Hyperspectral Imager Suite (HISUI) is a Japanese spaceborne imaging spectrometer observing the Earth from International Space Station from 2019. HISUI has acquired more than 200 M km2of hyperspectral images for terrestrial surface. In this presentation, latest examples of geologic and environmental applications of HISUI data such as mineral mapping and methane plume detection.

Hyperspectral Imager Suite (HISUI) was launched in December 2019 and started its operation observation from International Space Station in October 2020. HISUI data are being acquired based on data acquisition requests from HISUI project and principal investigators of HISUI Research Announcement. The total area of acquired HISUI data by December 2021 exceeded 110 M km2and the data are being used in various application studies. HISUI will be operated by FY2023. In this presentation, HISUI's instrument and operation status will be presented together with its early results in terms of geology and greenhouse gas emission.

Hyperspectral Imager Suite (HISUI) was launched in December 2019 and successfully attached to Japan Experiment Module Exposed Facility, International Space Station. Due to data communication problems, its initial check out activities have been delayed, but its first light image was acquired and released in September 2020. HISUI data delivery to Research Users will start in 1Q of Japanese FY2021 (April - June 2021).

HISUI, the Japanese hyperspectral sensor, was launched on December 6, 2019 and the first image was taken on September 4, 2020. The first HISUI calibration was conducted on September 11. Wavelength and radiance calibration were conducted to evaluate characteristic change during the launch process. We found 2.3 nm and 5.5 nm wavelength shifts for VNIR and SWIR, respectively using SRM2025a filter onboard HISUI calibration system. Sensitivity changes during the launch process were less than 1.0 % that is smaller than the radiometric accuracy specifications.

Hyperspectral Imager Suite (HISUI) was launched on Dec. 5, 2019 and successfully attached to Japan Experiment Module Exposed Facility, International Space Station. Currently, initial check out activities are ongoing, and the first light images will be released around August, 2020. The distribution of HISUI Level 1 products will be started in the first half of 2021.

ASTER, which is a multi-band pushbroom sensor onboard Terra, has provided worthful multiband images for approximately 20 years successfully since Terra's launch in 1999. For such a long operation, maintaining accurate radiometric calibration is an important challenge to guarantee the reliability of the satellite products. In April 2003 and August 2017, ASTER observed the Moon (and deepspace) for conducting radiometric calibration with the Moon, which is called as lunar calibration. Through the lunar calibration, temporal variation of relative sensor sensitivity can be measured accurately (the order of 0.1 %), which is reasonably accurate to improve calibration results from other methods. The lunar calibration was performed to ASTER's visible and near infrared bands (Band 1, Band 2, and Band 3N) by comparing the observed brightness with simulated lunar brightness. 3, 5, and 6% sensitivity degradation were observed in Band 1, Band 2, and Band 3N of ASTER, respectively, which are basically consistent with vicarious calibration, though still further discussion is needed for combining calibration results from different methods.

Hyperspectral Imager Suite (HISUI) is a future spaceborne hyperspectral Earth imaging system being developed by Japanese Ministry of Economy, Trade, and Industry (METI). HISUI will be launched and deployed on International Space Station (ISS) for two - three year operation from 2020. Manufacturing and testing of Hyperspectral sensor were completed. Integration and test of HISUI Exposed Payload System is being conducted. HISUI data policy and research announcement as well as synergy with other earth observing instruments onboard ISS are also being discussed.

In radiometric calibration of thermal infrared (TIR) images of the Advanced Spaceborne Thermal Emission and Reflection Radiometer (ASTER), the gain coefficients are given on a day-to-day basis by the prediction functions divided by periods for each detector, regressively derived from the results of long-term calibration (LTC) periodically performed. Since these functions have been updated appropriately, prediction errors on the gain coefficients will not produce significant errors for products-about 0.2 K in temperature(1.2 K at most), and about 0.003 in emissivity (0.009 at most), at 300, 320, and 340 K. If such errors are not negligible in some cases such as cross calibration and snow/ice monitoring, the recalibration equation introduced in the present paper will reduce those errors from an image used. The recalibration coefficients applied to each image can be found at the ASTER TIR Recalibration web site.

Hyperspectral Imager Suite (HISUI) is a future spaceborne hyperspectral Earth imaging system being developed by Japanese Ministry of Economy, Trade, and Industry (METI). HISUI will be launched and deployed on International Space Station (ISS) for two - three year operation from 2020. Manufacturing and testing of HISUI Flight Model were almost completed, and design of HISUI Exposed Payload System is being conducted. HISUI data policy and research announcement as well as synergy with other earth observing instruments onboard ISS are also being discussed.

Hyperspectral Imager Suite (HISUI) is a future spaceborne hyperspectral Earth imaging system being developed by Japanese Ministry of Economy, Trade, and Industry (METI). HISUI will be launched and deployed on International Space Station (ISS) for three year operation from 2019. In FY2016, manufacturing and testing of HISUI Flight Model and design of HISUI Exposed Payload System were conducted. HISUI data policy and research announcement as well as synergy with other earth observing instruments onboard ISS are also being discussed.

Hyperspectral Imager Suite (HISUI) is a future spaceborne hyperspectral Earth imaging system being developed by Japanese Ministry of Economy, Trade, and Industry (METI). HISUI project is currently being promoted by three organizations each of which has a contract with METI together with several scientists from universities and national research institutes. Recently, it was decided to deploy HISUI on International Space Station. The current status of HISUI project will be introduced in the presentation.

The goal of this study was the quantitative mapping of soil salinity from soil reflectance spectroscopy using airborne and/or spaceborne optical data. Generally, the reflectance spectra of agricultural lands contain a mixture of information of soil and vegetation. In addition, the spectra observed at the sensor are affected by the atmosphere and the aspect of topography. In this study, we corrected for atmospheric effects using the Second order derivative algorithm (SODA) method, which canceled the effect of the differences due to topography, and removed the effect of vegetation, to obtain pure soil spectra and estimate the degree of soil salinity. The soil salinity estimation map was found to correspond well to the electrical conductivity (EC) values that were used for validation. These validation results show that this method is effective for the estimation of soil salinity regardless of soil color and topography.

Hyperspectral Imager Suite (HISUI) is a Japanese future spaceborne hyperspectral instrument being developed by Ministry of Economy, Trade, and Industry (METI) and will be launched in 2017 or later. In HISUI project, observation strategy is important especially for hyperspectral sensor, and relationship between the limitations of sensor operation and the planned observation scenarios have to be studied. Using observation coverage simulation program and we estimate progress of observation coverage of image with days after launch. We found that HISUI can make 4 times repeated observations for protected area (20 million km2in the world). And about 70 % of land surface can be observed over 5 years. We also found that the developed rules to avoid cloudy are will improve the area coverage up to 2.4 %.

Hyperspectral Imager Suite (HISUI) is a future spaceborne hyperspectral and multispectral Earth imaging system being developed by Japanese Ministry of Economy, Trade, and Industry (METI). HISUI project is currently being promoted by three organizations each of which has a contract with METI together with several scientists from universities and national research institutes. The current status of HISUI project will be introduced in the presentation.

As mentioned above, the simulation program is useful to investigate observation-planning strategy and rules for improving efficiency of observations.

Hyperspectral Imager Suite (HISUI) is a Japanese future spaceborne hyperspectral instrument [1][2] being developed by Ministry of Economy, Trade, and Industry (METI) and will be launched in 2015 or later. HISUI's operation strategic study is described in this paper. In HISUI project, Operation Mission Planning (OMP) team will make long term and short term strategy of the observation and sensor operation plan. OMP is important for HISUI especially for hyperspectral sensor, and relationship between the limitations of sensor operation and the planned observation scenarios have to be studied. Major factors of the limitations are the combinations of downlink rate, observation time (15 minutes per orbit) and the swath of the sensor (30 km). The achievements of global mapping or repeated observations of specific site need to be simulated precisely before launch [3]. We have prepared daily global high resolution (30 second in latitude and longitude) climate data for the simulation.

The hyperspectral and multispectral remote sensing mission named HISUI is the Japanese next-generation Earth observation project that will be onboard ALOS-3. HISUI will be composed of hyperspectral imager (185 spectral bands in VNIR-SWIR region with 30 m spatial resolution) and multispectral imager (4 spectral bands in VNIR region with 5 m spatial resolution). To expand use of Earth observation data from HISUI, quality assurance and control of data products is indispensable, therefore, the long-term radiometric calibration has a crucial role. The objective of this research is to establish the techniques and develop the plans for conducting the in-flight radiometric calibration of HISUI with high frequency, reliability, and stability, based on the traditional in-flight radiometric calibration for multispectral sensors.

The Advanced Spaceborne Thermal Emission and Reflection Radiometer (ASTER) Global Digital Elevation Model (GDEM) was released to the public in My 2009. The GDEM version 2, currently under development, is reproduced using an updated algorithm and contains new ASTER data observed after September 2008. Validation study of the trial and beta version of GDEM version 2 was carried out to investigate its characteristics such as geolocation error, elevation error and horizontal resolution. The results of the study confirmed that elevation offset and horizontal resolution will be greatly improved in version 2 and the enhanced horizontal resolution will serve to reduce the standard deviation of elevation and geolocation error.