Recent advances in airborne terrestrial remote sensing with the NASA airborne visible/infrared imaging spectrometer (AVIRIS), airborne synthetic aperture radar (SAR), and thermal infrared multispectral scanner (TIMS)Significant progress in terrestrial remote sensing from the air has been made with three NASA-developed sensors that collectively cover the solar-reflected, thermal infrared, and microwave regions of the electromagnetic spectrum. These sensors are the airborne visible/infrared imaging spectrometer (AVIRIS), the thermal infrared mapping spectrometer (TIMS) and the airborne synthetic aperture radar (SAR), respectively. AVIRIS and SAR underwent extensive in-flight engineering testing in 1987 and 1988 and are scheduled to become operational in 1989. TIMS has been in operation for several years. These sensors are described.
Document ID
19910031044
Acquisition Source
Legacy CDMS
Document Type
Conference Paper
Authors
Vane, Gregg (Jet Propulsion Lab., California Inst. of Tech. Pasadena, CA, United States)
Evans, Diane L. (Jet Propulsion Lab., California Inst. of Tech. Pasadena, CA, United States)