<title>Multispectral Thermal Imager mission overview</title>

Abstract

The Multispectral Thermal Imager (MTI) is a research and development project sponsored by the Department of Energy and executed by Sandia and Los Alamos National Laboratories and the Savannah River Technology Center. Other participants include the U. S. Air Force, universities, and many industrial partners. The MTI mission is to demonstrate the efficacy of highly accurate multispectral imaging for passive characterization of industrial facilities and related environmental impacts from space. MTI provides simultaneous data for atmospheric characterization at high spatial resolution. Additionally, MTI has applications to environmental monitoring and other civilian applications. The mission is based in endto-end modeling of targets, signatures, atmospheric effects, the space sensor, and analysis techniques to form a balanced, self-consistent mission. The MTI satellite nears completion, and is scheduled for launch in late 1999. This paper describes the MTI mission, development of desired system attributes, some trade studies, schedule, and overall plans for data acquisition and analysis. This effort drives the sophisticated payload and advanced calibration systems, which are the overall subject of the first session at this conference, as well as the data processing and some of the analysis tools that will be described in the second segment.

Satellite remote sensing of aerosols generated by the Island of Nauru

“…The data used in this study were acquired by the MTI [ Szymanski and Weber , 2005; Weber et al , 1999; Kay et al , 1999; Weber , 2000], a Department of Energy (DOE) research satellite. MTI is a multispectral push broom imager with 15 bands from the visible to the thermal infrared (see Figure 3).…”

Incorporating Spatial Contiguity into the Design of a Support Vector Machine Classifier

“…The studies reported in this paper use a reduced number of relatively wide spectral bands. This reduction in the number of spectral bands was performed to match the bands of a new remote sensing satellite called the Multispectral Thermal imager (MTI) [5] tral filter functions to produce simulated MTI data. This 10-band simulated data was also used in Ref.…”

Determination of the spatial variability of temperature and moisture near a tropical Pacific island with MTI satellite images

“…1,2 The images are also being used for other earth science applications. Calibration and testing of the MTI imager has frequently made use of instrumented ground sites such as DOE's ARM (Atmospheric Radiation Monitoring) locations in the Southern Great Plains and the Tropical Western Pacific (TWP).…”