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ESA's miniature Earth observer put to many uses

4 May 2004

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Proba's CHRIS image of Italy's Stromboli volcano. It was acquired by the Proba instrument on 3 December 2003. Stromboli is one of the Aeolian Islands, and stands about 900 metres above the level of the Tyrrhenian Sea.

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Proba-1, Project for On Board Autonomy, demonstrates the potential and feasibility of small satellites for advanced scientific and Earth Observation missions.

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Looking at life on land

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Proba-1 CHRIS instrument pictures Belgium

CHRIS image of the forested area around Redu in Belgium. The ESA ground station in Redu is used for communication with, and control of, the Proba spacecraft.

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CHRIS users from Europe, Australia and China gather at ESRIN for the Second Proba/CHRIS Workshop in April 2004. The hyperspectral multi-angular imager's combination of abilties has aroused the interests of scientific users worldwide.

Working over water

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San Francisco seen from PROBA-1’s CHRIS instrument.

The Project for On-Board Autonomy (Proba) is a technology demonstration mission of the European Space Agency.

CHRIS is a push-broom spectrometer capable of imaging up to 200 spectral bands in the visible range. Together with the scanning and manoeuvring capabilities of the spacecraft it supports Bidirectional Reflectance Distribution Function (BRDF) measurements used in land, sea and atmospheric observations.

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Instrument : Compact High Resolution Imaging Spectrometer (CHRIS)
Date of Acquisition : 15-06-2002
Instrument Features : 3 bands (466nm, 543nm, 641nm) image, 15 m spatial resolution, 768x1010 pixels

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Joining forces for fire mapping

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A CHRIS image of France's Var region showing fire scarring west of the town of Cogolin. Acquired 3 September 2003.

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Aftermath of disaster

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Proba image of Arles flood zone in France

Proba's CHRIS image of the French town of Arles, acquired on 7 December 2003 during flooding that swamped the northern part of the settlement under one metre of water. The image was acquired following activation of the Charter on Space and Major Disasters.

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About Proba

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Acquired 30 July 2003, this Proba shows the China's Three Gorges dam. The Project for On-Board Autonomy (Proba) is a technology demonstration mission of the European Space Agency.
CHRIS is a push-broom spectrometer capable of imaging up to 200 spectral bands in the visible range. Together with the scanning and manoeuvring capabilities of the spacecraft it supports Bidirectional Reflectance Distribution Function (BRDF) measurements used in land, sea and atmospheric observations.

Technical Information:
Instrument : Compact High Resolution Imaging Spectrometer (CHRIS)
Date of Acquisition : 30-07-2003
Instrument Features : 3 bands (466nm, 543nm, 641nm) image, 15 m spatial resolution, 768x1010 pixels

Credits: ESA

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An artist's impression of Spectra

Aftermath of California inferno China’s Three Gorges Dam CHRIS/Proba takes lead in Spanish campaign to help hyperspectral sensor development Meet CHRIS - the little camera that takes big pictures Pinpoint accuracy with the Proba camera