BOULDER, Colo., Aug. 18, 2020 /PRNewswire/ -- In partnership with
NASA, Ball Aerospace is demonstrating the operational Landsat
program's next generation technology, having successfully completed
the final airborne science flights of two compact, well-calibrated
NASA Sustainable Land Imaging (SLI) instruments – the Reduced
Envelope Multispectral Imager - Airborne (REMI-AB) and the Compact
Hyperspectral Prism Spectrometer - Airborne (CHPS-AB).
Designed to demonstrate improved Landsat mission performance in
compact instrument packages, the REMI-AB and CHPS-AB instruments
have evolved over nearly four years of development, testing and
airborne science flights to demonstrate technologies for potential
use in the Landsat Program. The Landsat program is a series of
Earth-observing satellite missions jointly managed by NASA and the
USGS.
"Working closely with the Land Imaging community, we
successfully demonstrated the capabilities of the compact REMI-AB
and CHPS-AB instruments," said Dr. Makenzie
Lystrup, vice president and general manager, Civil Space,
Ball Aerospace. "In our commitment to science at any scale, we
continue to innovate new ways to deliver high performing technology
in increasingly compact packages."
At a more than 30 percent reduction in size from the Ball-built
Operational Land Imager (OLI) currently flying on Landsat 8, the
spaceborne CHPS would deliver visible through shortwave infrared
data while enabling new science applications such as mineral
mapping and categorizing plant species. The spaceborne REMI would
yield visible through thermal data that is equivalent to data
currently delivered by Landsat's OLI and Thermal Infrared Sensor
(TIRS) instruments, while being less than half the size of the
combined instruments. These technology demonstrations would enable
a flexible and sustainable next generation architecture for the
Landsat program.
Ball Aerospace has more than six decades of experience providing
leading-edge systems, delivering instruments that span the
electromagnetic spectrum for a wide range of government and
commercial applications to help predict the weather, map air
quality and monitor the Earth's environment. Ball Aerospace has
contributed to the continuity of the current Landsat program with
the Ball-built OLI flying on the Landsat 8 satellite and having
delivered the OLI-2 instrument for Landsat 9.
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About Ball Corporation
Ball Corporation (NYSE: BLL) supplies innovative, sustainable
aluminum packaging solutions for beverage, personal care and
household products customers, as well as aerospace and other
technologies and services primarily for the U.S. government. Ball
Corporation and its subsidiaries employ more than 18,300 people
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