First Results of the DESIS Imaging Spectrometer On Board the International Space Station

Kurzfassung

DESIS (DLR Earth Sensing Imaging Spectrometer) is a space-based hyperspectral sensor currently installed and operated in the International Space Station (ISS). The instrument is the result of the collaboration between the German Aerospace Center (DLR) and Teledyne Brown Engineering (TBE). DLR has developed the instrument and the software for data processing, while TBE provides the Multi-User System for Earth Sensing (MUSES), where DESIS is installed, and the infrastructure for operation. After finishing the commissioning phase, DESIS data will be available to TBE commercial customers as well as DLR scientific users and collaborators. We present here an overview of the DESIS instrument and processing chain and the first results obtained during the commissioning phase of the instrument.