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Antonin Berthelot demonstrates the ALTIUS video game at the 2022 Open Doors event.

The ALTIUS team at BIRA-IASB hosted the 12th Atmospheric Limb Workshop in 2023.

Recent news:

• 29-04-2026: ALTIUS mission highlighted in the Choose Belgium initiative: interview with Noel Baker (video)
• 03-03-2026: Testing ozone-monitoring satellite’s solar wings 
• 16-02-2024: Altius: the Belgian flagship mission to monitor the atmosphere
• 02-02-2024: A very special guest: King Philippe of Belgium 

Annual report:

• 2023-2024:
  • Expanding the ALTIUS ozone mission to more climate variables
  • Capturing the skies with the NO2 Camera
• 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)

Highlights: selected conference presentations

• 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)