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AN: V11D-0812    [Abstracts]
TI: Airborne Radiative Transfer Spectral Scanner: A new airborne hyperspectral imager for hyperspectral volcano observations
AU: * Jitsufuchi, T
EM: jitu@bosai.go.jp
AF: National Research Institute for Earth Science and Disaster Prevention, 3-1 Tennodai, Tsukuba,Ibaraki, 305-0006, Japan
AB: In 2006, a new airborne hyperspectral imager, the Airborne Radiative Transfer Spectral Scanner (ARTS), was developed for hyperspectral volcano observations. ARTS provides hyperspectral images to support developing algorithms for the remote sensing of the geothermal distribution, the ash fall areas, and the volcanic gasses columnar content from the air. ARTS will be used mainly to assess volcanic activity and to mitigate volcanic disasters. ARTS is a pushbroom imaging spectrometer covering wavelengths from 380 to 2450nm and 8000 to 11500nm with 421 bands. The ARTS imaging spectrometer consists of three sensor head units (SHUs). These SHUs are the visible - near infrared (VNIR) SHU, the shortwave infrared (SWIR) SHU, and the long-wave infrared (LWIR) SHU. These sensor head units operate as a line scanner in the pushbroom mode from an aircraft. The VNIR SHU covers wavelengths from 380 to 1050nm with 288 spectrum bands. The field of view (FOV) is 40 degrees, and the image of this SHU is 1500 pixels wide cross-track, making the instantaneous field of view (IFOV) 0.49mrad. The SWIR SHU covers wavelengths from 900 to 2450nm with 101 spectrum bands. The LWIR SHU covers wavelengths from 8000 to 11500nm with 32 spectrum bands. SWIR SHU and LWIR SHU have FOVs of 40 degrees and 600-pixel-wide images cross-track, giving them an IFOV of 1.2mrad. ARTS has precise position and attitude measurement systems (GPS/IMU). Direct, accurate geo-corrections of each SHU image can be made using the GPS/IMU systems. ARTS will be used for the operational volcano observation beginning in 2008. We are now validating the in-flight performance of this sensor. In this study, we describe the ARTS optical, electrical, and mechanical systems; its data acquisition and system design; and present some preliminary in- flight performance test results obtained from measurements acquired aboard the Beechcraft King Air B200 aircraft. The validation results indicate that the geo-correction accuracy is typically less than a 2-pixel difference (RMS) for each SHU, and there was the good agreement between the predicted radiance at the sensor and the measured radiance at the sensor at a flight altitude of 1000m AGL. We expect that ARTS will be a well-calibrated instrument for assessing volcanic activity.
DE: 8419 Volcano monitoring (7280)
DE: 8485 Remote sensing of volcanoes
DE: 8488 Volcanic hazards and risks
DE: 8494 Instruments and techniques
SC: Volcanology, Geochemistry, Petrology [V]
MN: 2007 Fall Meeting