Research Article

Solar Light Radiometry Calibration Unit for a ScanPol Polarimeter of the Aerosol-UA Space Mission

Table 1

Digital numbers W proportional to light intensity for different angles β of the Sun’s positions.

ScanPol telescopesW (β0)W (βmin)W (βmax)The difference in the intensity relative to the center of the FOV
Δ W (βmin), %Δ W (βmax), %

VIS12034520321201760.160.83
VIS21573815786157150.30.14
IR12862127307272524.54.8
IR22321822216220164.35.2