The EnMAP spaceborne imaging spectroscopy mission for earth observation

Remote Sensing

Volumn 7, Issue 7, 2015, Pages 8830-8857

  Guanter, Luis ^a   Kaufmann, Hermann ^a   Segl, Karl ^a   Foerster, Saskia ^a   Rogass, Christian ^a   Chabrillat, Sabine ^a   Kuester, Theres ^a   Hollstein, André ^a   Rossner, Godela ^b   Chlebek, Christian ^b   Straif, Christoph ^b   Fischer, Sebastian ^b   Schrader, Stefanie ^b   Storch, Tobias ^b   Heiden, Uta ^b   Mueller, Andreas ^b   Bachmann, Martin ^b   Mühle, Helmut ^b   Müller, Rupert ^b   Habermeyer, Martin ^b   Ohndorf, Andreas ^b   Hill, Joachim ^c   Buddenbaum, Henning ^c   Hostert, Patrick ^d   Van Der Linden, Sebastian ^d   Leitão, Pedro J ^d   Rabe, Andreas ^d   Doerffer, Roland ^e   Krasemann, Hajo ^e   Xi, Hongyan ^e   Mauser, Wolfram ^f   Hank, Tobias ^f   Locherer, Matthias ^f   Rast, Michael ^g   Staenz, Karl ^h   Sang, Bernhard ⁱ   more..

^a GFZ GERMAN RESEARCH CENTRE FOR GEOSCIENCES   (Germany)

^b GERMAN AEROSPACE CENTER DLR   (Germany)

^c UNIVERSITY OF TRIER   (Germany)

^d HUMBOLDT UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^e INSTITUTE OF MATERIALS RESEARCH   (Germany)

^f UNIVERSITY OF MUNICH   (Germany)

^g ESA ESRIN   (Italy)

^h UNIVERSITY OF LETHBRIDGE   (Canada)

ⁱ OHB SYSTEM AG   (Germany)

Author keywords

Earth observation; EnMAP; Environmental applications; Hyperspectral remote sensing; Imaging spectroscopy

Indexed keywords

INFRARED DEVICES; OBSERVATORIES; REMOTE SENSING; SIGNAL TO NOISE RATIO; SPACE OPTICS;

EARTH OBSERVATIONS; ENMAP; ENVIRONMENTAL APPLICATIONS; HYPERSPECTRAL REMOTE SENSING; IMAGING SPECTROSCOPY;

SPECTROMETERS;

EID: 84937947483     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20724292     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3390/rs70708830     Document Type: Review

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