Hyperion

Hyperion flew on Earth Observing-1 (EO-1) satellite from 2000 to 2017. The satellite also had the multispectral ALI instrument, which contributed to the development of Landsat 8.
Hyperion provides a high resolution hyperspectral imager capable of resolving 242 dataspectral bands (from 0.4 to 2.5 µm) with a 30-meter resolution. The instrument can image a 7.5 km by 100 km land area per image, and provide detailed spectral mapping across all channels with high radiometric accuracy.
Bands B001-B007, B058-B076, and B225-242 are not calibrated, and have no valid values, so 198 bands have useful data.

Scene geometry, from NASA

The Hyperion hyperspectral sensor has very many bands with small bandwiths compared to the multispectral systems.
Log scale for wavelength, so the Hyperion bands appear to get closer.

ASTER, ALI, Hyperion all have similar pixel to ETM+ (except for the pan band)
MODIS has much larger pixel sizes.

Image source, NASA

USGS Professional paper 1386A

Hyperion image of the west side of the Sheep Range in southern Nevada.

Left, band 53
Middle, false color. There are multiple choices for RGB, since there is not just one red, green, or blue.
Right, true color. There are multiple choices for RGB.

The image is 1691x7071pixels, but because of the narrow swath in the descending orbit, most is missing data. You will get much speedier response with a subset of the data.

Open hyperspectral imagery

Getting archived Hyperion data

https://eo1.usgs.gov/documents/Hyperion_L1G_EO1-DFCB.v.1.pdf
From EarthExplorer, under EO-1
Get L1Gst Product in GeoTiff format, in the additional criteria
Path and Row cover a large area, and each image covers only a very small part of it
Unzip files. Use the option to unzip into the current directory, which will put each into its own folder becasue the zips actually zip up a folder.
When opening, you need to select the directory with a name like "EO1H0410342015285110K0" and not the one that ends with "1GST"

Other hyperspectral imagery

References

https://www.grss-ieee.org/wp-content/uploads/2014/12/2014_07_ISIS_Session1_Mission/Middleton_EO-1_IGARSS_2014_presentation_716.pdf

Last revision 6/27/2022