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Green et al. 2023

Green, R.O., N. Mahowald, D.R. Thompson, C. Ung, P. Brodrick, R. Pollock, M. Bennett, S. Lundeen, M. Joyce, W. Olson-Duvall, B. Oaida, C. Bradley, E. Diaz, R. Clark, S. Vannan, G. Swayze, R. Kokaly, P. Ginoux, R.L. Miller, G. Okin, C. Pérez García-Pando, B. Ehlmann, O. Kalashnikova, T.H. Painter, V. Realmuto, D. Chadwick, E. Ben-Dor, D.H. Pearlshtien, L. Guanter, B. Phillips, K. Reath, A. Thorpe, L. Shaw, A. Keebler, F. Ochoa, K. Grant, A. Sen, R. Duren, V. Obiso, M. Gonçalves-Ageitos, and Y. Huang, 2023: Performance and early results from the Earth Surface Mineral Dust Source Investigation (EMIT) imaging spectroscopy mission. In 2023 IEEE Aerospace Conference, IEEE, on-line, doi:10.1109/AERO55745.2023.10115851.

The Earth Surface Mineral Dust Source Investigation (EMIT) acquires new observations of the Earth from a state-of-the-art, optically fast F/1.8 visible to short wavelength infrared imaging spectrometer with high signal-to-noise ratio and excellent spectroscopic uniformity. EMIT was launched to the International Space Station from Cape Canaveral, Florida, on July 14, 2022 local time. The EMIT instrument is the latest in a series of more than 30 imaging spectrometers and testbeds developed at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory, beginning with the Airborne Imaging Spectrometer that first flew in 1982. EMIT's science objectives use the spectral signatures of minerals observed across the Earth's arid and semi-arid lands containing dust sources to update the soil composition of advanced Earth System Models (ESMs) to better understand and reduce uncertainties in mineral dust aerosol radiative forcing at the local, regional, and global scale, now and in the future. EMIT has begun to collect and deliver high-quality mineral composition determinations for the arid land regions of our planet. Over 1 billion high-quality mineral determinations are expected over the course of the one-year nominal science mission. Currently, detailed knowledge of the composition of the Earth's mineral dust source regions is uncertain and traced to less than 5,000 surface sample mineralogical analyses. The development of the EMIT imaging spectrometer instrumentation was completed successfully, despite the severe impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic. The EMIT Science Data System is complete and running with the full set of algorithms required. These tested algorithms are open source and will be made available to the broader community. These include calibration to measured radiance, atmospheric correction to surface reflectance, mineral composition determination, aggregation to ESM resolution, and ESM runs to address the science objectives. In this paper, the instrument characteristics, ground calibration, in-orbit performance, and early science results are reported.

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@inproceedings{gr02210s,
  author={Green, R. O. and Mahowald, N. and Thompson, D. R. and Ung, C. and Brodrick, P. and Pollock, R. and Bennett, M. and Lundeen, S. and Joyce, M. and Olson-Duvall, W. and Oaida, B. and Bradley, C. and Diaz, E. and Clark, R. and Vannan, S. and Swayze, G. and Kokaly, R. and Ginoux, P. and Miller, R. L. and Okin, G. and Pérez García-Pando, C. and Ehlmann, B. and Kalashnikova, O. and Painter, T. H. and Realmuto, V. and Chadwick, D. and Ben-Dor, E. and Pearlshtien, D. H. and Guanter, L. and Phillips, B. and Reath, K. and Thorpe, A. and Shaw, L. and Keebler, A. and Ochoa, F. and Grant, K. and Sen, A. and Duren, R. and Obiso, V. and Gonçalves-Ageitos, M. and Huang, Y.},
  title={Performance and early results from the Earth Surface Mineral Dust Source Investigation (EMIT) imaging spectroscopy mission},
  booktitle={2023 IEEE Aerospace Conference},
  year={2023},
  pages={on--line},
  publisher={IEEE},
  doi={10.1109/AERO55745.2023.10115851},
}

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AU  - Ung, C.
AU  - Brodrick, P.
AU  - Pollock, R.
AU  - Bennett, M.
AU  - Lundeen, S.
AU  - Joyce, M.
AU  - Olson-Duvall, W.
AU  - Oaida, B.
AU  - Bradley, C.
AU  - Diaz, E.
AU  - Clark, R.
AU  - Vannan, S.
AU  - Swayze, G.
AU  - Kokaly, R.
AU  - Ginoux, P.
AU  - Miller, R. L.
AU  - Okin, G.
AU  - Pérez García-Pando, C.
AU  - Ehlmann, B.
AU  - Kalashnikova, O.
AU  - Painter, T. H.
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AU  - Pearlshtien, D. H.
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AU  - Reath, K.
AU  - Thorpe, A.
AU  - Shaw, L.
AU  - Keebler, A.
AU  - Ochoa, F.
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