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37. Working with EO-1 ALI Data________________________________________________________________The NASA EO-1 (Earth Observing-1) satellite was launched on November 21,2000 from Vandenberg Air Force Base, California. The satellite was designedas a prototype for testing new multispectral and hyperspectral hardware conceptsfor the next generation Landsat platform. EO-1 carries two sensors. TheAdvanced Land Imager (ALI) is a multispectral sensor sampling a spectrum thatranges from 0.43 to 2.40 microns. Its bands resemble those of Landsat in manyrespects. Hyperion is a hyperspectral sensor, meaning that its bandscontinuously span the same spectrum from 0.43 to 2.40 microns. Thecharacteristics of the two sensor suites are summarized in the following table:Mode:Spectral bands (mkm):Hyperion0.43-2.40(220 bands)ALIMultispectral0.433-0.4530.450-0.5150.525-0.6050.630-0.6900.775-0.8050.845-0.8901.200-1.3001.550-1.7502.080-2.350Spatial resolution: 30 m 30 m 10 mSwatch Width:Data transmission rate:Radiometric resolution:Revisit time:7.7 km105 Mbits/sec16 bits per pixel16 days (depending on altitude)Panchromatic0.480-0.690EO-1 ALI data is offered free of charge at the USGS Earth Explorer and GLOVISwebsites. The data may be accessed by selecting the EO-1 ALI check box andsearching the UI map. Although about 60,000 ALI images have been capturedand archived, global coverage is far from complete. Some regions (for examplepopulated areas of North America and Europe) are fairly well covered withmultiple scenes of the same location. Other areas are covered very sparsely.This is a major and serious drawback for this data set.101

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