General
Mission Pages
The General Mission section contains information that
spans both the the EO-1 Baseline
Mission and the
Extended Mission.
Use the section navigation links
to the left to navigate through the General Mission
information.
EO-1 Mission
The Earth Observing-1 (EO-1) mission, as part of the
New Millennium Program (NMP), developed and validated
a number of instrument and spacecraft bus breakthrough
technologies designed to enable the development of future
earth imaging observatories that will have a significant
increase in performance while also having reduced cost
and mass.
More specifically, EO-1 has validated a multispectral
instrument that is a significant improvement over the
Landsat 7 ETM+ instrument; has validated a hyperspectral
land imaging instrument and the unique science that
can be performed with hyperspectral data; and has validated
the ability of a low-spatial/high-spectral resolution
imager that can correct systematic errors in the apparent
surface reflectances caused by atmospheric effects,
primarily water vapor. The breakthrough spacecraft bus
technologies that were validated have been made available
for future missions.
An important purpose of this website is to make available
the information from the EO-1 Final Technology and Science Validation Report.
Information from that report is divided
up throughout this site in the subpages of the major
headings of Extended
Mission, General
Mission and Baseline
Mission.
The Extended Mission section of the
website describes the expanded public access to EO-1 image data and the transformation
of the mission into an advanced development sensor web
and testbed activity.
The Baseline
Mission and General
Mission sections describe the advanced
instrument and spacecraft bus technologies; how the
technology and science objectives were validated;
the validation results and conclusions; what lessons were learned; mission
"Firsts"; what Technology and Infusion has occurred; overall mission conclusions; and
an extensive list of publications, presentations, and
articles spawned by the mission.
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