On-Board Cryospheric Change Detection By The Autonomous Sciencecraft Experiment

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Dec 2004

adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=2004agufm.c31a0312d&link_type=abstract

American Geophysical Union, Fall Meeting 2004, abstract #C31A-0312

Physics

5462 Polar Regions, 5464 Remote Sensing, 1845 Limnology, 1863 Snow And Ice (1827)

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The Autonomous Sciencecraft Experiment (ASE) is operating on-board Earth Observing - 1 (EO-1) with the Hyperion hyper-spectral visible/near-IR spectrometer. ASE science activities include autonomous monitoring of cryopsheric changes, triggering the collection of additional data when change is detected and filtering of null data such as no change or cloud cover. This would have application to the study of cryospheres on Earth, Mars and the icy moons of the outer solar system. A cryosphere classification algorithm, in combination with a previously developed cloud algorithm [1] has been tested on-board ten times from March through August 2004. The cloud algorithm correctly screened out three scenes with total cloud cover, while the cryosphere algorithm detected alpine snow cover in the Rocky Mountains, lake thaw near Madison, Wisconsin, and the presence and subsequent break-up of sea ice in the Barrow Strait of the Canadian Arctic. Hyperion has 220 bands ranging from 400 to 2400 nm, with a spatial resolution of 30 m/pixel and a spectral resolution of 10 nm. Limited on-board memory and processing speed imposed the constraint that only partially processed Level 0.5 data with dark image subtraction and gain factors applied, but not full radiometric calibration. In addition, a maximum of 12 bands could be used for any stacked sequence of algorithms run for a scene on-board. The cryosphere algorithm was developed to classify snow, water, ice and land, using six Hyperion bands at 427, 559, 661, 864, 1245 and 1649 nm. Of these, only 427 nm does overlap with the cloud algorithm. The cloud algorithm was developed with Level 1 data, which introduces complications because of the incomplete calibration of SWIR in Level 0.5 data, including a high level of noise in the 1377 nm band used by the cloud algorithm. Development of a more robust cryosphere classifier, including cloud classification specifically adapted to Level 0.5, is in progress for deployment on EO-1 as part of continued ASE operations. [1] Griffin, M.K. et al., Cloud Cover Detection Algorithm For EO-1 Hyperion Imagery, SPIE 17, 2003.

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