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CNR LARA project, Italy: Airborne laboratory for environmental researchThe increasing interest for the environmental problems and the study of the impact on the environment due to antropic activity produced an enhancement of remote sensing applications. The Italian National Research Council (CNR) established a new laboratory for airborne hyperspectral imaging, the LARA Project (Laboratorio Aero per Ricerche Ambientali - Airborne Laboratory for Environmental Research), equipping its airborne laboratory, a CASA-212, mainly with the Daedalus AA5000 MIVIS (Multispectral Infrared and Visible Imaging Spectrometer) instrument. MIVIS's channels, spectral bandwidths, and locations are chosen to meet the needs of scientific research for advanced applications of remote sensing data. MIVIS can make significant contributions to solving problems in many diverse areas such as geologic exploration, land use studies, mineralogy, agricultural crop studies, energy loss analysis, pollution assessment, volcanology, forest fire management and others. The broad spectral range and the many discrete narrow channels of MIVIS provide a fine quantization of spectral information that permits accurate definition of absorption features from a variety of materials, allowing the extraction of chemical and physical information of our environment. The availability of such a hyperspectral imager, that will operate mainly in the Mediterranean area, at the present represents a unique opportunity for those who are involved in environmental studies and land-management to collect systematically large-scale and high spectral-spatial resolution data of this part of the world. Nevertheless, MIVIS deployments will touch other parts of the world, where a major interest from the international scientific community is present.
Document ID
19950027314
Acquisition Source
Legacy CDMS
Document Type
Conference Paper
Authors
Bianchi, R. (Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche Rome, Italy)
Cavalli, R. M. (Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche Rome, Italy)
Fiumi, L. (Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche Rome, Italy)
Marino, C. M. (Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche Rome, Italy)
Pignatti, S. (Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche Rome, Italy)
Date Acquired
September 6, 2013
Publication Date
January 23, 1995
Publication Information
Publication: JPL, Summaries of the Fifth Annual JPL Airborne Earth Science Workshop. Volume 1: AVIRIS Workshop
Subject Category
Environment Pollution
Accession Number
95N33735
Distribution Limits
Public
Copyright
Work of the US Gov. Public Use Permitted.

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