REMOTE SENSING OF THE EARTH FROM SPACE

Sensing the atmosphere and surface of Earth from orbiting satellites is a growing field for scientists in military as well as environmental applications.  Important information can be gleaned from images that are taken across the electromagnetic spectrum, with visible and IR being the most important.  Researchers in this field learn about geography, positions of military installations and targets, and about the atmosphere of Earth and how it changes.  Polarization is an important piece of additional information above and beyond physical images and spectroscopic information.

Hinds PEMs have been ruggedized to fly in aircraft and spacecraft to support polarization imaging studies.  In one project incorporating a Hinds PEM, we have achieved TRL 7 in the “Technology Readiness Level”  scale defined by NASA.  Hinds PEMs can be custom fitted to many extreme environments.

SUGGESTED PRODUCTS

PEMs

FURTHER READING:

David J. Diner, Ab Davis, Tom Cunningham, et.al., Use of photoelastic modulators for high-accuracy spectropolarimetric imaging of aerosols, Jet Propulsion Laboratory, National Aeronautics and Space Administration, (26 June 2006).

JPL and Hinds Instruments: Celebrating Nearly Two Decades of Collaborative Design to Put PEMs in Space Under NASA Projects

MAIA Publications

Rainer M. E. Illing “Design and development of the PolZero Time Domain Polarization Scrambler”, Proc. SPIE 7461, Polarization Science and Remote Sensing IV, 746104 (11 August 2009).

Contact us for any custom ruggedization requests.