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An optical image from the DESIS instrument aboard the International Space Station. The image shows the city of Tampa, Florida, part of the state's Emerald Coast in September 2023.
ISS DESIS image shows Tampa, part of Florida's Emerald Coast along the Gulf of America taken in September of 2023, about a year prior to damage caused by Hurricane Milton.
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Webinar 7/22: CSDA Program Vendor Focus - Teledyne Brown Engineering

NASA's Earth Science Division (ESD) established the CSDA program to explore the potential of commercial satellite data in advancing the agency's Earth science research and application objectives. The program aims to identify, assess, and acquire data from commercial providers, which may offer a cost-effective means of supplementing Earth observations collected by NASA, other U.S. Government agencies, and international collaborators.

During this NASA CSDA program vendor webinar, speakers will provide a detailed introduction to Teledyne Brown Engineering and its capabilities, focusing on the DLR Earth Sensing Imaging Spectrometer (DESIS) instrument hosted on the International Space Station (ISS) Multi-User System for Earth Sensing (MUSES) platform. Presenters will walk participants through the complete workflow for discovering, accessing, and using DESIS hyperspectral data products, emphasizing its high spectral resolution, wide spectral coverage, extensive archive dating back to late 2018, and its usefulness for applications such as vegetation monitoring, water quality analysis, mineral mapping, and detecting environmental change.

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