Earth Observation Payloads

Surrey has pioneered the use of commercial off-the-shelf (COTS) optics for space imaging, producing stunning results at exceptionally low cost. Surrey is able to offer state-of-the art digital imagers for a range of remote sensing applications.

CHRIS Imager

A highly versatile hyperspectral system with more than 7 years' inflight heritage, offering in-orbit programmable selection of spectral bands location, bandwidth and ground sampling distance. In orbit since 2001 and provides the highest spatial resolution of any hyperspectral system, attracting a substantial international user community.

CHRIS datasheet
 

VHRI 250 Imager

Compact, very high-resolution, low-power pushbroom imager. Provides high-resolution imagery in 5 wavebands, using five linear detector arrays separated in the along-track direction in the common focal plane of a telescope.

VHRI 250 datasheet

Wide Swath DMC Multi Spectral Imager

Multispectral pushbroom imager with effective sensor length of 27,500 pixels for each of its three separate waveband channels. At an orbital height of 686 km this gives a 600 km swath width for each image.

DMC MSI datasheet