HIRIS, the instrument and its scienceThe High Resolution Imaging Spectrometer (HIRIS) is a facility instrument slated for flight on the second EOS series AM platforms. HIRIS is designed to acquire 24 km wide, 30 m pixel images in 192 spectral bands simultaneously in the 0.4-2.45 micron wavelength region. With pointing mirrors it can sample any place on Earth, except the poles, every 2 days. HIRIS operates at the intermediate scale between the human and the global and therefore links studies of Earth surface processes to global monitoring carried out by lower resolution instruments. So far, over 50 science data products from HIRIS images have been identified in the fields of atmospheric gases, clouds, snow and ice, water, vegetation, and rocks and soils. The key attribute of imaging spectrometry that makes it possible to derive quantitative information from the data is the large number of contiguous, spectral bands. Therefore, spectrum-matching techniques can be applied. Such techniques are not possible with present-day, multispectral scanner data.
Document ID
19930066615
Acquisition Source
Legacy CDMS
Document Type
Conference Paper
Authors
Goetz, Alexander F. H. (Cooperative Inst. for Research in Environmental Sciences; Colorado Univ. Boulder, United States)
Davis, Curtiss O. (JPL Pasadena, CA, United States)
Date Acquired
August 16, 2013
Publication Date
January 1, 1992
Publication Information
Publication: In: Guidance and control 1992; Proceedings of the 15th Annual AAS Rocky Mountain Conference, Keystone, CO, Feb. 8-12, 1992 (A93-50576 21-18)