Aircraft operator
| Name | Flemish Institute for Technological Research |
| Acronym | VITO |
| Country | Belgium |
| Website | http://www.apex-esa.org/ |
| Contact | BOMANS Bart |
Main activities
APEX is an airborne (dispersive push broom) imaging spectrometer developed by a Swiss-Belgian consortium on behalf of ESA. It is intended as a simulator and a calibration and validation device for future spaceborne hyperspectral imagers. Furthermore, APEX is an advanced scientific instrument for the European remote sensing community, recording hyperspectral data in approximately 300 bands in the wavelength range between 350 nm and 2500 nm and at a spatial ground resolution of 2 m to 5 m.
APEX will be available to the user community form early 2009 onwards.
Facilities
| Data processing |
APEX disposes of its own Processing an Archiving Facility. |
| Training | N/A |
| Gound infrastructure |
At VITO, meeting rooms are available for preparatory and post-flight meetings. |
| Additional services |
VITO also offers equipment that can be rented for ground and validation measurements in support of flight campaigns. |
| Aircraft contact | N/A |
| Instruments contact | BOMANS Bart |
| Calibration facilities contact | N/A |