enabling technology: Laser systems

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System theory: complete modelling of an optical sensor system

Optical navigation: Multi-sensor concepts, attitude, trajectory estimation, outdoor and indoor

Data fusion: Optic & radar, 3D & hyperspectral Derivation of semantic geo-information and high-

precision 3D surface information.

Sensor modelling and data products

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Position & orientation 3D point cloud

Application

Application specific software

Actual contributions to space missions CHEOPS: Focal plane, electronics InSight: HP3-Radiometer MERTIS: System PLATO: Modelling, electronics SOFIA: GREAT and upGREAT VERITAS: VEM GRACE: LRI KompSat 3a: Focal plane EnMAP: VNIR-Focal plane FireBird/ TET: Cameras FireBird/ BIROS: System

Institute of Optical Sensor SystemsGerman Aerospace CenterDLR Deutsches Zentrum fr Luft- und Raumfahrt e.V. Research areas and space administrationLocations and employeesTotal income 2014 Research, operations and management tasks: 881 Mio. (excluding trustee funding from the Space Administration / DLR Project Management Agency)DLR Site BerlinInstitute of Optical Sensor SystemsFocal planes and camerasFoliennummer 8SpectrometersEnabling technology: Laser systemsSensor modelling and data productsActual contributions to space missions