Multispectral Thermal Imager mission overview

Paul G. Weber; Brian C. Brock; Alfred J. Garrett; Barham W. Smith; Christoph C. Borel; William B. Clodius; Steven C. Bender; R. Rex Kay; Max L. Decker

doi:10.1117/12.366296

27 October 1999 Multispectral Thermal Imager mission overview

Paul G. Weber, Brian C. Brock, Alfred J. Garrett, Barham W. Smith, Christoph C. Borel, William B. Clodius, Steven C. Bender, R. Rex Kay, Max L. Decker

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Proceedings Volume 3753, Imaging Spectrometry V; (1999) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.366296
Event: SPIE's International Symposium on Optical Science, Engineering, and Instrumentation, 1999, Denver, CO, United States

Abstract

The Multispectral Thermal Imager (MTI) is a research and development project sponsored by the Department of Energy and executed by Sandia and Los Alamos National Laboratories and the Savannah River Technology Center. Other participants include the U.S. Air Force, universities, and many industrial partners. The MTI mission is to demonstrate the efficacy of highly accurate multispectral imaging for passive characterization of industrial facilities and related environmental impacts from space. MTI provides simultaneous data for atmospheric characterization at high spatial resolution. Additionally, MTI has applications to environmental monitoring and other civilian applications. The mission is based in end-to-end modeling of targets, signatures, atmospheric effects, the space sensor, and analysis techniques to form a balanced, self-consistent mission. The MTI satellite nears completion, and is scheduled for launch in late 1999. This paper describes the MTI mission, development of desired system attributes, some trade studies, schedule, and overall plans for data acquisition and analysis. This effort drives the sophisticated payload and advanced calibration systems, which are the overall subject of the first session at this conference, as well as the data processing and some of the analysis tools that will be described in the second segment.

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Paul G. Weber, Brian C. Brock, Alfred J. Garrett, Barham W. Smith, Christoph C. Borel, William B. Clodius, Steven C. Bender, R. Rex Kay, and Max L. Decker "Multispectral Thermal Imager mission overview", Proc. SPIE 3753, Imaging Spectrometry V, (27 October 1999); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.366296

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