Argus team wins 2010 Alouette Award

Thoth congratulates CanX-2 and the Argus team at York University's Space Engineering Laboratory on  winning the Alouette Award.

York University's Argus instrument team has been awarded the Alouette Award by the Canadian Aeronautics and Space Institute.

Argus team members include Prof. Brendan Quine (PI), Rajinder Jagpal, Sanjar Abrarov, Hugh Chesser, Harvey Emberley, Alex Ho, Prof. Regina Lee, Dr. Caroline Roberts and Dr. Brian Solhiem.  

The YorkU team has been utilizing a space-based Argus launched in 2008 to observe the radiation leaving the Earth's surface and atmosphere. In the infrared spectrum, absorption by water, clouds and carbon dioxide traps the Sun's energy near the surface keeping the planet hospitable for life. Increased industrialization and greenhouse gas utilization are modifying the radiation environment and changing the pattern that Earth absorbs sunlight, leading to climate change. Argus has the capability to observe the radiation effect caused by surface pollution plumes. With a spatial accuracy of 1.5 km Argus can observe directly large emissions of carbon dioxide, a primary greenhouse gas. The Argus technology is now available commercially from Thoth Technology.

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