SCARBOn Second Formal Review

Published: October 14 / 2025

SCARBOn Second Formal Review

​The Second Formal Review of the SCARBOn project, within the Horizon Europe programme framework, took place on 30th September in Grenoble, hosted by the Université Grenoble Alpes (UGA).

​During the meeting, the SCARBOn consortium together with the European Health and Digital Executive Agency (HaDEA) representatives, discussed the project’s progress, recent achievements and next steps. The agenda included detailed presentations from all Work Packages, covering mainly instruments design, data exploitation and system-level developments. 

Key SCARBOn progress:

  • NanoCarb prototype components upgrade and manufacturing
  • NanoCarb space version design upgrade
  • SPEXone design features specific to SCARBOn need
  • SCARBOn constellation optimisation ongoing
  • Results dissemination ​

SCARBOn’s progress received overall positive preliminary feedback, reflecting the project’s valuable contributions to atmospheric observation technologies.

As part of the event, the NanoCarb camera, designed to measure man-made greenhouse gas emissions with high precision, was showcased live to present the upgraded NanoCarb prototype (produced by UGA, ONERA & Absolut Systems).  Showcase of SPEXone 3D model (Airbus Netherlands product) offered  an interactive understanding of the multi-angle imaging spectropolarimeter which provides complementary aerosol measurements, to correct atmospheric scattering effects, thus enhancing the precision of SCARBOn GHG measurements. 

NanoCarb Camera

SPEXone 3D Model

At the end, the SCARBOn consortium had the opportunity to visit the UGA-IPAG laboratory, where the optical components of the NanoCarb instrument are characterized.

The gathering in Grenoble was successfully wrapped up with a day 2 internal SCARBOn project meeting and a visit to the UGA-LTM clean room used for fabrication of NanoCarb interferometric plates based on grayscale lithography and plasma etching.