SCIEN Seminar presents "The Extreme Science of Building High-Performing Compact Cameras for Space Applications"
A thickening flock of earth-observing satellites blankets the planet. Over 700 were launched during the past 10 years, and more than 2,200 additional ones are scheduled to go up within the next 10 years. To add to that, year on year, satellite platforms and instruments are being miniaturized to improve cost-efficiency with the same expectations of high spatial and spectral resolutions. But what does it take to build imaging systems that are high-performing in the harsh environment of space but cost-efficient and compact at the same time? This talk will touch upon the technical issues associated with the design, fabrication, and characterisation of such extremely high-performing but still compact and cost-efficient space cameras taking the example of the imager that Pixxel has built as part of its earth-imaging satellite constellations plans.