Chapter 14 AVIRIS and Related 21st Century Imaging Spectrometers for Earth and Space Science Robert O. Green, Jet Propulsion Laboratory, California Institute of Technology Contents Introduction . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . AVIRIS and the Imaging Spectroscopy Measurement . . . . . . . . . | Chapter 14 AVIRIS and Related 21st Century Imaging Spectrometers for Earth and Space Science Robert O. Green Jet Propulsion Laboratory California Institute of Technology Contents Introduction .336 AVIRIS and the Imaging Spectroscopy Measurement .338 The AVIRIS Imaging Spectrometer Characteristics .339 The AVIRIS Measured Signal .342 Range of Investigations Pursued with AVIRIS Measurements . 345 The AVIRIS Data Archive and Selected Imaging Spectroscopy Analysis Algorithms .346 Objectives and Characteristics of a Spaceborne Imaging Spectrometer for the Moon .348 Objectives of the Moon Mineralogy Mapper .348 Characteristics of theM3 Imaging Spectrometer .348 Prospects for the M3 Imaging Spectrometer Data Objectives and Characteristics of a Future Spaceborne Imaging Spectrometer for the Earth .352 Objectives of an Earth Imaging Spectrometer for Measuring the State of Terrestrial and Aquatic Ecosystems .352 Characteristics of an Ecosystem Focused Earth Imaging Spectrometer .353 Roles for High-Performance Computing .354 Acknowledgments .356 References .356 Imaging spectroscopy also known as hyperspectral imaging is a field of scientific investigation based upon the measurement and analysis of spectra measured as images. The human eye qualitatively measures three colors blue green and red in the visible portion of the electromagnetic spectrum when viewing the environment. The human eye-brain combination is a powerful observing system however it generally provides a non-quantitative perspective of the local environment. Imaging spectrometer 335 2008 by Taylor Francis Group LLC 336 High-Performance Computing in Remote Sensing instruments typically measure hundreds of colors spectral channels across a much wider spectral range. These hundreds of spectral channels are recorded quantitatively as spectra for every spatial element in an image. The measured spectra provide the .
