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EO-1 Hyperion - Status update, lessons learned and future directions

Stephen G. Ungar, NASA/GSFC, stephen.ungar@nasa.gov (Presenting)
Elizabeth M. Middleton, NASA/GSFC, elizabeth.m.middleton@nasa.gov (Presenting)
Lawrence Ong, NASA/GSFC, lawrence.ong@nasa.gov (Presenting)
Petya K. E. Campbell, NASA/GSFC, pcampbel@pop900.gsfc.nasa.gov

The Earth Observing One (EO-1) Mission is in its eight year of operations. It was launched in November, 2000 with the goals to enable the development of effective hardware and technology for meeting the Earth science mission needs in the 21st century. From the start it was recognized that a key criteria for evaluating EO-1s technology performance and outlining future science requirements is the ability of the technology/strategy to characterize terrestrial surface state and processes and the EO-1s Science Validation Team conducted a range of investigations to ascertain how well the employed technology/strategy served to enhance the extraction of scientifically viable information.

EO-1 Hyperion have participated in a broad range investigations, contributing toward the understanding in areas such as forestry, agriculture, invasive species, desertification, land-use, vulcanization, fire detection, homeland security, natural and anthropogenic hazards and disaster assessments, and have provided calibration/characterization for a variety of instruments on EOS platforms. Investigators engaged in NASA’s Terrestrial Ecology, Carbon Science, Land Use Change and other programs using EO-1 Hyperion have achieved results with accuracies far exceeding those reached with the current space borne fleet of multispectral sensors. Resent scientific findings using EO-1 Hyperion will be presented, and some of the lessons learned and future directions with impact for new Earth Observing products or strategies for future missions will be addressed.


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