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2025年10月16日On May 9, 2018, China successfully launched the world’s first land atmospheric comprehensive observation Gaofen-5 hyperspectral observation satellite, marking the entry of China’s space spectral remote sensing technology into the era of high quantification applications and ushering in a new era of spaceborne hyperspectral technology.
This satellite, equipped with the Wide Spectrum Wide Width Hyperspectral Camera (AHSI), acquires 330 spectral channel data from the Earth’s surface at a speed of 7 kilometers per second at an altitude of 700 kilometers in space, equivalent to the data acquisition capability of 2000 traditional spectrometers with one camera. It provides strong support for ecological environment monitoring, resource exploration, and climate change response in China.
On the morning of May 23, 2024, the “power of resources” media trip jointly sponsored by the Cyberspace Office of the Chinese Academy of Sciences and the Shanghai Science and Technology Work Party Committee entered the Shanghai Institute of Technical Physics. Decrypt the background behind the birth of the world’s most advanced spaceborne visible shortwave infrared hyperspectral camera, which was born in Shanghai.
How to turn the hyperspectral smart eye into a foolproof aerospace product is the last obstacle facing the team. The team focuses on product engineering, and after years of repeated polishing in technology and process, has successively passed camera mechanics, thermal vacuum, thermal balance, vacuum calibration EMC、 Rigorous testing and assessment of multiple aerospace products, including magnetism, whole star mechanics, and thermal vacuum. The entire development process resulted in over 5000 technical reports and more than 40000 drawings.
After nearly 20 years of arduous exploration, we have finally broken through the core technological bottleneck of “two widths and five heights” (wide spectrum, wide width, high spectrum, high space, high radiation resolution) internationally, and successfully developed the world’s first wide spectrum and wide width hyperspectral camera, achieving excellent performance in orbit and attracting widespread attention from international peers.
This top-notch instrument has achieved excellent performance through the use of multiple new technologies, “said the project leader of NASA’s” SNOOPI “program. At the same time, this achievement will be included in the key technical standard project of the “Science and Technology Innovation Action Plan” in the “14th Five Year Plan” for building a globally influential science and technology innovation center in Shanghai in 2023.
From being 10 years behind foreign countries to significantly leading in technological indicators compared to the same period abroad, the team has spent 20 years repaying Shanghai Science and Technology, and that “rising star” has become the well deserved “China’s Space Insight”.
Up to now, there are four hyperspectral cameras of the same type working in space. In terms of mineral resource investigation, compared with relying on foreign multispectral satellite data, the identification results of mineral types and alteration combinations have increased from more than 10 to more than 40, with an accuracy rate of over 90%, significantly shortening the exploration cycle. In the field of carbon emission monitoring, this achievement is regarded as a representative instrument for the next generation of methane monitoring, which strongly supports the implementation of China’s major strategy of “carbon peak”.