Visualization and Processing of Mesospheric Hydroxyl Infrared Emissions from SABER

The SABER (Sounding of the Atmosphere using Broadband Emission Radiometry) instrument on NASA’s TIMED (Thermosphere Ionosphere Mesosphere Energetics and Dynamics) satellite is a 10-channel infrared radiometer that has been collecting data about Earth’s upper atmosphere for over three years. Two radiometric channels of SABER are centered at wavelengths of 1.67 and 2.06 μm, corresponding to OH (Δv = 2) emissions derived from Meinel rotation-vibration emission bands. The purpose of this study is to develop algorithms to accurately process and display SABER data. Various interpolation methods were investigated and tested to precisely interpolate recorded data points globally. Global airglow volume emission rate (VER) maps were developed