Geosynchronous Ocean-color Hyperspectral Imager

This paper describes recent design studies of a Geosynchronous Ocean-color and land Imager (GOI) (pronounced “joy”). GOI would provide hyperspectral data with ~300 m spatial resolution at nadir. Contiguous high SNR spectral samples at a ~5 nm interval would be collected in each spatial resolution element across the 400-2500 nm spectral region. A range of possible flight implementation options exist for the GOI spectrometer, including flying it onboard a mission-dedicated spacecraft or as a supplemental payload onboard a communications satellite or possibly as an instrument of opportunity onboard a future GOES satellite.