Hyperspectral Imager Suite (HISUI) is a spaceborne multispectral/hyperspectral system being developed by the Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry (METI) of Japan. It consists of a high spatial resolution multispectral spectrometer that collects data at 5 m ground sampling distance with wide 90 km swath and a high spectral resolution hyperspectral spectrometer that provides physical properties of the surface materials with 185 bands. Critical Design Review (CDR) will be held in late 2012. HISUI is expected to be launched in 2015 or later. For the ground segment, designing of the overall system and algorithms for data processing are under development. Automated tool to generate the observation schedule is also developed to best accommodate the data acquisition requests with limited observation resources.
