In recent years TNO has investigated and developed different innovative opto-mechanical designs to realize advanced spectrometers for space applications in a more compact and cost-effective manner. This offers multiple advantages: a compact instrument can be flown on a much smaller platform or as add-on on a larger platform; a low-cost instrument opens up the possibility to fly multiple instruments in a satellite constellation, improving both global coverage and temporal sampling (e.g. multiple overpasses per day to study diurnal processes); in this way a constellation of low-cost instruments may provide added value to the larger scientific and operational satellite missions (e.g. the Copernicus Sentinel missions); a small, lightweight spectrometer can easily be mounted on a small aircraft or high-altitude UAV (offering high spatial resolution).


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    Title :

    First aircraft test results of a compact, low cost hyperspectral imager for earth observation from space


    Contributors:

    Conference:

    International Conference on Space Optics 2016 ; 2016 ; Biarritz,France


    Published in:

    Proc. SPIE ; 10562


    Publication date :

    2017-09-25





    Type of media :

    Conference paper


    Type of material :

    Electronic Resource


    Language :

    English



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