ALTM (Laser Terrain Mapper) *****
ATM (Airborne Topographic Mapper) Single return, high-accuracy laser altimeter for topographic mapping ***
CLS (Cloud Lidar System) measures cloud backscatter at 1.064 and 0.532 microns ***
LASAL (Large Aperture Scanning Airborne Lidar) (Status Unknown)
LVIS (Laser Vegetation Imaging Sensor) Airborne Surface Lidar (Status Unknown)
PAS (Pilot Alert System) Light Detection and Ranging Lidar *****
RAMS Laser altimeter, relative position GPS, Inertial Measurement Unit (IMU), and large format digital camera
RASCAL (RAster SCanning Airborne Lidar) Single return scanning laser altimeter **
SABL (Scanning Aerosol Backscatter Lidar) measures cloud backscatter at 1.064 and 0.532 microns **
SHOALS (lidar bathymeter) *****
Skyborne Tunable lidar system for detection of a wide variety of air pollutants ****
SLICER (Scanning Lidar Imager of Canopies by Echo Recovery) Multiple return vegetation canopy lidar ***
AAHIS general-purpose, high-resolution, passive hyperspectral sensor *****
ADAR acquires digital photographs in four configurable spectral bands ****
ABS Airborne Bispectral Scanner. Digital Performance - 8-bit and 12-bit resolution Two channel scanning - thermal IR plus your choice of one of three alternate bands ****
AHI 256 bands in the 8-12 micron atmospheric window (LWIR or thermal infrared band) and 3 color bands in the visible.
AA3505 Bispectral Scanner System Ultraviolet 0.32 - 0.38 µm <0.06, Infrared 8.5 - 12.5 µm <0.2 NETD ****
AHS-75 Airborne Hyperspectral Scanner Up to 20 bands .45 - 1.05µ, One band: 1.6µ, Up to 16 bands 2 - 2.5µ, Up to 7 bands 3 - 5µ, Up to 6 bands 8 - 13µ ****
AHS-160 Airborne Hyperspectral Scanner Up to 20 bands .45 - 1.05µ, One band 1.6µ, Up to 42 bands 2 - 2.5µ, Up to 7 bands 3 - 5µ, Up to 10 bands 8 - 13µ ****
AMS Airborne Multispectral Scanner. Digital Performance - 8-bit and 12-bit resolution Ten Spectral Channels ****
AIRCAM ™ multispectral imaging system ****
AISA 430 to 900 nm, 288 spectral pixels hyperspectral imager with integrated GPS/INS *****
AISA + 400 to 970 nm, 244 spectral pixels, 512 spatial pixels hyperspectral imager with integrated GPS/INS *****
AISA Eagle 400 to 970 nm, 244 spectral pixels, 1024 spatial pixels hyperspectral imager with integrated GPS/INS *****
AISA HAWK 1000 to 2400 nm, 254 spectral pixels, 320 spatial pixels hyperspectral imager with integrated GPS/INS *****
APEX Airborne PRISM Experiment. 400 - 2500 nm < 1.5 Spectral sampling interval
AVIRIS 400 to 2500 nm in 224 channels hyperspectral imager ***
AVIS The Airborne Visible and Infrared imaging Spectrometer [.pdf file only]?
CASI 550 (Compact Airborne Spectrographic Imager) 400nm to 1000nm (adjustable) 2.2nm bandwidth hyperspectral imager with GPS/INS and Calibration options *****
CASI 1500 (Compact Airborne Spectrographic Imager) 1500 pixels across the field of view *****
CHRIS (Compact High Resolution Imaging Spectrometer) 400 nm to 1050 nm in 63 spectral bands ***
GER (Geophysical & Environmental Research Corporation) see Spectra Vista
HYDICE 210 spectral bands 400 - 2500 nm ***
HyperCam ™ Fourier transform hyperspectral imager airborne instrument
HyMap VIS,NIR, SWIR, MIR and TIR 100 - 200 channels gyro-stabilised platform ****
HYPERION 220 bands
HySpex(TM) line of hyperspectral cameras are a result of the knowledge and experience accumulated through more than a decade (starting in 1995) of research activities in the field of imaging spectroscopy at NEO.
IMSS The visible IMSS spectral resolution of 1 nm and over 400 channels between 400 and 800 nanometers ****
MAS 50 multispectral bands at 16-bit resolution (see also MASTER) ****
MASTER 0.4 - 13 microns, 50 bands, 716 pixels ****
NovaSol 1100 Series - Visible Spectral Range 400 or 450 to 900 or 950 nm
NovaSol 1200 Series - Short Wave Infrared 900 to 2450 nm
NovaSol 1600 Series Short Wave Infrared 900 to 2350 nm
PHILLS (Portable Hyperspectral Imager for Low Light Spectroscopy) 250 to 1024 with 0.5 to 3 nm resolution ***
PROBE-1 0.4 to 2.45 nm, 3 - 5 nm and 8 - 10 nm in 128 bands ****
ProVision Technologies 12 bit digital camera 1024 spectral bands ranging from 450nm to 900nm. **
ROSIS (Reflective Optics System Imaging Spectrometer) 430 - 850 nm in 84 channels ***
SASI (Shortwave Infrared Airborne Spectrographic Sensor) 900 nm to 2500 nm ****
SOC-700 640 by 480 pixel image with 120 bands from 400 to 800 nm ****
SpecTIR VIS/NIR 256 spatial in 252 channels ****
SpectraView 4 - band and panchromatic and SW-IR & LW-IR bands up to 4096 x 7168 pixels with integrated GPS-INS ****
Spectra Vista Former GER line of airborne scanners
TEEMS (Texaco Energy and Environmental Multispectral Imaging Spectrometer) Proprietary hyperspectral imager
VASIS Combination of CAMIS and C2VIFIS systems (above)
The VNIR-20 uses a proprietary HyperPixelTM Array (HPATM) to capture spectral and spatial information in one instantaneous video frame
The VNIR-90 spectrometer uses a proprietary HyperPixelTM Array (HPATM) to capture spectral and spatial information in one instantaneous video frame
The VNIR 100E 12 bit digital camera 1024 spectral bands ranging from 450nm to 900nm. **