Abstract
The NASA Airborne Sensor Facility (ASF) at Ames Research Center maintains a suite of facility remote sensing instruments that support multi-disciplinary research in the NASA Earth Science Division. These instruments are maintained at the ASF, and are regularly characterized and calibrated in its radiometric calibration laboratory. This facility specializes in radiometric calibration and spectral characterization of passive optical airborne sensors that have moderate to high spectral resolution from 0.35um – 14um. In the past, this calibration facility has focused on scanning instruments with large apertures and narrow instantaneous fields of view such as the eMAS-scanner (the enhanced MODIS Airborne Simulator - formerly MAS) and MASTER (the MODIS/ASTER Airborne Simulator.) More recently, ASF’s capabilities have been expanded to support wide field of view staring systems, such as pushbroom Offner spectrometers like the new facility instrument eMAS-HSI, which has a 50 degree cross track field of view. These calibration facilities are available to compare and calibrate other instruments from partner organizations in government and academia.
Calibrating Hyper- and Multispectral Imagers at the NASA Ames Airborne Sensor Facility
The NASA Airborne Sensor Facility (ASF) at Ames Research Center maintains a suite of facility remote sensing instruments that support multi-disciplinary research in the NASA Earth Science Division. These instruments are maintained at the ASF, and are regularly characterized and calibrated in its radiometric calibration laboratory. This facility specializes in radiometric calibration and spectral characterization of passive optical airborne sensors that have moderate to high spectral resolution from 0.35um – 14um. In the past, this calibration facility has focused on scanning instruments with large apertures and narrow instantaneous fields of view such as the eMAS-scanner (the enhanced MODIS Airborne Simulator - formerly MAS) and MASTER (the MODIS/ASTER Airborne Simulator.) More recently, ASF’s capabilities have been expanded to support wide field of view staring systems, such as pushbroom Offner spectrometers like the new facility instrument eMAS-HSI, which has a 50 degree cross track field of view. These calibration facilities are available to compare and calibrate other instruments from partner organizations in government and academia.