Teledyne Brown Engineering operates the DLR (German Aerospace Center) Earth Sensing Imaging Spectrometer (DESIS). DESIS is a push broom, hyperspectral sensor currently installed on the Multi-User System for Earth Sensing (MUSES) platform on the International Space Station. DESIS has the capability of recording hyperspectral image data using 235 closely arranged channels spanning visual to infrared wavelengths (between 400 and 1,000 nanometers) with a spatial resolution of 30 m while the space station is in an orbital altitude of 400 km.
All members of the U.S. Government have access to DESIS data and imagery for scientific use.
Requesting DESIS data:
- Contact CSDA and provide a name, email address, and other pertinent information (grant number, contract number, etc.) for data access approval and accept Teledyne Brown Engineering’s EULA
- We expect by September 2024 data acquired by CSDA will be available online.
Data products and derivatives must contain copyright markings as specified below, where YYYY is the year of the image acquisition.
- For DESIS data: “© Teledyne Brown Engineering, Inc., YYYY. All Rights Reserved.”
- For derivatives: "Includes copyrighted material of Teledyne Brown Engineering, Inc., All Rights Reserved.”
- A joint copyright notice may be used as appropriate
Authorized users should send Teledyne Brown Engineering a courtesy copy of any publications that include the downloaded data.
To help us identify your publications, we request that when you publish using these data, please include the following acknowledgment:
"This work utilized data made available through the NASA Commercial SmallSat Data Acquisition (CSDA) program."