Tropospheric Emission Spectrometer (TES) Level 1B Algorithm Theoretical Basis Document

The Tropospheric Emission Spectrometer (TES) is an imaging infrared Fourier transform spectrometer scheduled to be launched into polar sun-synchronous orbit on the Earth Observing System (EOS) CHEMISTRY 1 satellite in December 2002. We describe how the overall mission objectives flow down to the specific science and measurement requirements and how, in turn, these are implemented in the flight hardware.