The Hyperspectral Thermal Emissions Spectrometer (HyTES) is an airborne pushbroom imaging spectrometer developed by the Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL). It was created to support the Hyperspectral Infrared Imager (HyspIRI) missions and has flown in several research missions since 2012. HyTES provides high spatial and spectral resolution measurements of brightness temperature, emissivity, and land surface temperature. It operates across 256 spectral channels between 7.5 and 12 µm wavelengths and has an integration time of 30 ms. HyTES has a horizontal resolution of 7 m and a swath width of 3.6 km at a flight altitude of 4 km. HyTES was funded through NASA’s Earth Science Technology Office (ESTO) Instrument Incubator Program (IIP).


Instrument Details
- Spectrometer/Radiometer
- Earth Science > Land Surface > Surface Thermal Properties > Land Surface TemperatureEarth Science > Atmosphere > Atmospheric Radiation > EmissivityEarth Science > Spectral/engineering > Infrared Wavelengths > Brightness Temperature
- Land Surface, Troposphere
- 30 ms
- 7 m
- 25-40 THz
- https://doi.org/10.1109/AERO.2011.5747394
Simon Hook, Bjorn Eng
Simon Hook
Jet Propulsion Laboratory
NASA
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