Hyper-Spectral Imager in visible and near-infrared band for lunar compositional mapping

[摘要] India ’s first lunar mission,Chandrayaan-1,will have a Hyper-Spectral Imager in the visible and near-infrared spectral bands along with other instruments.The instrument will enable mineralogical mapping of the Moon ’s crust in a large number of spectral channels.The planned Hyper-Spectral Imager will be the first instrument to map the lunar surface with the capability of resolving the spectral region,0.4 to 0.92 𝜇 m in 64 continuous bands with a resolution of better than 15 nm and a spatial resolution of 80 m.Spectral separation will be done using a wedge filter and the image will be mapped onto an area detector.The detector output will be processed in the front-end processor to generate the 64-band data with 12-bit quantization.This paper gives a description of the Hyper-Spectral Imager instrument.

[学科分类] 天文学(综合)

[关键词] Hyper-Spectral Imager;wedge filter;spectral bands;mineral mapping.