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LISTING OF INSTRUMENTS AVAILABLE FOR AIRBORNE REMOTE SENSING

This page contains a listing of instruments that are currently available for airborne remote sensing with an emphasis on hyperspectral imaging instruments.

Click on the general categories to see the whole page, and on the specific instrument names to go directly to those instruments.

                         Key to Maturity Ratings
 

Not Rated

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Engineering Model/Prototype 

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Flight Tested System 

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Operational Research System

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Commercially Available System 

*****Validated Commercially Available System 



Cameras

Note: Entries in this category are limited as most attention has been paid to the multi- and hyperspectral instruments

 

  • AA456 Airborne Digital Camera (ADC) is a two-dimensional framing device with approximately 2000 pixels in each axis ****
  • AA497 Airborne Multispectral Digital Camera is a two-dimensional framing device with approximately 2000 pixels in each axis. Optical filters on a movable wheel provide spectral images
  • ADS40 Airborne Digital Sensor high performance digital sensor, capable of delivering photogrammetric accuracy and coverage as well as multispectral data. ****
  • Digital Modular Camera comprises a variable number of synchronously operating array cameras that can be built together in different configurations
  • DIMAC (Digital Modular Aerial Camera) A 5440 x 4080 (effective) Pixel Digital Sensor ****
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    DSS Digital Sensor System 4092 x 4079 sensor with a choice of 35 and 45 mm lenses, shutter speed 1/125 – 1/4000
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    E-O Framing Cameras List from Recon/Optical, Inc.
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    JAS 150 five panchromatic CCD lines capture photogrammetric and 3D information, while four lines capture data in the red, green, blue and near-infrared band
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    KRb 8/24 is a microprocessor controlled, state-of-the-art camera system whth wide-angle panoramic coverage
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    The KS-153 is a high cycle rate, pulse operated, framing camera
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    High Speed CMOS Cameras List from Photron
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    RC30 Aerial Camera System from the Wild/Leica RC range by LH Systems *****
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    The Vexcel UltraCam-D large format digital aerial camera delivers digital aerial photography


 

Lidars

 

 

  • ALTM (Laser Terrain Mapper) *****
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    ATM (Airborne Topographic Mapper) Single return, high-accuracy laser altimeter for topographic mapping ***
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    CLS (Cloud Lidar System) measures cloud backscatter at 1.064 and 0.532 microns ***
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    LASAL (Large Aperture Scanning Airborne Lidar) (Status Unknown)
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    LVIS (Laser Vegetation Imaging Sensor) Airborne Surface Lidar (Status Unknown)
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    PAS (Pilot Alert System) Light Detection and Ranging Lidar *****
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    RAMS Laser altimeter, relative position GPS, Inertial Measurement Unit (IMU), and large format digital camera
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    RASCAL (RAster SCanning Airborne Lidar) Single return scanning laser altimeter **
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    SABL (Scanning Aerosol Backscatter Lidar) measures cloud backscatter at 1.064 and 0.532 microns **
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    SHOALS (lidar bathymeter) *****
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    Skyborne Tunable lidar system for detection of a wide variety of air pollutants ****
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    SLICER (Scanning Lidar Imager of Canopies by Echo Recovery) Multiple return vegetation canopy lidar ***

 


Microwave

 

  • AIMR (Airborne Imaging Microwave Radar) measures surface and atmospheric radiation at 37 and 90 GHz ***
  • PSR (Polarimetric Scanning Radiometer) obtains polarimetric microwave emission imagery of oceans, land, ice, clouds, and precipitation


 

Multi- and Hyperspectral Imagers

 

  • 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. **

 


Radar List

 

  • Aero-Sensing Radarsysteme GmbH
  • ARMAR Airborne Rain Mapping Radar developed to support future spaceborne rain radar systems
  • CARABAS (Coherent All Radio Band Sensing) high-performance airborne synthetic aperture radar (SAR)
  • GEOVATION GROUND-PENETRATING RADAR detection of small, shallow utility lines to the mapping of geologic features to depths of 50-ft. or more.
  • GeoSAR: Geographic Synthetic Aperture Radar ** (also http://www.consrv.ca.gov/radar/geosar/ )
  • IFSAR utilizes two standard antennas, the resultant image contains information on the local topography.
  • METRATEK WINSAR high-performance interferometric SAR ****
  • The Scanning Radar Altimeter (SRA) ***
  • SLAR (Side-looking Airborne Radar)
  • STAR-3i system consists of two X-band radar antennae mounted in a LearJet36

 

 

Thermal Imagers

 

  • FLIR Systems ThermaCAM SC3000™ superior thermal sensitivity, broad dynamic range Quantum Well Infrared Photo detector Focal Plane Array.
  • IMSS The mid-wave infrared IMSS has a spectral resolution of 0.01 microns and over 200 spectral bins between 3 to 5 microns
  • Indigo Systems The Merlin® camera family provides for InSb, QWIP, InGaAs, and microbolometer focal plane arrays.
  • Indigo Systems new Alpha NIR with VisGaAs sensor provides a 400 nm cut-on wavelength
  • Infrared Solutions IR-320™ Thermal Imager
  • IRCON quality real-time video temperature representation using digital camera with uncooled focal plane technology.
  • Radiance HS (RHS) Camera spectral response from 3 to 5 microns, and 8 to 12 microns.
  • Sierra Pacific Innovations IR camera system, InSb 256 high resolution IR
  • VARIOSCAN Scanning - principle with an increased number of pixels



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This page was last modified on 05 June, 2008