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Usually, the SRFs are assessed on-ground and then monitored on-flight using tedious analysis of the acquired radiances coupled with instrumental models; nonetheless, the complete retrieval of the SRFs is generally out of reach. In this context, EUMETSAT has developed a novel SRF retrieval methodology, with the intention of applying it routinely to the current Metop IASI instruments and soon to Metop-SG IASI-NG, and MTG-S IRS. By making use of spatiotemporal colocations of different detectors within a single instrument or between different platforms, relative SRFs may be retrieved on-flight without any a priori knowledge. The presented methodology is suited for instruments acquiring radiances with contiguous sampling over large spectral bands as the SRFs are retrieved by analyzing the neighboring channels\u2019 correlations. This article focuses on Fourier transform spectrometers (FTS) in the far infrared as they possess these characteristics per design, but it is believed that the method could be extended to other technology and spectral bands. The SRFs are further processed to evaluate the relative self-apodization functions (SAFs), as they represent the discrepancies between the detectors at the interferograms level, the primary measurements of FTS. The following article presents both simulations and applications of the SRF retrieval for the three IASI instruments aboard the Metop platforms of the EPS program. We analyze both IASI sensors aboard Metop-B and C as well as the evolution of Metop-A IASI over 13 years of operation.<\/jats:p>","DOI":"10.3390\/rs16234449","type":"journal-article","created":{"date-parts":[[2024,11,27]],"date-time":"2024-11-27T08:17:42Z","timestamp":1732695462000},"page":"4449","update-policy":"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.3390\/mdpi_crossmark_policy","source":"Crossref","is-referenced-by-count":1,"title":["Spectral Response Function Retrieval of Spaceborne Fourier Transform Spectrometers: Application to Metop-IASI"],"prefix":"10.3390","volume":"16","author":[{"ORCID":"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0009-0006-6690-5955","authenticated-orcid":false,"given":"Pierre","family":"Dussarrat","sequence":"first","affiliation":[{"name":"EUMETSAT, Eumetsat-Allee 1, 64295 Darmstadt, Germany"}],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]},{"given":"Guillaume","family":"Deschamps","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"EUMETSAT, Eumetsat-Allee 1, 64295 Darmstadt, Germany"}],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]},{"given":"Dorothee","family":"Coppens","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"EUMETSAT, Eumetsat-Allee 1, 64295 Darmstadt, Germany"}],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]}],"member":"1968","published-online":{"date-parts":[[2024,11,27]]},"reference":[{"key":"ref_1","doi-asserted-by":"crossref","first-page":"4797","DOI":"10.5194\/acp-9-4797-2009","article-title":"First year of upper tropospheric integrated content of CO2 from IASI hyperspectral infrared observations","volume":"9","author":"Crevoisier","year":"2009","journal-title":"Atmos. 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