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CIMEL-GRASP alliance

CIMEL joins the GRASP Earth group, bridging space-to-ground atmospheric monitoring

Keywords: Alliance · GRASP Earth · NewSpace · Atmospheric monitoring · Polarimeters · Air quality · Climate · Earth observation

CIMEL and GRASP are joining forces within GRASP Earth to accelerate a new generation of atmospheric environmental monitoring, from space down to reference ground observations. By combining CIMEL’s expertise in high-precision scientific instrumentation with GRASP’s advanced retrieval and data processing capabilities, the alliance aims to deliver actionable information for climate research, meteorology, air quality and environmental decision-making.

Monitoring atmospheric composition, including aerosols, gases and clouds, is essential for public health and climate applications and it also supports key satellite surface imagery uses. Yet capturing a reliable picture of a complex and rapidly changing atmosphere requires multiple instrument types and a consistent processing approach, across scales ranging from local to global and from the surface to the upper atmosphere. GRASP Earth’s ambition is to bring together ground based accuracy, satellite coverage and powerful inversion algorithms into coherent measurement and processing chains that users can trust.

As part of the alliance, CIMEL will contribute its industrial know-how for spaceborne instrumentation while continuing its current operations and collaborations with partners and customers to build robust end-to-end data product chains.

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