A SMALL SATELLITE HYPERSPECTRAL MISSION

摘要

This paper will describe a low hyper-spectral mission based around the Compact High Resolution Imaging Spectrometer (CHRIS) that has been developed at Sira Technology Ltd. The imaging spectrometer is flying on the ESA PROBA platform, a small agile satellite, which was launch in October 2001. The main purpose of the instrument is to provide images of land areas. Of particular interest is the measurement of the Bi-directional Reflectance Distribution Function (BRDF) properties for selected targets on the Earth surface using multi-angle observations.