Optical calibration facility at the Izaña Atmospheric Research Center
- Guirado, C.
- Ramos López, Ramón
- Frutos Baraja, Ángel Máximo de
- Berjón Arroyo, Alberto Jesús
- Redondas, Alberto
- López, C.
- Cachorro Revilla, Victoria Eugenia
- Cuevas Agulló, Emilio
- Gónzalez, Ramiro
- Gonzalez, Santiago
- Hernández, M.
ISSN: 2171-8814
Year of publication: 2012
Volume: 45
Issue: 1
Pages: 57-62
Type: Article
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Abstract
During the last years a new optical calibration facility has been developed and deployed at the Izaña Observatory for the calibration and characterization of the radiation measuring instruments within research activities. These activities require a traceable Quality Assurance & Quality Control system. This new facility allows the absolute, spectral and cosine response calibration. At present there are six set-ups running at the laboratory for radiance calibration, angular response determination, spectral response characterization, slit function determination and absolute irradiance calibration (vertical and horizontal set-ups). Each method and procedure has required the development of the corresponding protocol. These systems, as well as some examples of instrument calibrations, are presented in this work.