European Facility For Airborne Research Dec. 5, 2025, 07:50
| Name | APEX |
| Acronym | APEX |
| Manufacturer | Belgian-Swiss industrial consortium on behalf of ESA |
| Manufacturer website | http://www.apex-esa.org/ |
| Operated by | VITO |
| Operated onboard |
| Name | Imaging Spectrometer |
| Acronym | Imaging Spectrometer |
| Measured parameter | Radiance Spectra |
| Operating principle | |
| Measurement(s) | Hyperspectral |
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| Weight | 300.0 |
| Operating mode | Remote sensing |
| Range | APEX spectral range: 380 -2500 nm |
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| Additional information |
| Access | APEX is has been formally accepted by ESA in December 2010 and is now available to the user community. |
| Could also fit on any aircraft having the following characteristics | |
| General description |
| Title | Author | Type | Related |
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| Advanced Radiometry Measurements and Earth Science Applications with the Airborne Prism Experiment (APEX) | HUENI Andreas, ITTEN Klaus, KNEUBUELHER Mathias, MEULEMAN Koen, SCHAEPMAN Michael | Publication |
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| Assessing the performance of two unsupervised dimensionality reduction techniques on hyperspectral APEX data for high resolution urban land-cover mapping | CANTERS Frank, DEMARCHI Luca | Publication |
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