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The Airborne Visible/InfraRed Imaging Spectrometer - 5th Generation (AVIRIS-5) is an imaging spectrometer developed at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) and built for flight on NASA airborne platforms. It is the latest version of NASA AVIRIS spectrometers, following AVIRIS-C, AVIRIS-NG, and AVIRIS-3. 

AVIRIS-5 has 0.5 to 13 meter ground-sampling spatial resolution and is compatible with the ER-2, B-200, Gulfstream, and other airborne platforms. The spectrometer is identical in design to the Earth Surface Mineral Dust Source Investigation (EMIT) spectrometer that flies on the International Space Station (ISS). 

AVIRIS-5 supports science and applications in the fields of critical and economic minerals, agriculture, wildfire (fuel, burning, smoke, severity, recovery), aquaculture, forestry, water resources, hazards, manmade materials, and more.

AVIRIS-5 embarked on its inaugural flight in May 2025.

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Instrument Type

Spectrometer/Radiometer

Instrument Subtype

Imaging Spectrometer/Radiometer

Specifications

Resolution

Spatial

40-degree field of view over 1239 spatial pixels; 0.5 to 13 meters ground sampling spatial resolution depending on flight altitude

Spectral

380-2500 nm solar-reflected spectrum with 5 nm spectral sampling

Platforms

Related Data Centers/Projects

ORNL DAAC

NASA's Oak Ridge National Laboratory Distributed Active Archive Center specializes in data and information relevant to terrestrial biogeochemistry, ecology, and environmental processes.
AVIRIS Facility Instruments

NASA's Airborne Visible/InfraRed Imaging Spectrometer (AVIRIS) Facility Instruments project utilizes high-performance imaging spectrometers to collect high resolution hyperspectral imaging data, enabling a wide range of research and applications to identify, measure, and monitor the Earth's surface and atmosphere.

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