SPECIM Releases New Sensor



by Scott Kesselman



SPECIM is introducing its AisaFENIX 1K, the first commercially available full spectrum hyperspectral sensor with 1024 spatial pixels, at INTERGEO 2014 in Germany.



The new model will reduce flight costs by up to 60 percent, according to a company press release, by limiting the number of flight lines required.



“Covering a 10 kilometer square at one meter GSD [ground sample distance], 30 percent side lap, 120 knots ground speed and three-minute turns required three hours, 46 minutes with the previous model of AisaFENIX,” says SPECIM’s Sales Manager Petri Nygrén. “With the AisaFENIX 1K, this time is reduced to one hour, 29 minutes, 40 percent of the previous.”



The sensor will be useful in many applications including environmental monitoring, forestry, vegetation mapping, geology, law enforcement and defense.