On-orbit test results from the EO-1 Advanced Land Imager

Jenifer B. Evans; Constantine J. Digenis; Margaret D. Gibbs; David R. Hearn; Donald E. Lencioni; Jeffrey A. Mendenhall; Ralph D. Welsh

doi:10.1117/12.453442

18 January 2002 On-orbit test results from the EO-1 Advanced Land Imager

Jenifer B. Evans, Constantine J. Digenis, Margaret D. Gibbs, David R. Hearn, Donald E. Lencioni, Jeffrey A. Mendenhall, Ralph D. Welsh

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Proceedings Volume 4483, Earth Observing Systems VI; (2002) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.453442
Event: International Symposium on Optical Science and Technology, 2001, San Diego, CA, United States

Abstract

The Advanced Land Imager (ALI) is the primary instrument flown on the first Earth Observing mission (EO-1), launched on November 21, 2000. It was developed under NASA's New Millennium Program (NMP). The NMP mission objective is to flight-validate advanced technologies that will enable dramatic improvements in performance, cost, mass, and schedule for future, Landsat-like, Earth Science Enterprise instruments. ALI contains a number of innovative features designed to achieve this objective. These include the basic instrument architecture which employs a push-broom data collection mode, a wide field of view optical design, compact multi-spectral detector arrays, non-cryogenic HgCdTe for the short wave infrared bands, silicon carbide optics, and a multi-level solar calibration technique. During the first ninety days on orbit, the instrument performance was evaluated by collecting several Earth scenes and comparing them to identical scenes obtained by Landsat7. In addition, various on-orbit calibration techniques were exercised. This paper will present an overview of the EO-1 mission activities during the first ninety days on-orbit, details of the ALI instrument performance and a comparison with the ground calibration measurements.

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Jenifer B. Evans, Constantine J. Digenis, Margaret D. Gibbs, David R. Hearn, Donald E. Lencioni, Jeffrey A. Mendenhall, and Ralph D. Welsh "On-orbit test results from the EO-1 Advanced Land Imager", Proc. SPIE 4483, Earth Observing Systems VI, (18 January 2002); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.453442

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