APEX: Current status of the airborne dispersive pushbroom imaging spectrometer

Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering

Volumn 5542, Issue , 2004, Pages 109-116

  Nieke, Jens ^a   Itten, Klaus I ^a   Kaiser, Johannes W ^a   Schläpfer, Daniel ^a   Brazile, Jason ^a   Debruyn, Walter ^b   Meuleman, Koen ^b   Kempeneers, Pieter ^b   Neukom, Andreas ^c   Feusi, Hans ^c   Adolph, Peter ^c   Moser, Renzo ^c   Schilliger, Thomas ^c   Van Quickelberghe, Marie ^d   Alder, John ^d   Mollet, Dominique ^d   De Vos, Lieve ^d   Kohler, Peter ^e   Meng, Markus ^e   Piesbergen, Jens ^e   Strobl, Peter ^f   Schaepman, Michael E ^g   Gavira, José ^h   Ulbrich, Gerd ^h   Meynart, Roland ^h   more..

^a UNIVERSITY OF ZURICH   (Switzerland)

^b FLEMISH INSTITUTE FOR TECHNOLOGICAL RESEARCH VITO   (Belgium)

^c HTS AG   (Switzerland)

^d OIP Sensor Systems   (Belgium)

^e Netcetera AG   (Switzerland)

^f GERMAN AEROSPACE CENTER DLR   (Germany)

^g WAGENINGEN UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^h EUROPEAN SPACE AGENCY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Airborne imaging spectrometer; APEX; Environmental monitoring; Hyperspectral; Imaging spectrometry

Indexed keywords

AIRBORNE IMAGING SPECTROMETERS; AIRBORNE PRISM EXPERIMENT (APEX); ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; HYPERSPECTRAL; IMAGING SPECTROMETRY;

ENVIRONMENTAL ENGINEERING; LIGHT REFLECTION; MONITORING; OPTICAL RESOLVING POWER; REMOTE SENSING; SOLAR RADIATION; SPACECRAFT; SPECTROMETERS; SPECTRUM ANALYSIS;

IMAGING SYSTEMS;

EID: 20144381220     PISSN: 0277786X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.561430     Document Type: Conference Paper

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