Media

News:

• 16-02-2024: Altius: the Belgian flagship mission to monitor the atmosphere
• 02-02-2024: A very special guest: King Philippe of Belgium

Biennial report:

• 2021-2022:
  • ALTIUS: getting ready for Belgium’s O3 mission operations
  • NO2 camera, a combination of remote sensing and imaging
    
    
• 2019-2020:
  • ALTIUS team succeeds at mission preparatory phase activity
  • Evaluation of future ALTIUS stratospheric ozone observations
  • From a dark lab to the sky and space

• 2017-2018:
  • ALTIUS: Atmospheric Limb Tracker for the Investigation of the Upcoming Stratosphere
  • The radio frequency heartbeat of ALTIUS (Engineering)

Seminars, conferences:

• ATMOS 2024 - Bologna, Italy, 1-5 July 2024
  • "ALTIUS O3 retrieval algorithms and expected in-flight performance" - Emmanuel Dekemper
  • "Direct methods for the inversion of limb scattering measurements by machine learning techniques" - Didier Fussen
  • "ALTIUS Ozone Retrieval Algorithm in Stellar Occultation Mode Validated using GOMOS Observations" - Antonin Berthelot
  • "ALTIUS Ozone Retrieval Algorithm in Solar Occultation Mode Validated using SAGE III Observations" - Kristof Rose
  • "ALTIUS Ozone Retrieval Algorithm in Bright Limb Mode Validated using OMPS LPObservations" - Sotiris Sotiriadis
  • "Geophysical Validation Plan for ALTIUS Ozone Profile Data" - Jean-Christopher Lambert

• 12th Atmospheric Limb Workshop - Brussels, 22-26 May 2023
  • "Direct inversion methods in limb scattering geometry" - Didier Fussen (video)
  • "ALTIUS Geophysical Validation Plan" - Jean-Christopher Lambert (video)
  • "The secondary species of ALTIUS" - Emmanuel Dekemper" (video)
     
  • "ALTIUS operational ozone retrievals" - Didier Fussen (video)

  • "Scintillation Mitigation Strategy and Validation of ALTIUS Stellar Occultation L2 Processor using GOMOS Observations" - Antonin Berthelot (video)

  • "The Stability of (Merged) Limb Ozone Profile Data Records used by ESA's Climate Change Initiative" - Daan Hubert (video)
  • "Variability and trends in three stratospheric water vapour profile data records" - Daan Hubert (video)
  • "Ozone CCI: recent science results and planned algorithm developments using limb/occultation data" - Daan Hubert (video)
    
    
  • ALTIUS: baseline observation geometries and special modes (animation)