FLEX/S3 Tandem Mission Performance Analysis and Requirements Consolidation Study
Programme Reference
64
Country
Spain
Start Date
2011
End Date
2014
Programme: Discovery Prime Contractor: UNIVERSIDAD POLITECNICA DE VALENCIA
Description
While most Earth Observation missions based on passive optical methods are intended to measure the light “reflected” by the surface, FLEX uses a completely innovative approach based on the measurement of the light “emitted” as fluorescence by terrestrial vegetation. Such fluorescence emission by vegetation has never been measured from space, which makes FLEX a true Explorer mission providing a type of information never available before.
• Application domain: Generic Technologies
• Initial TRL: TRL N/A
• Target TRL: TRL N/A
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