Potential Commercial Uses Imaging interferometers may be based on ground, aircraft, or satellite platforms and used for the same type of observations as conventional imaging spectrometers, but where weight, size, and design parameter restrictions limit the use of conventional dispersion-based sensors. Imaging interferometers have remote sensing applications for land, ocean, or atmosphere observations such as agricultural or land use assessments, environmental monitoring, and mineral exploration or mapping. They also may be used for space and astronomical missions. If the IDL code is translated to an efficient computer language and integrated with the components of a comprehensive data processing and visualization package that includes a user interface, a commercially viable software product for imaging interferometer data may be produced. Interferograms are resolved spatially in one dimension at the detector plane.
Spatial information is obtained in the orthogonal dimension.
The method exploits these properties by carrying out a sequence of reversible transformations which effectively discriminate and separate the detector's systematic noise from the desired signal. Technology Commercialization Status NASA, Ames Research Center, currently seeks to license this technology. This invention was developed by Dr. Philip D. Hammer of NASA, Ames Research Center.