INS 7-1 - Let's brainstorm about a hyperspectral satellite mission!

Tuesday, August 16, 2022

3:30 PM – 5:00 PM EDT

Location: 520A

Presenting Author(s)

KD

Kyla M. Dahlin

Michigan State University
East Lansing, Michigan, United States

Co-author(s)

SS

Shawn P. Serbin

Brookhaven National Laboratory
Upton, New York, United States
KH

K Fred Huemmrich

University of Maryland baltimore county
BP

Benjamin Poulter

NASA Goddard Space Flight Center
Greenbelt, MD, United States
PT

Philip Townsend

University of Wisconsin-Madison, Wisconsin, United States
DS

David Schimel

NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory
Pasadena, California, United States

The NASA-led hyperspectral imaging and thermal infrared satellite mission, ‘Surface Biology and Geology’ (SBG), expected to launch in 2027, will allow ecologists and earth scientists to monitor a host of key terrestrial and coastal ecosystem properties across space and time. Together with numerous other upcoming missions and sensors currently installed on the International Space Station there will be many opportunities for diverse, near real-time global spectroscopic remote sensing. In this introductory talk we will describe in more detail some of these missions and their current status and pose questions to the group (presenters and audience) about what they would like to see for the future of ecological remote sensing.

We hope that this discussion leads to more involvement of the ecological community in the development of SBG. We welcome participation - please go to https://sbg.jpl.nasa.gov/ to learn more and/or reach out to one of the organizers of this session!