Infrared Spectral Imaging Radiometer

ISIR,   the Infrared Spectaral Imaging Radiometer is a Hitchhiker (HH) payload sponsored by NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center along with other government agencies and private industriy. ISIR seeks to further the development of Infrared cloud observation science and technology. The goal is more compact, low-cost, rugged, and more flexible cloud radiometers with enchanced science capabilites. ISIR provides an in-space test for advanced imaging technology with microbolometer warm focal plane array detectors. ISIR measures the infrared brightness temperature of cloud tops as well as the Earth's surface at a resolution of 250 meters in four wavelength bands operating in conjunction with the Shuttle Laser Altimeter (SLA-02), for a new type of cloud science observation through combined active and passive remote sensing.

For further details concerning ISIR, download or view the 1998 SPIE Paper by James Spinhirne et. al.




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