APEX: Current Status of the Airborne Dispersive Pushbroom Imaging Spectrometer

Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering

Volumn 5234, Issue , 2004, Pages 202-210

  Schaepman, Michael E ^a   Itten, Klaus I ^a   Schläpfer, Daniel ^b   Kaiser, Johannes W ^b   Brazile, Jason ^b   Debruyn, Walter ^c   Neukom, Andreas ^d   Feusi, Hans ^d   Adolph, Peter ^d   Moser, Renzo ^d   Schilliger, Thomas ^d   De Vos, Lieve ^e   Brandt, Guido ^e   Kohler, Peter ^f   Meng, Markus ^f   Piesbergen, Jens ^f   Strobl, Peter ^g   Gavira, Jose ^h   Ulbrich, Gerd ^h   Meynart, Roland ^h  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ZURICH   (Switzerland)

^b RSL ^*

^c FLEMISH INSTITUTE FOR TECHNOLOGICAL RESEARCH VITO   (Belgium)

^d HTS AG   (Switzerland)

^e OIP   (Belgium)

^f Netcetera AG   (Switzerland)

^g GERMAN AEROSPACE CENTER DLR   (Germany)

^h EUROPEAN SPACE AGENCY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Calibration; Data processing; Hyperspectral; Imaging spectrometer; Imaging spectroscopy applications; Pushbroom; Sensor design; Validation

Indexed keywords

CALIBRATION; COMPUTER SOFTWARE; DATA PROCESSING; IMAGE SENSORS; IMAGING TECHNIQUES; INTERNET; OPTIMIZATION; REMOTE SENSING; SNOW; SOILS; SPECTROSCOPIC ANALYSIS;

HYPERSPECTRAL; IMAGING SPECTROMETERS; IMAGING SPECTROSCOPY APPLICATIONS; PUSHBROOM; SENSOR DESIGN; VALIDATION;

SPECTROMETERS;

EID: 11144353773     PISSN: 0277786X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.513745     Document Type: Conference Paper

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