Hyperspectral digital imagery collection experiment (HYDICE)

In order to advance the state-of-the-art in the collection of imaging spectroscopy, the U.S. Navy Space and Warfare Systems Command sponsored the development and fabrication of a new generation, well calibrated hyperspectral imaging spectrometer. Called the Hyperspectral Digital Imagery Collection Experiment (HYDICE), the sensor was built by Hughes Danbury Optical Systems, Danbury, Conn., delivered for integration into the Environmental Institute of Michigan's (ERIM) CV-580 aircraft in December 1994, tested and characterized between January and June 1995, and has since been involved in several airborne data collection experiments. In this paper, the HYDICE Program Office organization, sensor specifications, airborne characterization results, and a summary of the results of the most recent data exploitation and analyses are presented.