Special session: Science and Applications Enabled by Global Coverage Imaging Spectroscopy
| Chair: | Robert O. Green, Jet Propulsion Laboratory, California Institute of Technology, Mail Stop 306-431, 4800 Oak Grove Dr., Pasadena CA 91109 USA Robert.O.Green@jpl.nasa.gov |
| Co-Chair: | Michael E. Schaepman, RSL, University of Zurich, Winterthurerstrasse 190, CH-8057 Zurich, Switzerland michael.schaepman@geo.uzh.ch; |
| Luis Guanter, German Centre for Geosciences (GFZ), Department Geodesy and Remote Sensing, Telegrafenberg A17, 14473 Potsdam, Germany guanter@gfz-potsdam.de | |
| David R. Thompson, Jet Propulsion Laboratory, California Institute of Technology, Mail Stop 306-431, 4800 Oak Grove Dr., Pasadena CA 91109 USA, David.R.Thompson@jpl.nasa.gov |
Visible to Shortwave Infrared (VSWIR) imaging spectroscopy has been deployed to great success in focused site-specific studies with airborne sensors and on space based sampling missions. This will continue. However, based on results investigations, it is increasingly clear that a global coverage space imaging spectrometer is required to enable a broad range of unique and urgent science and applications research objectives. This is especially true in this time for rapid environmental change. Recently the National Research Council requested information on new measurements from space to enable important new science and applications. More than 15 inputs were received calling for global coverage imaging spectroscopy measurements. These inputs spanned the disciplines of terrestrial ecology, coastal ocean, inland waters, the cryosphere, geology, soils, coral reefs, hazards, urban environments, and the atmosphere. This session will present results from current imaging spectrometer measurements that establish the unique and urgent contributions enabled by this class of measurement. The session is also open to related calibration, algorithm, and science data system challenges and opportunities related a to future global coverage VSWIR imaging spectrometer mission
Keywords: Imaging Spectroscopy, Terrestrial Ecosystems, Cryosphere, Geology, Coastal Ocean, Urban environments, Atmosphere
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