The Thermal Infrared Instrument on the HyspIRI Mission: a key measurement for Wildfire and Water Use Ecosystems Related Research
Simon
John
Hook, NASA/JPL, simon.j.hook@jpl.nasa.gov
(Presenting)
Michael
Abrams, NASA/JPL, michael.j.abrams@jpl.nasa.gov
Martha
Anderson, USDA, martha.anderson@ars.usda.gov
James
Crowley, USGS, crowley@usgs.gov
Mariana
Eneva, Imageair Inc., meneva@san.rr.com
Louis
Giglio, SSAI, louis.giglio-1@nasa.gov
Fred
Kruse, Horizon GeoImaging, kruse@hgimaging.com
Dimitar
Ousounov, GSFC, ousounov@core2.gsfc.nasa.gov
Anupma
Prakash, UAF, prakash@gi.alaska.edu
Dale
Quattrochi, MSFC, dale.quattrochi@nasa.gov
Vince
Realmuto, NASA/JPL, vincent.j.realmuto@jpl.nasa.gov
David
Roy, SDSU, david.roy@sdstate.edu
Paul
Silver, Carnegie Institution, silver@dtm.ciw.edu
Robert
Wright, University of Hawaii, wright@higp.hawaii.edu
Abstract
In 2007 the National Research Council (NRC) released the results from the first Earth Science Decadal Survey (DS) entitled: Earth Science and Applications from Space: National Imperatives for the Next Decade and Beyond. As part of the DS the NRC recommended fifteen missions to be implemented by NASA including one joint mission between NASA and NOAA. These missions were arranged in three groups based on launch timeframe (2010-2013; 2013-2016 and 2016-2020). The second group included the HyspIRI mission. The HyspIRI mission includes a thermal infrared (TIR) multispectral scanner and a hyperspectral visible short wave infrared spectrometer. The minimum requirements for the TIR instrument were 5 bands in the 8-12 um region, <90m spatial resolution and a temporal revisit of 6 days. In order to assess the feasibility of such an instrument as well as any additional capabilities that would enhance the mission NASA Headquarters formed a Science Working Group (SWG). Using the requirements set forth in the DS the SWG developed a credible instrument concept for a whiskbroom system with 8 bands (1 band in the 3-5 um region and 7 bands in the 8-12 um region), 45m spatial resolution and a temporal revisit of 5 days.
The SWG also identified a set of 5 key science areas, each with a set of questions that data from the instrument would be used to address as well as science traceability matrices which tied the science question to instrument performance requirements. The science questions were in the areas of 1) Volcanoes, 2) Wildfires, 3) Water Use and Availability, 4) Urbanization and 5) Land Surface Composition and Change.
Areas 2 through 5 include an Ecosystems component, in particular areas 2) and 3). This presentation provides additional details on the instrument specifications, science traceability matrices as well as examples of how these data will be used to address the science questions in the 5 key science areas.
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