Teledyne Brown Engineering operates the German Aerospace Center Earth Sensing Imaging Spectrometer (DESIS). DESIS is a push broom, hyperspectral instrument 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.

Authorized Data Use and Users

All members of the U.S. Government and researchers funded by the U.S. Government have access to DESIS data and imagery.

End User License Agreement

USG EULA

Obtaining Data

To request access to DESIS data:

• Contact NASA's Commercial Satellite Data Acquisition (CSDA) program and provide a name, email address, and other pertinent information (grant number, contract number, etc.) for data access approval and accept Umbra’s EULA

Copyright

Data products and derivatives must contain the following copyright markings (where YYYY is the year of the image acquisition):

• For DESIS data: “© Umbra, Inc., YYYY. All Rights Reserved.”
• For derivatives: "Includes copyrighted material of Umbra, Inc., All Rights Reserved.”
• A joint copyright notice may be used as appropriate

Authorized users should send Umbra a courtesy copy of any publications that include the downloaded data.

CSDA Acknowledgment

To help CSDA identify your publications, we request that you include the following acknowledgment when publishing work created using these data:

"This work utilized data made available through the NASA Commercial Satellite Data Acquisition (CSDA) program."