Development of compact and low distortion imaging spectrometer for Mars missions and airborne aerial vehicles

The paper describes a joint development of a compact and low distortion imaging spectrometer system for future Mars sample return mission and unmanned aerial vehicles under the collaboration between the Canadian Space Agency and Defence Research and Development Canada. A Dyson design was selected as the imaging spectrometer due to its compactness, high optical output and low distortion. After briefly describing the requirement of the imaging spectrometer system, the preliminary results of the design of the Dyson spectrometer were reported.