The AVIRIS Instrument

340 kg mass

Aircraft supplied power

17 Mbps data rate through 1994, 20.4 Mbps from 1995.

10 bit data encoding through 1994, 12 bit from 1995.

Silicon (Si) detectors for the visible range, and indium-antimonide (InSb) detectors for the near infrared.

"Whisk broom" scanning

12 Hz scanning rate

Liquid Nitrogen (LN2) cooled detectors

10 nm nominal channel bandwidth, calibrated to within 1 nm

30 degrees total field of view (full 614 samples)

1 milliradian Instantaneous Field Of View (IFOV, one sample), calibrated to within 0.1 mrad

S-VHS ST-120 cassette tape recording medium

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Contact information

Mail to:

AVIRIS Data Facility

M/S 169-315

Jet Propulsion Laboratory

4800 Oak Grove Dr.

Pasadena, California 91109

(818) 354-5366

Ordering AVIRIS Data:

avorders@ophelia.jpl.nasa.gov

Questions about AVIRIS:

question@ophelia.jpl.nasa.gov

Technical queries about AVIRIS data and quicklooks:

av_tech@ophelia.jpl.nasa.gov

Comments and suggestions for improving this documentation:

av_tech@ophelia.jpl.nasa.gov