Overview of the imaging spectrometer instrument for NASA’s Surface Biology and Geology mission.
Following the 2017 release of the National Academies of Science, Engineering and Medicine’s Earth Science and Applications Decadal Survey (ESAS 2017), the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) announced the development of an Earth System Observatory (ESO), a series of missions designed to observe processes across the Earth’s interior, surface and atmosphere.
One of the key identified investigation in the ESO series is the Surface Biology and Geology (SBG) mission. SBG will measure the composition and properties of Earth’s land, inland waters, and coastal oceans. The architecture of this mission consists of 2 satellites one covering the Visible Shortwave Infrared (VSWIR) and the Thermal Infrared (TIR) spectrum respectively and is slated for launch in the later part of the decade.
This talk will focus on the new global coverage observation that will be made from space by the VSWIR Wide Swath (VSWIR-WS) imaging spectrometer instrument. This measurement is part of the Surface Biology and Geology (SBG) mission.
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