Some Results of a MOS-1 Airborne Verfication Experiment - Multispectral Electronic Self-Scanning Radiometer (MESSR)

The Marine Observation Satellite-1 (MOS-1) was succeessfully launched from Tanegashima Space Center, NASDA by N-II rocket on February 19, 1987. In order to develop the distortion correction methods for MOS-1 data and the evaluation methods for the MOS-1 earth observation system, NASDA conducted an MOS-1 air-borne verification experiment in Kanto and Hokkaido in Japan in 1984 and 1985 by using three airborne sensors equivalent in performance to MOS-1 sensors in collaboration with many related agencies. The air-borne MESSR is a multispectral electronic self-scanning radiometer developed by modifying an engineering model (EM) of the MOS-1 MESSR, which is capable of observing in visible and near-infrared wavelengths with CCD detector elements. In this paper, some results from the airborne MESSR are presented.