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Articles | Volume XLII-1/W1
https://doi.org/10.5194/isprs-archives-XLII-1-W1-271-2017
https://doi.org/10.5194/isprs-archives-XLII-1-W1-271-2017
31 May 2017
 | 31 May 2017

DATA PROCESSING FOR THE SPACE-BASED DESIS HYPERSPECTRAL SENSOR

E. Carmona, J. Avbelj, K. Alonso, M. Bachmann, D. Cerra, A. Eckardt, B. Gerasch, L. Graham, B. Günther, U. Heiden, G. Kerr, U. Knodt, D. Krutz, H. Krawcyk, A. Makarau, R. Miller, R. Müller, R. Perkins, and I. Walter

Keywords: Data processing, hyperspectral, ISS, geometric correction, atmospheric correction, rolling shutter

Abstract. The German Aerospace Center (DLR) and Teledyne Brown Engineering (TBE) have established a collaboration to develop and operate a new space-based hyperspectral sensor, the DLR Earth Sensing Imaging Spectrometer (DESIS). DESIS will provide spacebased hyperspectral data in the VNIR with high spectral resolution and near-global coverage. While TBE provides the platform and infrastructure for operation of the DESIS instrument on the International Space Station, DLR is responsible for providing the instrument and the processing software. The DESIS instrument is equipped with novel characteristics for an imaging spectrometer such high spectral resolution (2.55 nm), a mirror pointing unit or a CMOS sensor operated in rolling shutter mode. We present here an overview of the DESIS instrument and its processing chain, emphasizing the effect of the novel characteristics of DESIS in the data processing and final data products. Furthermore, we analyse in more detail the effect of the rolling shutter on the DESIS data and possible mitigation/correction strategies.