The NASA enhanced MODIS airborne simulator

Thomas A. Ellis; Jeffrey Myers; Patrick Grant; Steven Platnick; Daniel C Guerin; John Fisher; Kai Song; Joseph Kimchi; Louis Kilmer; Daniel D LaPorte; Christopher C Moeller

doi:10.1117/12.894482

13 September 2011 The NASA enhanced MODIS airborne simulator

Thomas A. Ellis, Jeffrey Myers, Patrick Grant, Steven Platnick, Daniel C Guerin, John Fisher, Kai Song, Joseph Kimchi, Louis Kilmer, Daniel D LaPorte, Christopher C Moeller

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Proceedings Volume 8153, Earth Observing Systems XVI; 81530N (2011) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.894482
Event: SPIE Optical Engineering + Applications, 2011, San Diego, California, United States

Abstract

The new NASA Enhanced MODIS Airborne Simulator (eMAS) is based on the legacy MAS system, which has been used extensively in support of the NASA Earth Observing System program since 1995. eMAS consists of two separate instruments designed to fly together on the NASA ER-2 and Global Hawk high altitude aircraft. The eMAS-IR instrument is an upgraded version of the legacy MAS line-scanning spectrometer, with 38 spectral bands in the wavelength range from 0.47 to 14.1 μm. The original LN2-cooled MAS MWIR and LWIR spectrometers are replaced with a single vacuum-sealed, Stirling-cooled assembly, having a single MWIR and twelve LWIR bands. This spectrometer module contains a cold optical bench where both dispersive optics and detector arrays are maintained at cryogenic temperatures to reduce infrared background noise, and ensure spectral stability during high altitude airborne operations. The EMAS-HS instrument is a stand-alone push-broom imaging spectrometer, with 202 contiguous spectral bands in the wavelength range from 0.38 to 2.40 μm. It consists of two Offner spectrometers, mated to a 4-mirror anastigmatic telescope. The system has a single slit, and uses a dichroic beam-splitter to divide the incoming energy between VNIR and SWIR focal plane arrays. It will be synchronized and bore-sighted with the IR line-scanner, and includes an active source for monitoring calibration stability. eMAS is intended to support future satellite missions including the Hyperspectral Infrared Imager ( HyspIRI,) the National Polar-orbiting Operational Environmental Satellite System (NPOESS) Preparatory Project (NPP,) and the follow-on Joint Polar Satellite System (JPSS.)

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Thomas A. Ellis, Jeffrey Myers, Patrick Grant, Steven Platnick, Daniel C Guerin, John Fisher, Kai Song, Joseph Kimchi, Louis Kilmer, Daniel D LaPorte, and Christopher C Moeller "The NASA enhanced MODIS airborne simulator", Proc. SPIE 8153, Earth Observing Systems XVI, 81530N (13 September 2011); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.894482

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