Air-LUSI: Supporting Advancement [STC1] of the Moon as a Reference for Earth Observations from Space Air-LUSI: Supporting Advancement of the Moon as a Reference for Earth Observations from Space

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Turpie, K., Brown, S., Woodward, J., Stone, T., Gadsden, A., Grantham, S., Larason, T., Maxwell, S., Cataford, A., and Newton, A.: Air-LUSI: Supporting Advancement [STC1] of the Moon as a Reference for Earth Observations from Space Air-LUSI: Supporting Advancement of the Moon as a Reference for Earth Observations from Space, EGU General Assembly 2021, online, 19–30 Apr 2021, EGU21-14222, https://doi.org/10.5194/egusphere-egu21-14222, 2021.

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To monitor global environments from space, satellites must be calibrated accurately and consistently across time, missions and instruments. This requires the use of a stable, common reference that is continuously accessible to Earth observing satellites, whether they make up series of missions spanning long periods of time or comprise constellations acquiring many simultaneous observations across the planet