HawkEye: CubeSat SeaWiFS update

Carl Schueler; Alan Holmes

doi:10.1117/12.2237374

19 September 2016 HawkEye: CubeSat SeaWiFS update

Carl Schueler, Alan Holmes

Proceedings Volume 9978, CubeSats and NanoSats for Remote Sensing; 99780H (2016) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2237374
Event: SPIE Optical Engineering + Applications, 2016, San Diego, California, United States

Abstract

The SeaHawk 3U CubeSat program is funded by the Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation of San Francisco, and managed by John Morrison of the University of North Carolina-Wilmington (UNC-W). Cloudland Instruments is developing HawkEye for SeaHawk. HawkEye is a multispectral ocean color imager of SeaWiFS quality with 120 meter nadir resolution from an orbit altitude of 540 km to provide observation of sub-mesoscale variability for insights into poorly understood mixing dynamics. 120 meter imagery improves ability, relative to SeaWiFS 1km resolution, to monitor fjords, estuaries, coral reefs and other near-shore environments where anthropogenic stresses are often most acute and where there are considerable security and commercial interests. The optics, filters, and arrays comprise a cube 10 cm on a side to fit a 3U CubeSat manufactured by ClydeSpace of Glasgow Scotland, and provide a 350 km swath cross-track.

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Carl Schueler and Alan Holmes "HawkEye: CubeSat SeaWiFS update", Proc. SPIE 9978, CubeSats and NanoSats for Remote Sensing, 99780H (19 September 2016); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2237374

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