The Spectral Ocean Color Imager (SPOC) – An Adjustable Multispectral Imager

Presenter Information

David L. Cotten, University of Georgia
Nicholas Neel, University of Georgia
Deepak Mishra, University of Georgia
Marguerite Madden, University of Georgia
Caleb Adams, University of Georgia
Susanne Ullrich, University of Georgia
Adrian Burd, University of Georgia
Malcolm Adams, University of Georgia
Kaitlyn Summey, University of Georgia
Casper Versteeg, University of Georgia
Jackson Parker, University of Georgia
Fred Beyette, University of Georgia

Session

Session VII: Instruments/Science II

Location

Utah State University, Logan, UT

Abstract

SPOC (SPectral Ocean Color) is a 3U small satellite mission that will use an adjustable multispectral imager to map sensitive coastal regions and off coast water quality of Georgia and beyond. SPOC is being developed by the University of Georgia’s (UGA) Small Satellite Research Laboratory (SSRL) through NASA’s Undergraduate Student Instrument Project (USIP). UGA is working with Cloudland Instruments to develop a small scale (< 1000 >cm3) multispectral imager, ranging from 400-850nm, for Earth science applications which will fly as part of the NASA CubeSat Launch Initiative.

The project is UGA’s first satellite mission and is built by a team of undergraduates from a wide range of backgrounds and supervised by a multidisciplinary team of graduate students and faculty. Development, assembly, testing, and validation of the multispectral imager, as well integrating it into the satellite are all being done in house. At an orbit of 400 km the resulting images will be 90 km x 100 km in size, with a default spatial resolution and spectral resolution of 130 m and 4 nm, respectively.