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AVIRIS Moffett Field Image Cube
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| | This "image cube" from JPL's Airborne Visible/Infrared Imaging Spectrometer (AVIRIS) shows the volume of data returned by the instrument. AVIRIS acquired the data on August 20, 1992 when it was flown on a NASA ER-2 plane at an altitude of 20,000 meters (65,000 feet) over Moffett Field, California, at the southern end of the San Francisco Bay. | |
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The top of the cube is a false-color image made to accentuate the
structure in the water and evaporation ponds on the right. Also
visible on the top of the cube is the Moffett Field airport.
The sides of the cube are slices showing the edges of the top in
all 224 of the AVIRIS spectral channels. The tops of the sides
are in the visible part of the spectrum (wavelength of 400
nanometers), and the bottoms are in the infrared (2,500
nanometers). The sides are pseudo-color, ranging from black and
blue (low response) to red (high response).
Of particular interest is the small region of high response in
the upper right corner of the larger side. This response is in
the red part of the visible spectrum (about 700 nanometers), and
is due to the presence of 1-centimeter-long (half-inch) red brine
shrimp in the evaporation pond.
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Last Updated: November 11, 2010
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