TECHNOLOGY AND CODE article
Front. Remote Sens.
Sec. Multi- and Hyper-Spectral Imaging
Volume 6 - 2025 | doi: 10.3389/frsen.2025.1638530
This article is part of the Research TopicEarth Observations from the Deep Space: 10 Years of the DSCOVR MissionView all 8 articles
Turning EPIC Data into Science Products
Provisionally accepted
- Goddard Space Flight Center, National Aeronautics and Space Administration, Greenbelt, United States
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The EPIC (Earth Polychromatic Imaging Camera) onboard the DSCOVR mission takes full disc illuminated pictures of the earth in 10 spectral bands, ranging from infrared to ultraviolet. Scientists use the data from EPIC to study the surface and atmosphere of the earth, including aerosols, ozone, volcanic plumes, vegetation, and the ocean. This paper describes how raw data from the EPIC instrument is turned into level-2 science products. It describes the hardware and processes that go in to creating a data pipeline for disseminating these science products to the wider community.
Keywords: UV aerosol index, single scattering albedo, Aerosol Optical Depth, Total column ozone, Lambertian Equivalent Reflectivity, SO2 Plumes, Ozone, SO2
Received: 30 May 2025; Accepted: 10 Sep 2025.
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* Correspondence: Marshall Sutton, Goddard Space Flight Center, National Aeronautics and Space Administration, Greenbelt, United States
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