Seminar Series: GLIMR Instrument Scientist, Raytheon Space and Airborne Systems by Dr. Jeff Puschell

Event Date: 9/17/2019

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Dr. Jeff Puschell, GLIMR Instrument Scientist, Raytheon Space and Airborne Systems

Time: 12 pm - 1 pm 

Date: September 17, 2019

Steinman Hall - Room T105

The City College of New York

ABSTRACT

The Geostationary Littoral Imaging and Monitoring Radiometer (GLIMR) mission selected by NASA for Earth Venture Instrument 5 (EVI-5) will answer fundamental science questions on how physical processes varying on timescales from hours to days impact rates and fluxes of materials within and between aquatic coastal ecosystems and how these rates and fluxes affect formation, magnitude and trajectory of HABs that impact ecosystem and human health. GLIMR, led by PI Joe Salisbury at the University of New Hampshire, includes the world’s first hyperspectral imager in geostationary orbit (GEO), to be developed by Raytheon. GLIMR’s instrument design was carefully optimized to provide radiometric and spatial and spectral sampling performance required to advance coastal water science using mature (TRL 6+) technology. GLIMR’s concept of operation supports well characterized, high SNR hyperspectroradiometry of multiple coastal water sites across the full Earth disk with repeat coverage that achieves GLIMR science objectives. This talk describes performance and design for the GLIMR instrument.