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AVIRIS Instrument
- 17 Mbps data rate through 1994, 20.4 Mbps from 1995 to 2004, 16 bit from 2005 onward
- 10 bit data encoding through 1994, 12 bit from 1995
- Silicon (Si) detectors for the visible range, indium gallium arsenide (InGaAr) for the NIR, and indium-antimonide (InSb) detectors for the SWIR
- "Whisk broom" scanning
- 12 Hz scanning rate
- Liquid Nitrogen (LN2) cooled detectors
- 10 nm nominal channel bandwidth, calibrated to within 1 nm
- 34 degrees total field of view (full 677 samples)
- 1 milliradian Instantaneous Field Of View (IFOV, one sample), calibrated to within 0.1 mrad
- 76GB hard disk recording medium

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