Qwest and HyTES: Two New Hyperspectral Thermal Infrared Imaging Spectrometers for Earth Science.

摘要

We have recently developed a laboratory prototype of an airborne thermal infrared imaging spectrometer termed the Quantum Well Earth Science Testbed (QWEST). Based on our experience with QWEST we have started to develop the airborne Hyperspectral Thermal Emission Spectrometer (HyTES). HyTES is scheduled for completion in 2011. Both instruments utilize several key components: slits, spectrometers, gratings and detectors developed at the Jet Propulsion laboratory. In particular, each design uses a Dyson spectrometer, an electron microbeam grating and a Quantum Well Infrared Photodetector (QWIP) focal plane array.