BackForwardInstrument:  HISUI 

Instrument details
Acronym HISUI
Full name Hyperspectral Imager Suite
Purpose Remote sensing of oil/gas/mineral resource and agriculture, forestry, and coastal issues
Short description Hyperspectral VIS/NIR/SW spectroradiometer; 185 channels in the range 0.4-2.5 μm with spectral resolution of 10-12.5 nm
Background Developed by Japanese Ministry of Economy, Trade, and Industry (METI)
Scanning Technique Pushbroom, swath 20 km
Resolution 20 m x 30 m
Coverage / Cycle About three months for the latitude range limited by the ISS orbital inclination (51.6°).
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Providing Agency METI
Instrument Maturity Flown on an R&D satellite
Utilization Period: 2020 to 2025
Last update: 2021-06-22
Detailed characteristics
Satellites this instrument is flying on

Note: a red tag indicates satellites no longer operational, a green tag indicates operational satellites, a blue tag indicates future satellites

Instrument classification
  • Earth observation instrument
  • Passive optical radiometer or spectrometer
  • High resolution optical imager
WIGOS Subcomponents
  • Subcomponent 1
  • Narrow-band or hyperspectral imagers
  • Hyperspectral imager (for vegetation)
Mission objectives
Primary mission objectives
  • Biomass
  • Fraction of Absorbed PAR (FAPAR)
  • Fraction of vegetated land
  • Leaf Area Index (LAI)
  • Normalised Difference Vegetation Index (NDVI)
  • Vegetation type
Evaluation of Measurements