Airborne Ocean Color Imager

Status

Status
Retired
Operated By
PI

The AOCI is a high altitude multispectral scanner built by Daedalus Enterprises, designed for oceanographic remote sensing. It provides 10-bit digitization of eight bands in the visible/near-infrared region of the spectrum, plus two 8-bit bands in the near and thermal infrared.

Instrument Type
Spectrometer
Measurements
Imagery
Aircraft
ER-2 - AFRC
Point(s) of Contact
James D. Jacobson Jr.
(POC; Mgr)
Range of Measurement
Ground
Instrument Pointing
Cross-track scanning
Swath Width
50.00 m (at 19.8 km)
Measurement Wavelengths
Notes
Total field of view: 85°
Instantaneous field of view: 2.5 mrad

 

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