A hyperspectral imager for high radiometric accuracy Earth climate studies

Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering

Volumn 8158, Issue , 2011, Pages

  Espejo, Joey ^a   Drake, Ginger ^a   Heuerman, Karl ^a   Kopp, Greg ^a   Lieber, Alex ^a   Smith, Paul ^a   Vermeer, Bill ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO   (United States)

Author keywords

CLARREO; Hyperspectral imager; Offner spectrometer

Indexed keywords

APERTURE SIZES; CLARREO; CROSS CALIBRATION; CROSS TRACK; DIRECT CALIBRATION; DIRECT SOLAR; EARTH CLIMATE; FIELD OF VIEWS; HYPERSPECTRAL IMAGER; HYPERSPECTRAL IMAGERS; LIFECYCLE TEST; MECHANICAL DESIGN; NEUTRAL DENSITY FILTERS; NM RESOLUTION; ON-ORBIT; OPTICAL MOUNTS; OPTICAL PERFORMANCE; OUT-OF PLANE; POLARIZATION SENSITIVITY; PUSH BROOM HYPERSPECTRAL IMAGER; RADIOMETRIC ACCURACY; SOLAR CALIBRATION; SOLAR SPECTRAL IRRADIANCE; SPATIAL RESOLUTION; SPECTRAL RANGE; THERMAL VACUUM; THREE-MIRROR ANASTIGMAT TELESCOPES; VISIBLE AND NEAR INFRARED;

CALIBRATION; OPTICAL DESIGN; OPTICAL SYSTEMS; ORBITS; POLARIZATION; RADIOMETRY; SPECTROMETERS; SPECTROMETRY;

EARTH (PLANET);

EID: 80053398234     PISSN: 0277786X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.893803     Document Type: Conference Paper

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