HyperScout 2
cosine (Berlin Adlershof)
Compact hyperspectral imaging instrument combining VNIR hyperspectral imaging with thermal infrared channels — Intel Myriad 2 onboard AI chip, first flown 2020.
Technical specifications
- First launch
- 2020
- Orbit
- 540 km
- GSD (channel 1)
- 75 m
- GSD (channel 2)
- 490 m
- Swath
- 310 x 150 km
- Spectral range (channel 1)
- 400-1000 nm
- Spectral range (channel 2)
- 8000-14000 nm
- Spectral bands
- 45 (channel 1), 3 (channel 2)
- Mass
- 1.7 kg
- Volume
- 2 L
- Power
- 12 W
- Lead time
- 3 months (build to order)
About
HyperScout 2 is cosine’s enhanced-generation hyperspectral imager for space, developed based on customer feedback from the original HyperScout. It uses Intel Ireland’s Myriad 2 AI chip onboard to boost data-processing performance for hyperspectral imagery, and adds a thermal infrared channel developed with ESA’s Earth Observation Programme. It provides hyperspectral imaging in the visible/near-infrared to analyze Earth composition plus three thermal infrared bands for temperature retrieval. cosine sells HyperScout as a product to commercial and research customers, who can develop their own software applications on top of it.
Documentation
No public datasheet yet — request the datasheet / ICD from the supplier.
