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1 DLR.de Chart 1 Institute of Optical Sensor Systems German Aerospace Center Dr. Anko Börner Institute of Optical Sensor Systems 15th February 2017

2 DLR.de Chart 2 DLR Deutsches Zentrum für Luft- und Raumfahrt e.v. Research areas and space administration Aeronautics Space Research and Technology Transport Energy Defence and Security Space Administration Project Management Agency

3 DLR.de Chart 3 Locations and employees Approx employees across 33 institutes and facilities at 16 sites. Offices in Brussels, Paris, Tokyo and Washington. Stade Hamburg Bremen Trauen Berlin Braunschweig Goettingen Juelich Cologne Bonn Neustrelitz Lampoldshausen Stuttgart Augsburg Oberpfaffenhofen Weilheim

4 DLR.de Chart 4 Total income 2014 Research, operations and management tasks: 881 Mio. (excluding trustee funding from the Space Administration / DLR Project Management Agency) 56 All values in million Space Research and Technology Aeronautics Transport Energy 79 Defence and Security Space Administration / DLR 62 Project Management Agency Other income / earnings

5 DLR.de Chart 5 DLR Site Berlin Employees: 550 Size of site: m² 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 Berlin-Adlershof

6 DLR.de Chart 6 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

7 DLR.de Chart 7 Focal planes and cameras KompSat3: Focal plane for a high resolution satellite FireBird/ BiROS: IR small satellite mission for hot spot recognition MACS: Modular Airborne Camera System

8 DLR.de Chart 8 > Standard presentation > April 2014 BiROS: Bi-spectral InfraRed Optical System

9 DLR.de Chart 9 Spectrometers GREAT: High resolution Terahertz spectrometer for SOFIA (since 2010) MERTIS: Infrared spectrometer for ESA s BepiColombo mission to Mercury DESIS: Imaging VIS/NIR spectrometer for Earth observation (> 2017 on ISS) LIBS/ Raman spectrometer for in-situ planetary research/ exploration DESIS

10 DLR.de Chart 10 Enabling technology: Laser systems THz gas laser for calibration of ESA s HIFI/ Herschel instrument Seed-laser for a water vapor LIDAR (WALES) World s first THz silicon laser CO 2 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)

11 DLR.de Chart 11 Sensor modelling and data products 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 highprecision 3D surface information. Position & orientation Application 3D point cloud Application specific software

12 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

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